Events
History Presentations
The Society sponsors lectures and presentations featuring stimulating local and regional speakers. These programs are monthly during the year starting in September and running through May and take place on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.
The location of the lectures is the Museum's lower level. Although the main level of the Museum is handicapped accessible, the lower level is not. Often presentations are held at the Fairport Library or the Perinton Community Center for this reason.
Programs are free and open to the public.
Please see the sidebar article or the calendar to confirm dates, time and location.
Board of Trustee Meetings
The governing body of the Society meets monthy on the third tuesday of the month from August to May. Meetings are at 7 p.m. and generally are located in the lower level of the Museum which is not handicapped accessable. These meetings are open to all members.
Please check the calendar for dates and locations.
Historic Tours
The Society has organized and sponsored over thirty house tours. Each one consists of six to eight properties including homes, barns, churches and commercial properties.
Once held in the fall, the tours are now held in April each year and are included with Society membership. Tickets are also available for non-members.
For three years, the tours have focused on areas of the Village that are within walking distance of each other. They involved South Main and East Church in ‘06, West Ave in 07 and the Faircroft Subdivision in ’08. The latest tour in '09 was held in the Hamlet of Egypt.
See the calendar for dates of upcoming tours and enjoy brief discriptions of past tours on the Historic Tours section of the site.
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September 21, 2010 Program
The History of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office: 1821 - Present
On September 21, at 7:30, Todd Allen will present an hour-long presentation that covers 189 years of service to the residents of the County of Monroe in pictures and stories. From the earliest days of frontier Rochesterville to the modern communities which make up Monroe County.... from an exotic island jail where the condemned swung from the hangman's noose to modern penal programs...from horse and buggy patrols to the use of high horsepower police cruisers; Attendees will learn about the job of the Sheriff and his deputies as it has evolved through the years.
Todd Allen is the Quartermaster, Procurement Officer and Historian for the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. A thirteen-year veteran, Quartermaster Allen commands a unit responsible for supply and logistics support to over 1,200 employees and 1,400 inmates. Through innovation, standardization and a commitment to Total Customer Satisfaction, the Quartermaster Unit has brought great credit upon the Office of Sheriff and in 2003; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
Quartermaster Allen lectures to several civic organizations and groups annually.
The presentation will be at the Museum at 18 Perrin Street on the lower level.
Greenvale Cemetery Tour – Tuesday June 8, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Join Civil War genealogist Vicki Profitt as she lead a tour through Fairport's Greenvale Cemetery, located on East Church Street in the Village of Fairport on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Discover a soldier who served under Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in the famed 54th Massachusetts Volunteers, which was the subject of the movie Glory. Meet a 16 year old drummer boy who enlisted in the 108th NY Infantry. Learn which Fairport veteran was a caretaker at the cottage where President Ulysses S. Grant died.
These local soldiers and more will be illuminated in a one-hour walking tour of Greenvale. We will meet at the entrance to the cemetery at 7 p.m. Please wear comfortable shoes.
Vicki Profitt has researched the Civil War soldiers of Monroe County since 2008. Her Illuminated History blog, http://www.illumhistory.wordpress.com, highlights the research process and illuminates the lives of the unsung Civil War heroes from our own community.
Parking available at the church across from the cemetery.
Exhibits
1817 Maps on Display
On display in the Museum are copies of the original maps used in support of the building of an interior canal from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. The bill in the legislature was passed and the Erie Canal was built.
Maps 13 and 14 of the 1817 maps by James Geddes, showing the proposed canal route across the Town of Perinton will be on display in the Museum. They were acquired for the museum from the NYS Archives by Bill Keeler, Museum Director and Curator, and are part of a set of maps tracking the western part of the proposed Erie Canal.
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