Hell's Acres: Bare Knuckle Boxing in the Taconic Mountains

Hell's Acres: Bare Knuckle Boxing in the Taconic Mountains | A New York Minute in History

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On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the forgotten story of Boston Corners, which once belonged to Massachusetts, but was ceded to New York state by an act of Congress in 1855. The area, now part of the Town of Ancram, was remote in the mid-19th century and hard to access from Massachusetts, while New […]

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