Celebrating Preservation Month with our Cronkite Lecture Series each Thursday of the month. Join us for our Fourth Annual Washington County Historical Society Preservation Award Ceremony. The society will honor projects and people, who have worked to preserve architecture and history of Washington County
"Through Susan's Eyes" was COVID-19 postponed from our original 2021 date. We will celebrate the now 102nd anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment. Barbara Skiff will portray the young Susan B. Anthony, telling her story at each stop in Greenwich, Easton, Jackson and Cambridge. Attendees will ride a chartered bus; cost TBA and […]
The Washington County Historical Society and the Greenwich-Easton Historical Association will co-host “Unsolved Murders in Washington County”, a program by author, Dr. Hollis Palmer on Tuesday, June 7 at 7 p.m. in the Community Room at the Greenwich Free Library, Main Street in Greenwich, N.Y. In the days before DNA, criminal profiling and computerized records, […]
Washington County Historical Society’s local history book club will meet at noon on Friday, June 10th, at the society’s Wing-Northup House, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward. The club meets on the second Friday of the month. Historical Society membership is not required. The June 10 meeting of the book club will discuss A Home in the […]
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 […]
Washington County Historical Society’s local history book club will meet at noon on Friday, July 8, at the society’s Wing-Northup House, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward. The club meets on the second Friday of the month. Historical Society membership is not required. The July meeting of the book club will feature an author talk by Glenn […]
The Washington County Historical Society and the Hebron Preservation Society will co-host “Thinking about Teaching: A Rural Social Studies Teacher’s Path to Strive for Relevance”, a talk by Dr. Casey Jakubowski on July 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hebron United Presbyterian Church East at 6559 NYS State Rte. 22 in East Hebron Salem), N.Y. […]
August meeting of WCHS Local History Book Club Washington County Historical Society’s local history book club will meet at noon on Friday, August 12, at the society’s Wing-Northup House, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward. The club usually meets on the second Friday of the month. Historical Society membership is not required. The August meeting of […]
Washington County Historical Society is pleased to be hosting our third open house at The Museums at Penope Farms located at 56 Scotch Hill Road in the Town of Jackson. This is a pop-up program that wasn’t on our original schedule. There was so much interest after last years event at the farm that we […]
Washington County Historical Society’s local history book club will meet at noon on Friday, September 9, at the society’s Wing-Northup House, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward. The club usually meets on the second Friday of the month. Historical Society membership is not required. The September 9 topic will be any book on Washington County’s 123rd Regiment […]
Visit the Museum of Greenwich Fire Department History. The building was constructed in 1904 and currently maintained by its members. The original Rough and Ready Engine Company formed in 1854. Tours will be given at 12:30 and 2:00 p.m.
Come Celebrate Washington County History! Saturday, October 8th, 10AM Kingsbury Cemetery, corner of Route 4 and Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury, NY The program will include a brief history of the Kingsbury Cemetery, reading of the biographies of some of the soldiers buried there, cannon firings, bagpiper, guided tour of gravesites of Revolutionary soldiers. The Washington County […]