2025-2026 Annual Appeal
Donate to the Construction Fund Greetings, How do you make history come alive in your life? We first received an email from Jeff in April of 2025. He was researching his Wilmington Cooper and…
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2025 Whiskey Run & Festival a Success!
Thank you from the Wilmington Historical Society! We would like to thank all of our sponsors, swag item donors, raffle donors, Whiskey distilleries, Craft Fair participants, the Moonshine Hollow Bluegrass Band, the War of…
2024-2025 Annual Appeal
Donate to the Construction Fund The WHS annually collaborates with the Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society and the Lake Placid Elementary School on a 4th grade History Fair. The students each choose an artifact…
WHS Receives $697,000 Grant!
Wilmington Historical Society Receives $697,000 Construction Grant! The Wilmington Historical Society is thrilled to announce that it has received a grant in the amount of $697,000 from the New York State Council on the…
2023-2024 Annual Appeal
Donate to the Construction Fund Greetings, When we first met Rosemary Vargas, she was responding to our call for volunteers published in the Jay Community News in the Spring of 2022. With her strong…
Winner of the 2023 Gift Card Basket Raffle
Congratulations to Coco Dunmire of Wilmington, NY Winner of Wilmington Historical Society’s 2023 Gift Card Basket Raffle!
2022 Town of Wilmington’s Citizen of the Year
The Wilmington Historical Society is pleased to announce that we have been chosen as the 2022 Town of Wilmington’s Citizen of the Year because of all of our work on the Bicentennial! Special honors…
2022-2023 Annual Appeal
Donate to the Construction Fund Greetings, Wow! What a year! As the community joined together to celebrate our 200 years of Wilmington history, history was created. Connections were made between our past and our…
Wilmington Bicentennial 1822-2022 Official Resolution
200th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TOWN OF WILMINGTON, NEW YORK— RESOLUTION Town Resolution/Essex County Board of Supervisors/ NYS Assembly/ NYS Senate BY: TOWN SUPERVISOR ROY HOLZER AND THE WILMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY COMMEMORATING the 200th Anniversary…
Land Update- What’s Going On There?
As you can see by the photos, we have a lot going on with our land thanks to our new neighbor behind us. We have been fortunate indeed with the cooperation and pro-bono work…