Events
HSM CALENDAR 2022
HSM offers talk on history of Denver-Vega Valley July 14
An illustrated talk, “Homesteads to Go-Karts: A History of the Denver-Vega Valley,” will be presented at the Middletown History Center in Margaretville July 14 at 1 p.m.
HSM to open Middletown History Center
The Historical Society of the Town of Middletown will hold an Open House at the new Middletown History Center, 778 Cemetery Road, Margaretville, on Sunday, June 9 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The celebration will begin with a 2 p.m. ribbon cutting on the doorstep of the expanded facility which includes an archives and reading room named for HSM benefactor Nicholas J. Juried.
Fires, floods focus of Margaretville walking tour May 18
On Saturday, May 18 at 11 a.m., the May 18 – Historical Society of the Town of Middletown will host a one-hour walking tour of Main and Bridge Streets to explain the impact of disastrous fires and floods over more than a century.
Volunteers needed to help move archives
Volunteers are needed on Saturday, April 13 to help load and unload boxes of historic materials and artifacts from temporary storage at Fairview Public Library to HSM’s new archives space at the HSM hall on Cemetery Road, Margaretville.
1968 Catskill Mountain News posted online
The Historical Society of the Town of Middletown has filled a hole in the online roster of the Catskill Mountain News.
Nearly the entire 1968 run of the News has been added to the New York State Historic Newspapers website, created and administered by the Northern New York Library Network in partnership with the Empire State Library Network.
HSM Offers Headstone Cleaning
Memorial Day is right around the corner and the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown wants to help you pay tribute to your loved ones by offering a unique headstone cleaning service.
The Battle of Shacksville, March 14, 1845
This is the general area where the Battle of Shacksville is presumed to have happened. That’s the East Branch of the Delaware River at center left crossing under the bridge on what is now Briggs Road. Town of Roxbury collectionThe Battle of Shacksville, March 14, 1845...
More local newspapers posted online
More than half a century of the Roxbury Times and 12 more years of the Catskill Mountain News have been added to the New York State Historic Newspapers website, created and administered by the Northern New York Library Network in partnership with the Empire State Library Network.
HSM wraps up busy year with some old fashioned music
MARGARETVILLE – The Historical Society of the Town of Middletown concluded its programming season November 4 with a musical tribute to a home-town composer from the turn of the last century. Following its annual meeting and luncheon, held at the Catskill Watershed...