Boswell Museum
PO Box 27
5748 State Highway 20
East Springfield, NY 13333
607.264.3321
Email: boswell@boswellmuseum.org
Website: www.boswellmuseum.org
Holdings: The museum preserves music and social history of the period, presents it in historical context with its present day relevance, and supports live performance by both students and professionals. Holdings include period furnishings and clothing, magazines, newspapers, photographs, documents, records, films, sheet music, radio memorabilia, and oral histories.
Butternuts Heritage Association
PO Box 108
Gilbertsville, NY 13776
607.783.2870
Contact: Cyndie Price, Chairman
Email: butternutsheritage@yahoo.com
Cherry Valley Historical Association & Museum
PO Box 115
49 Main street
Cherry Valley, NY 13320
607.264.3303
Contact: Barbara Bell, Director
Email: museum@CelticArt.com
Website: cherryvalleymuseum.org
Hours: Memorial Day-October 15
Monday-Sunday 10:00a-5:00p
Holdings: Material about Cherry Valley; early Presbyterian Church records; newspapers; genealogies of settler families; personal accounts of local history.
Cherry Valley Memorial Library
PO Box 25
61 Main Street
Cherry Valley, NY 13320
607.264.8214
Contact: Claire Ottman, Director
Email: cv_ill@4cty.org
Wesite: www.4cls.org/webpages/members/cherryvalley/cherryvalley.html
Hours: Monday Thursday 9:00a-12:00p, 2:00-5:00p, 6:30-8:30p
Saturday 9:00a-1:00p
Holdings: Very small collection of local history reference materials.
Edmeston Free Library
PO Box 179
6 West Street
Edmeston, NY 13335
607.965.8902
Contact: Robert Nonenmacher, Director
Website: www.4cls.org/webpages/members/edmeston/edmeston.html
Hours: Tuesday Wednesday 3:00-9:00p
Thursday 1:30-5:30p
Saturday 9:00a-1:00p
Fly Creek Area Historical Society
PO Box 87
208 Cemetery Road
Fly Creek, NY 13337
607.547.2501
Contact: Jim Wolff
Email: jwolfe@stny.rr.com
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Photographs, postcards, newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, advertising, posters and other documents related to the Fly Creek area, as well as various objects manufactured in and marked "Fly Creek".
Gilbertsville Free Library
PO Box 332
19 Commercial Street
Gilbertsville, NY 13776-0332
607.783.2820
Contact: Leigh Eckmair, Archivist
Email: librarian@stny.rr.com
Website: www.gilbertsville.com/library
Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Friday 2:45-5:15p
Wednesday 2:45-5:15p, 7:00-8:30p
Thursday 10:00a-12:00p, 2:45-5:15p
Saturday 9:00a-1:00p
Local History Collection Assistance
Saturday 10:30a-12:30p and by appointment.
Holdings: Collection covering history of the southwestern part of Otsego County designated "the old England District" in 1775 as the final action of the colonial legislature of NY now known as the towns of Butternuts and Morris and parts of Pittsfield, New Lisbon, Laurens and Unadilla. Family files, genealogies; school, church and tax records; extensive collection of local, regional and NY State history, both fiction and nonfiction; obituary and marriage files; funeral director records; business records; photographs. National Register of Historic Places structural inventory records on all structures in village and selected structures in township; microfilm of Otsego Journal 1876-1965, Morris Chronicle 1865-1932, Otsego Co. Board of Supervisor records 1804-2000; Otsego Co. census records 1790-1930.
