News as of 12/31/19
Happy New Year from your friends at the Walworth Historical Society. The current display at the Walworth Town Hall assembled by Bob Mogray & Judy McMillan. Photos from our Soup & Spiritualism program have...
Author: Gene Bavis
Program Meeting – “The Hamlet of Lincoln, NY” – CANCELLED
Due to COVID-19, all programs for the remainder of 2020 sponsored by the WHS have been cancelled. We will have this program sometime next year. At 2:00 PM on Sunday, October 18, the Walworth...
Facts about Veterans Day
Here is a fact sheet we have borrowed from the Defense Dept. website. It contains some facts that some folks don’t know. Veterans Day
News 10/7/19
On October 6, we had a successful Open House program. Please see “Recent Events” Our next Event is “Soup & Spiritualism.” Please see the blog under Programs. On April 16, the Wayne County Board...
Fall Open House – October 6, 2019 – 2 to 4 PM
Our annual fall open house at the museum will be held Sunday, October 6 from 2 – 4 PM and will feature music, food, displays and demos – plus a few surprises. Group Therapy,...
Soup & Spiritualism on 11/18/19 at 1 PM
Our regular November meeting will be held on Monday, 11/18/19 at 1 PM at The Lodge in Ginegaw Park, Penfield Rd, Walworth. The program will begin with a FREE lunch consisting of homemade soups,...
NEWS as of 10/3/19
We hope you will attend our Fall Open House on 10/6. See details on another page. On April 16, the Wayne County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution establishing a Wayne County Bicentennial Committee....
Iron Ore Mining & Manufacturing in Ontario presented by Liz Albright on 9/16/19
On Monday, September 16 at 7:30 PM, the Walworth Historical Society’s program held at the WHS Museum at 2257 Academy Street in Walworth will feature Ontario Town Historian, Liz Albright making a presentation about...
ONLINE Resources you may find interesting – Update 4/22/19
We recently had a request from the Wayne County New York Genealogical Society to provide them with a list of our resources that would be of interest to genealogists and others researching family histories....
The Digital Age and YOU
The Walworth Historical Society is in the “business” of collecting information about our Town. We are interested in the past (not just WAY back, but more recently, too). We would like to have photos...