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Childhood Home of Susan B. Anthony- Historic Marker Dedication
June 18, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Washington County Historical Society and the Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation are pleased to announce the dedication of a new historic marker to be placed at the Susan B Anthony Childhood Home at 2835 State Route 29 in Battenville (Town of Greenwich) on Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.
The marker was made possible by the generosity of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation Grant Program. The core initiative of this program is to help people celebrate their community’s history. The grant program commemorates people, place, thing, or events that happened between 1740 and 1922. Since 2006, the Foundation has funded more than 800 markers in 59 New York State counties.
The grant proposal was written and submitted in 2019, then came Covid and finally in late 2021, WCHS was notified that the marker would be coming to Battenville. In early June 2022, David Pitlyk of the OPRHP placed the post for the marker in preparation for Saturday’s ceremony.
The ceremony will include a Welcome by Debi Craig, Past President of the Washington County Historical Society, also, Coline Jenkins, great great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and New York State Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner will share a few words. Descendants of Susan and her family will be in attendance.
The public is invited, however parking at the Anthony house will not be available. The OPRHP is sponsoring shuttle buses which will leave from the Greenwich Jr-Sr High School on Gray Avenue in the Village of Greenwich. Also, keep in mind that the 18th is part of Whipple City weekend so there will be some detours in the village. There will be 2 runs with 2 buses each leaving from the circle in front of the Greenwich Jr-Sr High School at 1:15 and 1:30 p.m. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the departure of the shuttle you wish to take. After the ceremony, the buses will return attendees to the Jr-Sr High School after the ceremony.
We hope you will join us in Battenville on June 18th to celebrate the role of the childhood home of one of the most important suffragists in our country’s history who lived in Washington County for 19 years of her life.