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Oswego County Historical Society

The Oswego County Historical Society is on a mission to be the premier local resource for education and information about the entirety of Oswego County, its culture, history, and social development. We were founded in 1896, and are headquartered in the historic Richardson-Bates House Museum in Oswego, N.Y.

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🔔 Oswego County Historical Society is now on Kit!

Welcome to Kit! Oswego County Historical Society is happy to be moving to Kit for all future email blasts to our mailing list. We're transitioning away from Mailchimp for a number of reasons, rising costs and changes to their platform being the primary ones. We hope that Kit offers a better experience to our email subscribers, and help make signing up for our mailing list easier going forward! If you've been a subscriber to our mailing list, your information should have transitioned over...

18 days ago • 1 min read
Scene from the Safe Haven Emergency Refugee Shelter, depicting some of the 982 refugees housed at Fort Ontario from Aug. 1944 to Feb. 1946.

Oil painting of Mexico Point c.1883, by unknown Mexico teacher. (69.434). Digitized by fall intern Merin Hemminger. How quickly 2025 has passed! It’s been a busy year, full of tours, events, new faces to our Board of Trustees, and more. What’s old is new again! We continue to fulfill our mission to educate, promote, and interpret Oswego County History. We are proud to present this special America 250 newsletter edition, where we're unveiling some very old and very important documents that...

18 days ago • 1 min read