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SUMMARY:250th Anniversary of the Revolution Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This month’s 250th committee meeting will meet on Thursday\, May 7th in the Roger’s Island Visitor Center\, Fort Edward at 4:00 pm. Volunteers needed. General public is invited.
URL:https://wchs-ny.org/event/250th-anniversary-of-the-revolution-committee-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Rogers Island Visitor Center\, 11 Rogers Island Drive\, Fort Edward\, NY\, 12828\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Washington County 250th Committee":MAILTO:wchs@wchs-ny.org
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SUMMARY:May Local History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:May 13\, 2026\, Meeting of WCHS Local History Book Club\n\nThe Washington County Historical Society’s Local History Book Club will meet from 12:30 to 1:30 on Wednesday\, May 13. We sometimes meet at various locations around the county. Check back again. Otherwise\, Book Club meets at the Wing-Northup House\, 167 Broadway\, Fort Edward NY. Membership in the historical society is not required.
URL:https://wchs-ny.org/event/may-local-history-book-club/
LOCATION:Wing- Northup House\, 167 Boadway\, Fort Edward\, NY\, 12828\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Washington County Historical Society":MAILTO:wchs@wchs-ny.org
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SUMMARY:Program "My Odyssey with Solomon Northup"
DESCRIPTION:The Washington County Historical Society will host “My Odyssey with Solomon Northup”\, a program presented by Fort Edward historian Paul McCarty at 7:00 p.m. (please note that the starting time is 30 minutes later than our other WCHS programs) on Thursday\, May 14\, 2026 at the Old Fort House Museum at 29 Broadway\, Fort Edward\, N.Y.\n\nPaul first discovered the story about Solomon Northup the year he became Historian of Fort Edward. Doris McEachron at that time was the Argyle Historian. She helped to show Paul the ropes as a new historian. Doris gave him enough information to go looking for the book Twelve Years a Slave which he found at the Village Book Smith in Hudson Falls (for under $20 each!). He found the reference to the Old Fort House which Solomon occupied with his wife upon their marriage in 1828. Overtime\, he has worked with historians\, scholars\, and interested parties studying the Northup story. Attendees will have the opportunity to tour the Old Fort House and especially the Solomon Northup room after the program.\n\nR. Paul McCarty was appointed Historian of the Town and Village of Fort Edward in 1975. In his 51 years as historian\, Paul has been dedicated to telling the history and preserving the past of Fort Edward and its surrounding areas. In 1981\, Paul was appointed as the first Executive Director of the Old Fort House Museum\, a position he still holds today. In that time\, the museum has acquired and restored several area historic buildings including a Greek Revival Law Office\, Fort Edward Water Works Barn\, the one-room Riverside Schoolhouse\, the Cronkhite Pavilion which is the oldest surviving Washington County Fairgrounds building (c. 1875)\, Moreau Station Toll House\, a colonial Dutch-style home from 1790 and the infamous 3-seater outhouse from the Lakeville Church in Cossayuna.\n\nHe is a member of the Fort Edward Historical Association\, Washington County Historical Society\, Sandy Hill and Fort Edward Union Cemetery\, and Roger’s Island Visitor’s enter. He is also the historian of the William H. Hill Historical Collection at SUNY Adirondack.\nPaul was one of the first certified public historians by the Association of Public Historians of New York State. In 2015\, he was given the Franklin D. Roosevelt Historian Professional Achievement award from APHNYS.\n\nPaul is also a certified History and Industrial Education teacher and began teaching in 1974. He retired from the Saratoga Springs City School District as Technology Department head in 2007. He was also Director of Adult and Continuing Education for SSCSD for six years.\nThe program is free and open to the public. Donations are gladly accepted. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://wchs-ny.org/event/program-my-odyssey-with-solomon-northup/
LOCATION:Old Fort House\, 29 Broadway\, Fort Edward\, NY\, 12828\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Washington County Historical Society":MAILTO:wchs@wchs-ny.org
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SUMMARY:May Monthly Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Monthly Board Meeting on May 18th at 6:30pm in the Wing-Northup House\, 167 Broadway\, Fort Edward. All members are welcome to attend.
URL:https://wchs-ny.org/event/may-monthly-board-meeting/
LOCATION:Wing- Northup House\, 167 Boadway\, Fort Edward\, NY\, 12828\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Washington County Historical Society":MAILTO:wchs@wchs-ny.org
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SUMMARY:Program "Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution"
DESCRIPTION:Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution\nThursday\, May 28\, 2026 at 6:30 p.m.\nEast Hebron Presbyterian Church at 6559 State Route 22\, East Hebron\, NY\n(7 miles north of Salem and 10 miles south of Granville).\nPresented by Robert Hubbard\n\nThe Hebron Preservation Society and the Washington County Historical Society will co-host “Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution” (and for whom the Town of Putnam in northern Washington County is named). A colorful figure of 18th century America\, Israel Putnam (1718-1790) played key roles in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. During the former\, he barely escaped from being burned alive by Mohawk warriors and was held by the French as a prisoner of war in Canada. He later commanded a force of 500 men that was shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba. During the Revolutionary War\, it was Putnam who reportedly gave the command “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who was also a historian\, once stated it “could be argued that we owe our national existence to the fortifications which General Israel Putnam threw up in April 1776 on the Buttermilk Channel side (of New York’s Governors Island)\, which is just a baseball’s throw from Brooklyn Heights.\n\nRobert Ernest Hubbard is a retired professor from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven\, Connecticut\, and an adjunct faculty member in the college’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program. His book\, Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution (the first full-length biography of Putnam in more than a century\, re-examines the life of a general whose seniority in the Continental Army was second only to that of George Washington. This talk will cover Putnam‘s personal life and military career\, including his service in eastern New York State in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He is the author of eleven other books including The Last Survivors\, A History of Connecticut’s Deadliest Tornadoes\, and this year’s Major General Thomas Mifflin: The Army’s First Quartermaster General and the First Governor of Pennsylvania. Since 1996\, he has been the exclusive owner of the website IsraelPutnam.com\n\nThere is no charge for the program. It is open to the public. Donations are gladly accepted.\nWe hope you can join us for this interesting and informative program.
URL:https://wchs-ny.org/event/program-major-general-israel-putnam-hero-of-the-american-revolution/
LOCATION:Hebron United Presbyterian Church East\, 6559 NYS State Rte. 22\, Salem\, NY\, 12865\, United States
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