About the NNHS

The Northville-Northampton Historical Society was formed in 1988 by a group of civic-minded townsfolk led by Northampton Historian Terry Warner, whose initial plan for an informal exchange of stories and pictures quickly blossomed into a chartered nonprofit organization. So strong was local enthusiasm for this endeavor that in short order, a combination of pluck, ingenuity and serendipity delivered to the society - quite literally - a home of its own, when Warren and Janet Meter donated the long-abandoned Gifford Valley Schoolhouse for the society’s use as a museum. In the spring of 1990, dozens of volunteers pitched up to liberate the schoolhouse from its tangled nest of bracken on the corner of High Rock-Gifford Road and Collins-Gifford Valley Road, load it onto a trailer, and escort it on its journey to its new home on Main Street in the Village of Northville. In the ensuing decades, this resurrected hall of education has come to house a collection of genuinely fascinating exhibits whose artifacts tell the story of Northampton’s growth from a Revolutionary-era outpost on the edge of the Adirondack upland to a wilderness boomtown to a community profoundly transformed by downstate urban demands.

Northville-Northampton Historical Museum

412 South Main Street, Northville, NY 12134
Wednesday and Saturday
10am - 2pm
April - October

OFFICERS

President: Eliza Jane Darling

Vice President: Vacant

Secretary: Shari Crawford Cramer

Treasurer: Annette Fry