In New Hampshire they say locust posts last about one year shy of granite ones. The same appears to be true in Columbia County, New York as well. On a walk around Shaker Museum’s historic North Family property in New Lebanon, one notices an abundance of old black locust t...

In September 1872, a notice appeared in The Shaker periodical that, “Mt. Lebanon is alive to many new things. The South Family is building an extensive chair factory, with tenant houses attached. A thousand-dollar engine from Haskell’s Albany works is to drive the m...