Rediscover History
Columbia County Historical Society
What's on this fall
Lynn Strunk Memorial Tea Party
Sunday, November 16, 2-4pm – in the newly reinstalled Vanderpoel House Museum, space will be limited, reserve your seat soon! $50 per person. Call 518 758-9265.
Sunday March 8, 1pm: Kinderhook Library, 18 Hudson St, Kinderhook
Dr. Kevin Bronner, Professor at University at Albany and author of “Albany During the American Revolution” will lecture on the aspects of the Tories and the Patriots in the Kinderhook area during the Revolutionary War.
Sunday March 29, 2pm: Hudson Area Library, 51 N 5th St, Hudson
Tom Shannon, Germantown Historian will be covering highlights of the tremendously insightful diary kept by one of the publicly prominent Loyalists, William Smith, Jr. (1728-1793) from October 1776 through July 1778 when he passed the early stages of the war under self-exile, and later house arrest, at the Hermitage, formerly located on Wire Road in Livingston.
Sunday April 19, 12:30pm: Kinderhook Library, 18 Hudson St, Kinderhook
Gregg Berninger, Ghent Town Historian will take a look at two hundred and fifty years of Ghent history through the truth of what the founding father’s saw as self-evident. Like every town in the county and country, the history of Ghent has been mostly steady progress toward “all men are created equal”. From enslavement to suffrage to wealth inequality, this far-ranging talk will make you rethink the past and the present in the terms laid out in the summer of 1776.
The National Union Bank of Kinderhook: A Village Institution
The Knox Train Comes Through Kinderhook!
2025 Annual Appeal
Your generosity supports our mission to preserve, interpret, and present the history and culture of Columbia County, NY.
39th Annual Gallery of Wreaths
A Silent Auction to Benefit the Columbia County Historical Society. December 5 – December 7, 2025. James Vanderpoel House
First Columbians 2026
The Columbia County Historical Society collects, preserves, interprets and shares the history and culture of Columbia County, New York.
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History & Heritage Magazine
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