Greater Milford Historical Association
PO Box 130
Milford, NY 13807
607.286.7038
Hours: June-August: Sunday 1:00-4:00p
Greater Oneonta Historical Society
PO Box 814
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.431.9509
Contact: Bob Brzozowski, President
Email: brzozow@dmcom.net
Website: www.wpe.com/~gohs/
Harris Memorial Library
PO Box 470
334 Main Street
Otego, NY 13825
607.988.6661
Contact: Dorothy Wilber, Librarian
Email: ot_ill@4cty.org
Hours: Tuesday Thursday 10:00a-12:00p, 2:00-5:00p
Wednesday Friday 2:00-5:00p, 6:00-9:00p
Saturday 10:00a-1:00p
Hartwick College
Stevens-German Library
Paul F. Cooper Jr. Archives
Yager Hall
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.431.4450
Contact: Shelley Wallace, Archivist
Email: wallaces@hartwick.edu
Website: www.hartwick.edu/archives.xml
Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00a-12:00p, 1:00-5:00p
Holdings: Hartwick Seminary Records 1739-1940; Hartwick College Records 1927-present; Judge William Cooper Papers 1712-1809; city of Oneonta archives; Delaware County Folklore Project 1978; Gerry family papers 1783-1957; James M. Hanley papers of Indian Affairs 1970-1980; Roy Rowan manuscript collection 1948-2001; Willard E. Yager collection 1874-1929; New York Board of Water Suppy transcripts 1940-1990. Searchable database includes complete inventories for all collections.
Hartwick College
The Yager Museum
One Hartwick Drive
Yager Hall
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.431.4480
Contact: Fiona Dejardin, Director
Email: museums@hartwick.edu
Website: www.hartwick.edu/museums
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 12:00-4:30p
Holdings: There are approximately 60,000 objects in the Yager Museum collections. Collection strengths include Oneonta and Susquehanna Valley artifacts and tools, Iroquois material culture, Southwestern pots and baskets and some pre-Columbian objects, and 19th-century American landscape paintings. The museum exhibits its collections along with loan and traveling exhibits that address contemporary art, social and anthropological issues.
Hartwick Historical Society
PO Box 1
3140 County Highway 11
Hartwick, NY 13348
607.293.6600
Contact: Barbara Potter, Director
Email: kinymlib@stny.rr.com
Hours: Monday 9:00a-1:00p, 7:00-9:00p
Wednesday 12:00-4:00p, 7:00-9:00p
Friday Saturday 1:00-5:00p
Holdings: Local history, cemetery records, birth and death records. Many local family histories.
Huntington Memorial Library
New York State Room
62 Chestnut Street
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.432.1980
Email: on.mary@4cls.org
Website: www.4cls.org/webpages/members/oneonta/hml2.htm
Contact: Mary Harris, Librarian
Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00a-12:00p, 1:00-4:00p
Also by appointment.
Holdings: he New York State History Room concentrates its collection on local history and genealogy materials pertinent to Delaware and Otsego counties. Materials include photographs; postcards; diaries; scrapbooks; personal papers; certical files; city directory.
Hyde Hall, Inc.
PO Box 721
Cooperstown, NY 13326
607.547.5098
Contact: Lorraine Joseph, Executive Director
Email: hydehall@wpe.com
Website: www.hydehall.org
Hours: Collections Office
Tuesday Wednesday 8:30a-4:30p
Main Office
Monday-Friday 10:00a-4:00p
Holdings: Collection of Mead’s records, cabinet maker, 1777-1859; family artifacts original to 5 generations of Clarkes, 1817-1963; small collection of theses, books and other paper materials relating to Hyde Hall, the Clarke family and Cooperstown.
Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society
PO Box 681
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.432.2429
Contact: Bruce Hodges, President
Email: lrhs@lrhs.com
Website: www.lrhs.com
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Documents, photographs, and publications dealing with railroads in the Oneonta/Cooperstown area and across the country.
Milford Free Library
PO Box 118
South Main Street
Milford, NY 13807
607.286.9076
Contact: Barbara Campbell, Librarian
Email: mi_ill@4cty.org
Hours: Winter: Monday Thursday 7:00-9:00p
Tuesday Friday 1:00-5:00p
Summer: Monday Thursday 1:00-5:00p, 7:00-9:00p
Morris Historical Society
Village Library
20 Broad Street
Morris, NY 13808-9704
Contact: Rennie Elliott, Curator
Email: ferrology@yahoo.com
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Artifacts and ledgers of local businesses, some newspapers and microfilm of newspapers (Morris Chronicle), photographs, postcards, local history books, manuscripts, and newspaper articles. Artifacts, business records and sales literature of the Linn Tractor Company (1916-1949). Artifacts, clothing, newspaper clippings and photographs from 1970 Village Centennial Celebration.
