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The Robert Redford baseball movie The Natural (1985) was filmed at Buffalo’s War Memorial Stadium—nicknamed The Rockpile. Originally home to the Buffalo Bills football team, it later hosted the Buffalo Bisons.

first appeared: 9/8/2002

Howe Caverns in Schoharie County has been visited by more than 14 million people since it opened in 1929, ranking as the second most-visited natural attraction in the state. (Niagara Falls is first.)

first appeared: 9/1/2002

Following a fireball that was seen from Kentucky to New York on Oct. 9, 1992, a 30-pound meteorite hit a parked car in Peekskill (pop. 22,441), penetrating the car’s trunk and coming to rest beneath it.

first appeared: 8/25/2002

Roosevelt Airport on Long Island was the departure point for Charles Lindbergh’s historic solo Atlantic flight May 20, 1927.

first appeared: 8/18/2002

While Buffalo’s blizzard of Jan. 28, 1977, dropped only 7 inches of new snow, winds of 70 miles per hour blew snow off frozen Lake Erie into 30-foot drifts. During the 25 hours of the blinding storm, wind chills fell to 60 below.

first appeared: 8/11/2002

Although the Adirondacks have fully recovered, two outbreaks of forest fires, in 1903 and 1908, burned about 868,000 acres. The fires prompted the establishment of fire districts and forest rangers.

first appeared: 8/4/2002

Long Island’s Bethpage State Park is the nation’s largest publicly operated golf facility, sporting five 18-hole courses.

first appeared: 7/28/2002

America’s first gold tooth was developed and used by Dr. J.B. Beers in 1843 in Rochester.

first appeared: 7/21/2002

Movie star James Whitmore, known for his one-man show as Harry S. Truman, was born in White Plains.

first appeared: 7/14/2002

More than 22,000 glass objects are exhibited at the Corning Glass Center in Corning (pop. 11,938). The company named itself after the town when the Brooklyn Flint Glass Co. moved here in 1868.

first appeared: 7/7/2002

Scores of daredevils have gone over Niagara Falls in various contraptions, including barrels. The first to survive a barrel ride was Annie Edson Taylor on Oct. 24, 1901.

first appeared: 6/30/2002

The Kaatskill Kaleidoscope in Mount Tremper (pop. 985) may be the world’s largest such device. Opened by Issac Abrams in 1996, visitors view the kaleidoscope by leaning back against padded boards to view the lens, which is in the top of a converted grain silo.

first appeared: 6/23/2002

The lighthouse on Montauk Point, built in 1796, is the first in New York and the fourth-oldest active lighthouse in the United States.

first appeared: 6/16/2002

A battle was fought at Sackets Harbor (pop. 1,386) during the War of 1812 when the British unsuccessfully tried to destroy American naval forces on Lake Ontario.

first appeared: 6/9/2002

Lou Gehrig (1903-1941) was the first athlete to have his number retired. When he stopped playing in 1939, the New York Yankees retired his number 4 jersey.

first appeared: 6/2/2002

Since its discovery in 1840, Howe Caverns in Schoharie County has been the site of more than 480 weddings performed at the Bridal Altar, a heart-shaped stone deep within the cave.

first appeared: 5/26/2002

Along the Hudson River, from north of Albany to its mouth at Staten Island, ferries began transporting travelers almost as soon as there were settlers in the region. By one estimate, more than 100 ferry services have come and gone on the river.

first appeared: 5/19/2002

Although Niagara Falls never completely freezes over, an ice jam in the upper river stopped the flow of water completely on March 29, 1848—to the point that people walked out and recovered artifacts from the riverbed.

first appeared: 5/12/2002

The tuxedo originated in 1886 when Pierre Lorillard, a wealthy landowner in the town of Tuxedo Park, designed a tailless coat to wear at a formal occasion. The garment caught on and was widely copied.

first appeared: 5/5/2002

One of Cayuga County’s favorite sons, Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), 13th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in the Finger Lakes region.

first appeared: 4/28/2002

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