Membership

To join the Bleecker Historical Society, please download and submit the membership form below, and send with a check or money order payable to:

Bleecker Historical Society
575 County Highway 112
Gloversville, NY 12078

Rates: 

  • Individual: $5.00 annual
  • Family: $7.00 annual
  • Sustaining: $25.00 annual
  • Lifetime: $100.00

MembershipForm
Membership Form

The Bleecker Historical Society is chartered by the New York State Department of Education and is an IRS-recognized 501C3 Not-for-Profit Corporation. Donations are tax exempt.

 

Calendar

PROGRAM SCHEDULE FOR 2016

Meetings held at Bleecker Town Hall at 6:45 p.m. (unless otherwise noted.) 

Monday, April 4  David Newkirk—

Making a Colonial hearth broom

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Monday, May 2  Evelyn Frasier, Ephrathah Town Historian

Big Fire Hits Garoga (1900’s)

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Monday, June 6  Eleanor Brooks, Bleecker Town Historian

Early Bleecker Highway History

NOTE LOCATION:     Home of Snell & Hautala, 293 Barlow Road, Bleecker

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Monday, July 11 (2nd Monday) David Knowles, Civil Engineer

Surveying techniques old and new 

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Monday, August 8 (2nd Monday) Kelly Farquhar,

Montgomery County Historian

Jelles Fonda-Revolutionary War Era letter

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Monday, Sept. 12 (2nd Monday) Peter Vroman

Retired U. S. Marshal

Stories from many years of service.

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Monday, October 3 (first Monday)  Peter Betz

Past Fulton County Historian

History of “Whipple Bowstring Bridge”

NOTE LOCATION:     Home of Snell & Hautala, 293 Barlow Road, Bleecker

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Monday, November 7

Annual meeting, election of officers and reports

No speaker

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All meetings open to the public.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About

Contact Information

Bleecker Historical Society
575 County Highway 112
Gloversville, NY 12078
USA
bleeckerhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
518-863-6834

 

History

The Bleecker Historical Society was formed in 1993 by a group of residents dedicated to documenting, preserving and sharing the heritage of the Town of Bleecker in the Adirondack mountains of upstate New York.

Our Mission:

  1. To promote and encourage original historical research;
  2. To disseminate and encourage a greater knowledge of the history of the State of New York and particularly the Town of Bleecker and its environs;
  3. To gather, preserve, display and make available for study artifacts, relics, books, manuscripts, papers, photographs, and other records and material relating to the history of the State of New York and particularly the Town of Bleecker and the surrounding area;
  4. To encourage the suitable marking of places of historic interest; and
  5. To acquire by purchase, gift, devise, or otherwise, the title to or the custody and control of historic sites and structures, and preserve and maintain such sites and structures.

 

Board of Trustees:

  • Daniel Brink
  • Sharon Brink
  • Carlene Lankton


Officers:

  • Eleanor Brooks, President
  • Alice Loux, Vice President
  • Kathy Evans, Secretary
  • Diane Perrella, Treasurer

Town Historian:

  • Eleanor Brooks

 

Please click on the following links to download a copy of our Constitution and By-Laws, revised and approved in 2013.