The Society owns an doperates thr5ee historic properties, open to the public during the summer season, and a museum, open year-round.
Visitors can easily enjoy discovering Columbia County's history at all of the sites in one day.
Shop online at the Architectural Parts Warehouse. Programs are held at the Town Library or historic sites relating to area history. The History Keepers' Companion is your gateway into this sometimes hidden world, revealing the details of who, what and where, as well as how much. Generations of immigrants have settled here to tap the resources of this area and create some of the most renowned industries of the 19th century America. Iron, steel, shirts and collars, agricultural machinery, gun powder and Prussian blue pigments were all produced in Rensselaer County.