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 were rediscovered in our collections. A huge thank you goes out to Mary Kay Stone, Deb Allen, and the volunteers of the Oswego History Records Center, who have painstakingly scanned and processed these remarkable documents into our digital archive this year.

Also in this issue: museum assistant Jacob Maloney reflects on our nation's Bicentennial; highlighting partner historical societies and museums; 250 years of Oswego County history in images from our collections, and more.

Looking forward to seeing you in our 2026 season!

Eva Corradino
​President, Board of Trustees

Newsletter Highlights

FEATURE STORY The John Laurance Papers Mary Kay Stone unveils the Society's John Laurance Papers collection, showing Oswego's connection to our Founding Fathers.

FEATURE STORY 250 Years of Oswego County in Images Museum assistant Jacob Maloney and intern Merin Hemminger step us through the history of our county through iconic images.

INTERVIEW Deb Allen: Honoring our Revolutionary Past Andrea Vickery interviews Oswego County Historian Deb Allen about local history, her own history, America250 and more.