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Historical & Genealogical

Societies and Museums

  Note:  If you know of additional Societies to be added or corrections to those listed, please email me with the information at: email correct/add 


 Craig Braack, Allegany County Historian

Court Street, Belmont, NY 14813, (585) 268-9293

email:  historian@alleganyco.com


 

CUBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 Press Here for more info......   

 

The Rushford Museum

Main Street - Rushford, New York

OPEN 9-12 Saturday - - Memorial Day to Labor Day

Ruth & Dan Metcalf, Curators; Owned and operated by Rushford Historical Society, Inc.

John Jessop, President
PHONE: (585) 437-2340 - EMAIL:   jjess@cnyti.com 
 

 

Thelma Rogers Genealogical & Historical Society

& Dyke Street Museum

Address: 118 East Dyke Street Wellsville NY 14895

email: thelmargh@gmail.com


Contact:        Jane Pinney - President - Phone: 585-593-4515
 

Hours: Wednesdays 1:00 - 4:00 pm  -   May to October

or By Appointment

Webpages (Onsite)  Press Here for more info......


Almond Historical Society

7 Main Street

Almond, Allegany County, New York 14804

 

(Above, "Hagadorn House", home of Almond Historical Society)

Society Hours: Fridays 2 - 4 p.m.
or by appointment
Call Doris Montgomery @ 607-276-6324

Press Here - For Stories on this website;

Press Here For Website of AHS (OFFSITE LINK)


Friendship-Nile Historical Society

Richard Langdon, Contact

email- Richard.langdon@va.gov or langdonrichard@yahoo.com

phone- (585) 973-7185;

 mail- Friendship-Nile Historical Society, P.O. Box 466 - Friendship, NY 14739

Meetings: 2nd Sunday of Month, 2 pm at Town Hall Meeting Room

call to make sure, we sometimes change the day.

 

 


 

Belfast Historical Society

P.O. Box 143 - Belfast, N.Y. 14711

Contact: President, David Chalker 585-365-2676

Open: Saturday 10am - noon, April thru November

(Phone numbers listed on premises during off-months for contact.)

(Meetings are the 2nd Monday of each month, 7pm, at our building located on Main Street next to the Post Office)

 


 

 The Bolivar-Richburg-Allentown-Genesee

Historical Preservation Society

(B.R.A.G.)

c/o Bolivar Free Library -- 390 Main Street --Bolivar, New York 14715

BRAG Historical Society is located downstairs in the Bolivar Free Library.

An attendent is on duty on Mondays, 12-9pm and the phone to call on Mondays ONLY is (585) 928-2659.  It is open the rest of the week, the same hours as the library; Tues & Fri 12:30-4:30, Wed & Thurs 6-9, and Sat 12:30 3:30.

BRAG has all Allegany County census records, the Indian Census records, and the Bolivar Breeze Newspaper (1895-1965) on micro-fiche, over 100 family genealogies, yearbooks, 40,000 name database on computer, 8 filing cabinets full of family group sheets, over 5,000 obituaries and military records on index cards, most of the local cemetery records, births, deaths and marriages.  

We cannot list all of the things that we have available for people to use in their researches.

go to HOME PAGE

 


Pioneer Oil Museum of New York
Box 332
Bolivar, NY 14715

The Pioneer Oil Museum is located in what used to be the McEwen Brothers Oilfield Supply Store, in the heart of the old "Allegany Oil Field." The oil fields of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties are the northermost exstensions of the nation's oldest oil-producing region; Northwestern Pennsylvania. For over a century the "Penn Grade" fields of Appalachia have been the source of the world's finest lubricating oils.

The museum was started in 1968.

The museum is run by donations.

Website: http://www.pioneer-oil-museum.com/about-us.html

 

Richburg/Wirt Historical Society

Main Street - Richburg, NY

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Catherine Schuyler Chapter

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

Belmont-Allegany, New York

Website: http://www.nydar.org/chapters/cschuyler.html

The DAR insignia is the property of, and is copyrighted by, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.


Town of Caneadea

Historian's Office & Museum

Gert Hall, Town Historian

Corner of Rt 19 & 243 Intersection - Caneadea, NY

By appointment, or, By chance.........

Webpages (Onsite)  Press Here for more info......


Baker's Bridge Historical Association

P.O. Box 13, Alfred Station, NY 14803

Susan Greene, Historian

Box 71 - Alfred Station, NY  14803

Website:  www.bakersbridge.org

Information for the area of Alfred & Alfred Station


Town of Hume Museum

Rondus Miller, Town Historian

MUSEUM HOURS

 
Monday 2-4
Monday July & August 9-12 & 1-4
Thursday 4-7
Saturday 9-12
For information, appointment, or directions call

585-567-8399

Website Address: www.humetown.org/HISTORYMAIN.html

email Address: museum@humetown.org

 
 

Cuba Cheese Museum

22 Water Street - P.O.Box 34

Cuba, NY 14727

Hours: 1:00-4:00pm Saturday & Sunday

1st Weekend in May - Last Weekend in October

(Closed November through April)

Free Admission

 

Website for Cuba Cheese Museum: www.cubacheesemuseum.org

 

Willing Historical Society;

Meetings held in Willing Town Hall;

Christina Case Wightman, Willing Town Historian

3052 Palmer Rd - Wellsville , NY 14895
Phone (585)593-6145

Webpages (Onsite)

   Press Here for Town of Willing Pages