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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Sears Oil Co. Museum

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  This is the cutest little gas station!  Howard P. Sears started his first business, fixing and selling bicycles, when he was just 14. He ...

Women's Rights National Historical Park

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  The World Anti Slavery Convention was held in London in 1840. About 300 delegates, most from England and the United States, attended. At ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Joseph Smith Farm

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  Joseph Smith, the founder of the Morman Church, moved to this farm as a boy with his parents and siblings in 1818. They built a log house...

Hill Cumorah Visitors Center

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            Hill Cumorah is a pilgrimage site for devout Mormans. In 1827, according to Morman history,  the angel Maroni gave engraved gol...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion Historic Park

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   This forty room mansion was a summer home for Frederick Ferris Thompson, a prominent banker in New York City, and his wife Mary Clark Th...

Kershaw Park

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   The paths in this little park follow the shoreline of Canandaigua Lake.  Round trip is about 1 1/2 miles. Hard packed, crushed rock make...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Ganondagan State Historic Site

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   In the 1600s nearly 150 longhouses stood on this property, making Ganondagan  the largest Seneca town. The Senacas were keepers of the w...
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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Jello Gallery

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  Making gelatin deserts used to be a time consuming process involving hours of boiling animal bones and connective tissues, straining the ...
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Buffalo History Museum

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  Update 2024 When the Erie Canal was finished in 1825 Buffalo, at the western terminus, became an important transfer point. Grain and othe...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum

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    The Herschell Carrousel Factory produced over 3,000 hand carved, wooden carrousels. They were not the large, very elaborate carrousels ...