Documenting Labor Inside and Out:

Entry 28 -- 1826 In early October, an Indian named Sabelle led a group of mine owners to the richest and purist deposits of iron ore in the Adirondacks. By 1839 the Adirondack Iron and Steel Company was incorporated.

Entry 98 -- 1874 An agricultural commune was established on Valcour Island, south of Plattsburgh, by Hannah Augusta White with cooperation from the famed socialist Victoria Woodhull.

Entry 103 -- 1877 Philomena Daniels--Captain "Phil"--became the first woman in the world licensed as Pilot and Master for steamboat navigation. She and her husband ran the "Daniels Line" on Lake Champlain.

Entry 126 -- 1884 Two factory girls were the first patients of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau at his tuberculosis sanatorium on Saranac Lake.

Entry 192 -- 1910-1916 Inez Milholland practiced as a labor lawyer in Lewis, Essex County, after graduating from NYU Law School and Vassar College. She was active in the women's suffrage movement.

Source: "The History of Labor in New York State" map, New York Labor History Association, 1998.