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Research Library
25 Main Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326
607.547.0330
Contact: James L. Gates Jr., Director
Email: jgates@baseballhalloffame.org
Website: www.baseballhalloffame.org/library
Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00a-5:00p
Holdings: Extensive collection of archival materials devoted exclusively to baseball. See website for more details.
National Firefighters Hall of Fame
PO Box 178
Laurens, NY 13796
607.287.0071
Contact: Walter W. Wing
National Soccer Hall of Fame
18 Stadium Circle
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.432.3351 x209
Contact: Jack Huckel, Director of Museum Services
Email: Jack@Soccerhall.org
Website: www.soccerhall.org
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Sam Foulds collection (1920s-1980s); Milt Miller collection (1940s-1960s); North American Soccer League collection (1960s-80s); Louie Souza Collection (1950s-1970s), World Cup 1994 records, National Soccer News (Chicago), Soccer News, Graham Guides. Primary research materials on the history of soccer in America, newspapers, letters, artifacts, from the mid-1800’s to present.
New York State Historical Association
PO Box 800
Cooperstown, NY 13326
607.547.1470
Contact: Wayne Wright, Associate Director
Email: library@nysha.org
Website: www.nysha.org
Hours: Monday-Friday 10:00a-5:00p
Saturday 1:00-5:00p
Holdings: Books, micrforms, periodicals, newspapers, diaries, manuscripts, etc. have been collected by NYSHA since its founding in 1899 to relate the stories of the past to the present day. This collection, housed in a research library built in 1968 comprises more than 80,000 volumes of American history & art, museology, material culture, family history, genealogy, 18th century craft processes, and agriculture. Strong collection of 19th century rural life, Native American art, folk art, genealogy and local history. Manuscript holdings document life 19th-century Central NY life. Papers includes letters of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr before their famous duel.
Otego Historical Society
PO Box 127
6 River Street
Otego, NY 13825
607.988.2225
Contact: Helen S. Groves
Hours: Wednesday 1:00-4:00p
Holdings: 1880s – to present: emetery and funeral director records, (revolutionary war-present) photographs, scrapbooks, handwritten histories, school records, yearbooks, local organization records, "Rural Times" 1906-1934 available on microfilm.
Richfield Springs Public Library
PO Box 271
102 Main Street
Richfield Springs, NY 13439
315.858.0230
Contact: Alice Mahardy, Director
Email: rs_alice@4cty.org
Hours: Monday-Friday 11:30a-4:40p
Monday Thursday 7:00-9:00p
Holdings: Photo collection in process of preservation, currently not available. Local history of Richfield Spring and surrounding areas.
Smithy-Pioneer Gallery
53 Pioneer Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Hours: June-September:
Tuesday-Saturday 10:00a-5:00p
Sunday 1:00-5:00p
Holdings: Cooperstown's oldest building; 3 floors of gallery; blacksmiths tools, ledgers, (on loan to NYSHA); sculpture garden, pottery school in spring and fall.
Springfield Library Association
PO Box 142
County Highway 29A
Springfield Center, NY 13468
315.858.5802
Contact: Nancy Sloan, Director
Email: sp_ill@4cty.org
Hours: Monday Thursday 2:00-8:00p
Wednesday 9:00a-2:00p
Saturday 9:00a-12:00p
Swart Wilcox House Museum
64 Ford Avenue
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.433.2795
Contact: Helen Rees, President
Email: HKRcat@aol.com
Hours: By appointment only.
SUNY College at Oneonta
Fine Arts Gallery
222 Fine Arts Building
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.436.3717
Contact: Charles Winter, Director
Email: wintercd@oneonta.edu
Hours: Monday-Friday 11:00a-4:00p
Or by appointment.
SUNY College at Oneonta
James M. Milne Library
Special Collections
Oneonta, NY 13820
607.436.2727
Contact: Lyndsie Robinson, Archivist
Email: robinslc@oneonta.edu
Hours: Archives are available for research by appointment Monday-Friday 8:00a-4:30p.
