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…
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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…
NYS Assemblyman Matt Simpson, Karen Peters and Town Supervisor Roy Holzer
On October 3rd, Wilmington had a special celebration to unveil a new roadside sign in Wilmington bringing the community together for fun with a common history! Even the weather cooperated, giving us respite from…
Cannon Prank event– we are ready in case of rain & see our newest artifact!
The Wilmington Historical Society will be prepared in case it rains with pop-up canopies, so please don’t let a little rain “showers forecast” for Sunday deter you from attending the event! Don’t miss it!…
Winner of the Gift Card Basket Raffle was Jess Ano of Wilmington!
It was a great day at the Festival of Colors on September 11th! Winner of the Gift Card Basket Raffle was Jess Ano of Wilmington! And winner of the 50/50 was Mary Fielder of…
HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR A SUCCESS!
On Thursday, August 19th, we had a great time on the Wilmington History Walking Tour! Even though the rain tried to stop us, we hardy Adirondackers pressed on with the event. 14 people attended…