A version of this post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2017. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice’s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Mar

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2017. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice’s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! Publicity photo of Emma B. Hodge After Alice T. Miner herself,

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2015. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! The story of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2014. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! Period rooms are so much a part of our modern museum landsca

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2014. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! “ In the Brave Days of Old ,” 1915 Near the stairway on the

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2016. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! In 1876, the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition kicked off

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2014. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! In the years between the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition

"This farm produced syrup that won 'Best in Show' for Vermont at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair entered by Henry H. Hill of Isle la Motte, VT."

"In 1811 Dr. Nathan Carver gave land for a cemetery. This is the burial place of local philanthropist William H. & Alice T. Miner."

This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2014. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice ’ s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! This post was inspired by a book in the museum ’ s collectio

Part of the Abraham Lincoln display at the Alice T. Miner Colonial Collection On April 16, 1863, Luther Miner wrote in a letter to his...

"This marker is to signify that Chazy School was the first central school in the State of New York and the U.S.A. Nov. 14, 1916."

"In 1905 Will Sweet designed and operated the first gas powered ferry on Lake Champlain named The Twins for his sons, Clinton and Gerald. In 1926 the larger Twin Boys was built and operated until 1937. This passage across northern Lake Champlain provided the key auto link between Montreal, NYC, and New England."

"Original Hamlet of Sciota: Post Office 1848, Railway Station 1852"

"Mill Sites from 1801 to 1900. 1869-1880 Wood Bros produced the Queen of the Harvest grain cleaning mills sold all over the U.S. and Canada"

"C. 1852 Plattsburgh-Montreal R.R. Station. Built c. 1852 as Chazy. 1876 became West Chazy. Second station built 1905-07."

"Lewis Saw Mill made lumber butter tubs churns pail sap buckets. 1883-1932 made apple barrels. In best year 22,000 apple barrels were made."

"c. 1818 Lawrence's Corners (now West Chazy). Lawrences settled c. 1818. Lawrence's Mills P.O. 1824. Col. P. Lawrence stone house built 1832 by Sam'l Baley."

"1799 Stephen Atwood 1772-1852. First settler West Chazy. Family farm since 1799. Stone house built 1827."

"1805 Log Home built by John B. Trombly who had a family of eleven. Oldest inhabited log home in Clinton County."