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Article content On Friday, June 26, 1908, the left side of The Freeholder’s front page was dedicated to a catastrophic event: a disaster at the Cornwall canal. The headline that day provided a quick synopsis of what happened, “Break at Lock 18 – 200 Feet of Bank Carried into the River – Collapse of the O. & N. Y. Draw Bridge.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Freeholder at 175: The day the bank gave way, and the bridge fell Back to video Considered the “worst break in the history of the Cornwall canal,” a large slice of the south ba...

Article content Editor’s note: We continue a special look back at the 175 years of continuous publication of the Cornwall Freeholder, the Cornwall Standard, and the Standard-Freeholder, through this series that will appear regularly until the end of this calendar year. In this entry, Sara Racine, known as Cornwall’s Little Historian, takes a look at the last execution to ever take place at the Cornwall Jail, back in 1954. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Freeholder @ 175: Last hanging at the Cornwall Jail Back to video On the afternoon of May...