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NNYLN Directory of Archival and Historical Document Collections

HAMILTON COUNTY

(NORTHERN)

Adirondack Museum Library
Address: P.O. Box 99, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812
Telephone: (518) 352-7311
Contact: Jerold Pepper
Position: Librarian
E-Mail: jpepper@adkmuseum.org
Business hours: Monday thru Friday, 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Collection: Books, manuscripts, maps, periodicals, microforms, and ephemera related to Adirondack Mountains.
Restrictions: Prior appointments strongly recommended.
Website: www.adirondackmuseum.org
Indian Lake Town Historian
Address: 36 West Main St., Indian Lake, NY 12842-1503
Telephone: (518) 648-5377
Contact: William Zullo
Position: Town Historian
E-mail: bzullo@frontiernet.net
Business hours: By appointment.
Collection:Documents, pictures, genealogy, manuscripts, books, booklets, maps, artifacts, cemetery records, church records, clothing, furniture and houseware, history, Native American information, newsletters, school records, scrapbooks, tapes, town/village records, and vital statistics.
Restrictions:
Long Lake Town Historian
Address: P.O. Box 187, Long Lake, NY 12847
Telephone: (518) 624-3077
Contact: Jeanne F. Plumley
Position: Town Historian
Business hours: Call to make an appointment.
Collection: Documents, old town pictures, manuscripts, correspondence, genealogy of local families, and annual town scrapbooks of news.
Restrictions: Materials are in fire proof files at the Archives Building in town. Appointment needed with historian at Long Lake. - to view collection, Tuesdays, 9:00 a.m. - noon, call Raymond Smith at 518-624-5374.
Morehouse Town Historian
Address: P.O. Box 1, Hoffmeister, NY 13353
Telephone: (315) 826-5764
Contact: Carol A. Ford
Position: Town Historian
Business hours: Open July and August.
Collection: Material relating to Andrew K. Morehouse, who settled New Brunswick (Herkimer County) prior to 1832, and in 1832 settled Bethuneville and Morehouseville. We are starting a small museum to show off what we have on town history. Pictures, materials, a few old things from town, artifacts.
Restrictions: Material does not circulate.
Piseco Lake Historical Society
Address: Old Piseco Road, Piseco, NY 12139
Telephone: (518) 548-4812
Contact: Lynn Billington
Position: Town Historian
Business hours: By appointment.
Collection:Arietta cesus records, 1850-1925, Piseco Lake correspondence (1836-1864), photographs of early settlers, artifacts lent and donated for display in museum buildings which are open summers.
Restrictions: Must not be removed from depository.
Raquette Lake, Town of
Address: P.O. Box 114, Antlers Road, Raquette Lake, NY 13436
Telephone: (315) 354-5122
Contact: Jim Kammer
Position: Town Historian
Business hours: Call to make an appointment.
Collection: Artifacts, history, letters and manuscripts, maps, mining, newsletters, newspapers, pictures and paintings, printed material, school records, scientific information, scrapbooks, tapes, and vital statistics.
Restrictions:
Wells Town Historian
Address: 1381 St. Rt. 30, P.O. Box 97, Wells, NY 12190
Telephone: (518) 924-2535
Contact: Leona Aird
Position: Town Historian
Business hours: Call for an appointment.
Collection: Census for several years, "History of Hamilton County." Cemetery records, pictures.
Restrictions: No records may be borrowed.

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