Corn and Craft Festival Corn and Craft Festival is held on the third Saturday in August. In 2000 it will be held on Saturday, August 19. The festival displays beautiful and original crafts. Programs Hurley Heritage Society holds its programs on the third Thursday of February, April, June, September, and November. The meetings are held at Schadewald Hall at the Reformed Church of Hurley on Main Street in Hurley.
Programs provide speakers, videos, and music regarding the history of our region.
Join the Hurley Heritage Society. Your dues and donations are tax deductable. The first inhabitants of Hurley were the Esopus Indians of the Algonquin Nation. Discontented with their treatment by the Dutch, the Indians burned the settlement in 1663, killing three men and taking thirty-five prisoners. Within the year, all were recaptured, unharmed and peace was restored.