Holdings: University correspondence, minutes, records, reports, publications, faculty papers, photographs, oral history tapes, memorabilia, collections of early textbooks, popular fiction, educational theory, and master's theses. The New York State Case Books Collection comprises the non-circulating segment of the New York State Collection, including local histories, most county histories, and several early state histories. The Early Textbook Collection focuses on books used in the common schools of America from the late 18th into the early 20th centuries.
Town of Exeter Historical Society
PO Box 153
Schuyler Lake, NY 13457
Hours: Sunday 1:00-5:00p
Also by appointment.
Holdings: General Nicholas Herkimer genealogy, Tunnicliff genealogy, copy of excerpts of letters from Benjamin Franklin to John Tunnicliff. 1868 Otsego County map. Cemetery census, church histories; early Town of Exeter documents, pictures, maps; family genealogies; Mary Beth Cushman diary (1700’s). Town of Exeter organizational ledger (1799).
Town of Hartwick Historical Society
RD 1 Box 37
Hartwick, NY 13348
607.293.6602
Contact: Anita Harrison, President
Hours: By appointment only.
Town of Maryland
PO Box 231
Schenevus, NY 12155
Contact: Dorothy Parmerter, Historian
Email: beech18@dmcom.net
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Town cemetery listings and obituaries.
Town of Middlefield Historical Association
PO Box 348
3698 County Highway 35
Cooperstown, NY 13326
607.547.9515
Contact: Merrilyn R. O’Connell, President
Email: middlefieldmuseum@yahoo.com
Website: www.middlefieldmuseum.org
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Old district #1 school records, pamphlets, textbooks, misc. newspapers, ephemera, photo collection and business ledgers relating to the Township of Middlefield.
Town of Rosebloom Historical Association
PO Box 46
Rosebloom, NY 13450
607.264.8065
Contact: Vivian Langan, President
Email: vive@telenet.net
Hours: By appointment only.
Unadilla Public Library
PO Box 632
193 Main Street
Unadilla, NY 13849
607.3969.3131
Contact: Nancy Marcello, Librarian
Email: unadillalibrary@stny.rr.com
Website: www.4cls.org/webpages/members/unadilla/unadilla.html
Hours: Monday Wednesday 7:00-9:00p
Tuesday Thursday 10:00a-12:00p, 1:00-5:00p, 7:00-9:00p
Saturday 10:00a-2:00p
Holdings: Unadilla Times on microfilm, 1857-1967. The Pioneers of Unadilla. At Rest in Unadilla. The Village Beautiful. History of Otsego County , New York 1740-1878. Biographical Review Otsego County.
Village Library of Cooperstown
22 Main Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326
607.547.8344
Contact: David Kent, Librarian
Email: co_ill@4cty.org
Hours: Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday 9:00a-5:00p
Wednesday 9:00a-8:00p
Saturday 10:00a-2:00p
Village Library of Morris
PO Box 126
East Main Street
Morris, NY 13808
607.263.2808
Contact: Audree Lamb, Librarian
Email: mo_ill@4cty.org
Hours: Monday Wednesday Saturday 1:00-5:00p
Tuesday Thursday 3:00-5:00p, 7:00-9:00p
Westford Historical Society
PO Box 184
Westford, NY 13488
607.638.9019
Contact: Jane Huntington, Historian
Email: jhunt@wpe.com
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Family histories, business and school records.
Worcester Free Library
PO Box 461
168 Main Street
Suite 2
Worcester, NY 12197
607.397.7309
Contact: Christine Gartung, Librarian
Email: wo_ill@4cls.org
Website: www.4cls.org/webpages/members/Worcester/Worcester.html
Hours: Tuesday 9:00a-6:30p
Thursday 9:00-5:30p
Saturday 9:00a-4:00p
Holdings: Local history-Worcester, Cherry Valley, Milford, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York State; atlas of Delaware County; Story of the War of 1898; Grand Army of the Republic (1897) personal war sketches; School and Library Atlas of the World c. 1968; atlas of Otsego County 1868.
Worcester Historical Society
PO Box 186
144 Main Street
Worcester, NY 12197
607.397.1700
Contact: Gynger O’Connor, President
Hours: June-September
Wednesday-Friday 1:00-3:00p
Holdings: Newspapers and genealogy info displays of local history.
