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Beautiful mural of Rod Serling, creator of TV series The Twilight Zone, in his beloved hometown of Binghamton. Located behind The Bundy Museum of History and Art, in front of the building that houses the Serling Archives.
[Shelley Young, 09/19/2023]Rod Serling Twilight Zone Mural:- Address:
- 32 Cedar St., Binghamton, NY
- Directions:
- Downtown. From NY-17C/Main St. turn south (no stoplight) onto Cedar St., then make a quick left into the small parking lot. The mural is on an outside wall not visible from the street.
Pretty neat tower with a plaque explaining what its original purpose was when it came to railroading. Halfway up the tower is a metal monkey, but it is not King Kong!
[Thom H, 08/04/2023]Marconi 1914 Radio Test Tower:- Address:
- 69 Lewis St., Binghamton, NY
- Directions:
- On the north side of Lewis St., just east of Chenango St. and the old railroad depot.
- Binghamton, New York - Marconi Tower
Your website states that there are four Marconi Towers in the United States, two in Scranton and two in Binghamton. Binghamton now only has one tower standing (not sure about Scranton). I'm an amateur radio operator, and International Marconi Day is celebrated worldwide on the Saturday closest to April 25 (Marconi's Birthday). On this day amateur operators set up their radios at sites where Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi had a footprint in radio communications and began communicating around the world.
[Theodore Klees, 04/26/2023] - Binghamton, New York - Grave of John Wilkes Booth's Dubious Daughter
The inscription on the tombstone of Ogarita Booth Henderson proclaims she was the daughter of Izola Mills and John Wilkes Booth. After the Lincoln assassin's death, twenty women wrote Edwin Booth claiming to be his brother's secret widow. Edwin dismissed all of the claims out-of-hand. He was dismayed years later when his sister Rosalie was convinced by a woman named Izola Mills that John had fathered her daughter Ogarita in 1859. Rosalie Booth gave some $10,000 to Mills, according to Edwin.
It is unknown whether Ogarita Henderson truly believed that Booth was her father, or if she conspired with her mother for money. But as evidenced by contemporaneous newspaper mentions, her claims brought some attention to her career as a stage actress -- the same occupation held by John Wilkes Booth. Henderson died of pneumonia in 1892 while with a traveling acting troupe in Binghamton, New York, and she was buried there in Glenwood Cemetery. Her gravestone proclaiming the John Wilkes Booth connection came much later -- placed by her descendants in 1972.
[Kurt Deion / kurtshistoricsites.com, 04/13/2021]Grave of John Wilkes Booth's Dubious Daughter:- Address:
- Twining St., Binghamton, NY
- Directions:
- Glenwood Cemetery. NY-17/Southern Tier Expy exit 71 or 71S. Drive south on Airport Rd to the first stoplight. Turn left onto Prospect St. At the first stoplight turn left onto Glenwood Ave. Drive under the overpass, then immediately turn right onto True Ave. Make the first left onto Twining St., then a quick right. You'll see the cemetery on the left. The Booth gravestone is along this south cemetery edge, a couple of rows in, back by the green-roofed building; a square, upright gray stone.
It's a pretty neat tower near the equally cool Lackawanna railroad station.
[Annie, 04/09/2021]
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Our 2015 tip about this tower noted that it was "the last remaining" of the four original towers. So it was all alone back then, as it still is today.