Articles
The Hobart Historical Society received the 2006 Award of Merit from the Delaware County Historical Association for its contribution to the preservation and presentation of local history.
Abraham’s Flock
Abraham’s Flock – A History of One Branch of the Adams Family. Donated by Wallace Rich, CT Index
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Hobart in the Catskill Mountains – 1913
An interesting read from the collection of Dorothy M. Marshall.
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Advertisement from 1894 for a Baby Carriage
Among the items on display at the Hobart Historical Center is a wicker baby carriage owned by the Rich family in the late 19th century. It was donated by Wallace Rich, whose father and uncle, Wallace H. and Walter Rich, twin sons of Stephen and Mary Hanford Rich, were born in 1894. The infant pictured
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Montgomery dies at Auburn Article
MONTGOMERY DIES AT AUBURN. Montgomery Murder of 1901 Happened Here. THE WALTON REPORTER, MAY 11, 1907 HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FROM BRIGHT’S DISEASE. His Imprisonment Told on Him and Finally Wore Him Out. Buried at Home – Harvey D. Montgomery died in the prison hospital at Auburn, Sunday Night, May 5th, aged 65
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1941 Folk Art Project South Kortright Central School
This work of Folk Art was designed and produced by students at South Kortright Central School in 1941, and was displayed at the School Fair on September 26, 1941, according to an article in the Stamford Mirror Recorder the following month. It was donated to the Hobart Historical Society by Bovina auctioneer, Charles McIntosh. It
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United Methodist Church History
HOBART & TOWNSHIP UNITED METHODIST No history of any Methodist Church is complete without reference to the vital beginnings of Methodism. Early one evening in May, 1738, John Wesley met with as small group in a little room on Aldersgate Street in London. There, as he listened to the leader read Luther’s preface to the
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Hearthstone closes after 42 Years
HEARTHSTONE CLOSES AFTER 42 YEARS AS ADULT HOME By Celin Schoen The “House on the Hill” in Hobart will be entering its third incarnation, but no one yet knows what that will be. Known as The Hearthstone Adult Home, the house was originally built in 1884 as the summer home for William H. and “Lizzie”
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ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
In 1794, the Rev. Walter Clark Gardner, rector of the church in Hudson, took a vacation trip through the Catskills and stopped in what was then known as Watertown, now Hobart. Here on the evening of St. Peter’s Day, June 29, “finding a number of earnest church people, I was persuaded to give a church
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Presbyterian Church of Hobart
THE HOBART PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH A BRIEF HISTORY By Helen Rich and Ola Cowan Written in October 1975 Our deepest roots in this country go back to August 1773, when Alexander Leal, John McKenzie and Daniel McGilverie left their homes in Scotland to seek a better life in the New World. They left their families in
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The Pillars was Landmark Hotel
The two-story apartment building on Main St. at Cornell Ave. has changed hands many times since it was built more than a century ago. In addition to serving as a hotel, it housed a teen recreation center and village library for many years, and provided the setting for community dinners and bazaars even after the
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