Fulton History
fultonhistory.com
A huge free archive of digitised historical newspapers, mostly from New York State and the surrounding region, with tens of millions of searchable pages.
Why it is useful
A treasure for genealogists and local historians looking for obituaries, notices and news from a specific town. The interface is dated and quirky, but the scale of free content is hard to match.
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