Plan a Visit
The Museum is open Memorial Weekend through Columbus Day
Monday - Saturday, 9-5 and Sunday, 1-5
We're located in the old school building at the corner of Rte. 9N and Hand Ave. in Elizabethtown, NY.
The Brewster Library is open all year by appointment only.

Essex County Historical Society
Adirondack History Center Museum
PO Box 428, Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY 12932
(518)873-6466, echs@adkhistorycenter.org

Click for a MAP of the area.

The Collection
The Adirondack History Center Museum displays artifacts from over two centuries of life in Essex County and the central Adirondacks. The diverse collection includes:

- Artifacts from 18th century forts at Crown Point
- An 1850's Washington printing press
- An 1887 Concord stagecoach
- A 1920's stage curtain advertising area businesses
- An extensive collection of antique dolls
- An iron bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games
- An Adirondack lean-to
- A 58 foot Fire Observation Tower to climb
- Special events and exhibits

The Colonial Garden
Created in 1956 and adjacent to the museum, the Colonial Garden features many varieties of flowers, native plants, trees and shrubs in a formal setting patterned after the gardens of Hampton Court, England and Colonial Williamsburg.