November 2010

East Bloomfield was part of a larger land purchase called the Phelps-Gorham purchase, in 1789. The nearby towns of Mendon and Victor were part of this purchase and separated from Bloomfield in 1812.

In the Tunica Museum visitors can see how the Mississippi River has changed courses many times through the years. Learn about the Native Americans and how the delta was settled. Or much, much more. Topics include the natural setting, Native American prehistory, early European exploration and settlement, and 19th and 20th century social, agricultural, institutional, political, military and commercial history.

For over 93 years of Dutchess County’s 324 years, Dutchess County Historical Society has been working to discover, acquire, preserve and interpret the County’s extraordinary history. The society was chartered by the State of New York in 1918 and achieved its tax exempt status in 1983.Clinton House was built around 1765 by Hugh Van Kleeck. VanKleeck already owned about fifty acres on the south side of Main Street.

The Clinton House is a State owned historic resource named to honor George Clinton, the first governor of the State of New York and former Vice-President of the United States. It is operated by DCHS under an agreement with NY State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Moored on the Hudson River in Albany, New York, the USS Slater has undergone an extensive ten-year restoration that has returned the ship to her former glory.

Nearly 4,000 artifacts maps, models, paintings, and documents relating to the canal’s 185-year history are on display in the 19th-century Gothic Revival chapel, including a wall-sized map of the 108-mile canal and portraits of Delaware and Hudson president John Wurts and New York governor Dewitt Clinton. An adjacent one-half mile nature trail, known as the Five Locks Walk, leads to locks 16 through 20 of the original canal.

The society maintains the Sands-Willets House, part of which dates from the early 1700s, as a museum and educational center. The House is typical of the Long Island farmhouses that grew to fit the need of the families who lived in them.

The Sands-Willets House is located in the Incorporated Village of Flower Hill, in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, on a peninsula known in earlier times as 'Cow Neck'. That area roughly encompasses the Port Washington School District and parts of Manhasset and Roslyn.

The Sands-Willets House has 18 rooms, 11 of which are furnished and open to the public. The oldest portion of the house, the Colonial Kitchen, is believed to have been built by the Sands family around 1735. The Sands family were among the original settlers of nearby Sands Point. Seven members of this family served in the American Revolution. The property was purchased by Edmund Willets, a prominent Quaker and abolitionist, in 1845. He added the Greek-revival style addition to the house. The society bought the Sands-Willets House from Miss Eliza Willets in 1967 and has since restored and renovated it.

The Archaeological Center is dedicated to preserving the rich history of the ancestral Pueblo Indians (also called the Anasazi) who inhabited the canyons and mesas of the Mesa Verde region more than 700 years ago. The area has one of the densest concentrations of well-preserved archaeological sites in the world, attracting the interest of archaeologists, and capturing the imagination of the public, for well over 100 years.

Crow Canyon's campus-based programs allow visitors to participate in actual archaeological research, making exciting discoveries in the field and laboratory that add to the collective understanding of the Pueblo past. The Center’s research and education programs are developed in consultation with American Indians, whose insights complement the archaeological perspective and add a unique cross-cultural dimension to your experience.

In addition, Crow Canyon offers educational travel programs throughout the greater Southwest and around the world—tours that provide additional opportunities for the study of native cultures, both past and present.

Visitors may tour an 11th century Chacoan great house; see a 19th century homestead; picnic under a ramada; investigate replicas of a sweatlodge, hogan, tipi, and pithouse; visit a museum with ancient artifacts and interesting exhibits; use a research library specializing in the archaeology and history of the American Southwest; and browse a unique gift shop and archaeological reference materials.

The society was founded in 1947 "to collect local historical data, to diffuse the knowledge of local history, and to promote... the (1948) centenary of the incorporation of Corning as a village." It began immediately collecting information about the community's past. Visitors can tour the first tavern in the Lands of the Painted Post. The Williamson Road, now known as Route 15, along with the Chemung River was the frontier highway. These two routes of travel allowed people to come to this region to buy land from the Pulteney Estate. The Pattersons welcomed the weary travelers with a place to sleep and a hot meal.

In 1778, less than halfway through the Revolutionary War, the Americans were able to forge a huge iron chain which they successfully stretched across the Hudson River from West Point to Constitution Island. For five years the 80-ton chain kept the British warships from attacking the inhabitants of the upper Hudson Valley. West Point was the new site of the forts built by the Americans in January 1778 and where the chain was stretched across the river to Constitution Island, Colonel Thaddeus Kosciusko directed the construction at West Point and, on Constitution Island, built three redoubts and a battery to protect the east end of the great chain.