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| 1 Adirondack Museum | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Mixture of indoor and outdoor exhibits on 32 acre site. Logging, mining, boating, transport, fresh water boating. Extensive photographic collection | Address Rt 30 PO Box 99 Blue Mountain Lake, New York 12812 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Albany Closest Interstate: I-87 Closest Airport: Albany ALB | Contact Phone 518 352-7311 | ||||||||||||
| 2 East Hampton Historical Society | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: The Society runs six museums, four of them clustered in or near Main Street in East Hampton. Mulford Farm was occupied from 1680 to to 1949 and has a 1790 appearance today, with interpreters | Address 101 Main Street Mulford Farm 10James Lane East Hampton, New York 11937 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: New York (100 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 27 to I-495 Long Island Expressway Closest Airport: Islip ISP | Contact Phone 631 324-6869 | ||||||||||||
| 3 Erie Canal Village | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Recreated mid-1800s village focused on the Erie Canal, which offers packet boat and narrow gauge train rides. Among the buildings such as a church, one room school, tavern and other buildings | Address 5789 New London Rd Rome, New York 13440 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Syracuse (45 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 49 to I-90 Closest Airport: Utica UCA (Continental only) Syracuse SYR | Contact Phone 315 337-3999 | ||||||||||||
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| 4 Farmer's Museum | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: The Main Barn Museum houses exhibits and craftspeople who make brooms, do woodworking, and spin thread and produce fabric. Beyond the barn is a 19th century village of buildings | Address Rt 80 Lake Road PO Box 304 Cooperstown, New York 13326 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Schenectady (60 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 80 to I-88 exit 16 Closest Airport: Utica UCA (Continental only); Albany ALB | Contact Phone 607 547-1500 Toll free 888 547-1450 | ||||||||||||
| 5 Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Replica of 1754 fort and settlement. | Address Rt 97 Narrowsburg, New York 12764 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Scranton, PA (50 mi) Closest Major Road: SR 652 to US 6, I-84 Closest Airport: Wilkes-Barre Scranton | Contact Phone 914 252-6660 | ||||||||||||
| 6 Fort Ontario State Historic Site | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Fort, restored to 1868 appearance, was built, rebuilt, empty, and regarrisoned several times between 1755 and 1946. The orientation exhibit in the Enlisted Men's Barracks explains this history | Address 1 East Fourth Street Oswego, New York 13126 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Syracuse (40 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 104, I-81 exi 33 Closest Airport: Syracuse SYR | Contact Phone 315 343-4711 | ||||||||||||
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| 7 Fort Stanwix National Monument | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Reconstructed wooden stockade fort originally build in 1758, this fort was intended to protect settlers in the Mohawk Valley. | Address 112 E Park St Rome, New York 13440 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Syracuse (45 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 49 to I-90 Closest Airport: Utica UCA (Continental only) Syracuse SYR | Contact Phone 315-336-2090 | ||||||||||||
| 8 Fort Ticonderoga | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Stone fort at the foot of Lake Champlain built in 1755, Fort Carillon (as the French builders named it) was the focus of military activity in the area in both the French and Indian War and the America | Address Fort Rd Ticonderoga, New York 12883 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Burlington, VT (50 mi); Glens Falls (50 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 84 to I-87 exit 28 Closest Airport: Rutland, VT RUT (US Airways only); Burlington VT BTV | Contact Phone 518 585-2821 | ||||||||||||
| 9 Fort William Henry | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Site of the massacre of a surrendered garrison in 1757, the reconstructed fort now has costumed guides for tours and musket and cannon demonstrations, | Address 48 Canada St Lake George, New York 12845 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Glens Falls (10 mi) Closest Interstate: I-87 exit 22 Closest Airport: Albany ALB | Contact Phone 518 668-3081 Toll free 800 234-0265 | ||||||||||||
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| 10 Genesee Country Village & Museum | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: represents village of the 1820-1830 period. Costumed interpreters and crafts people. | Address 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford, New York 14511 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Rochester (25 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 383 to I-90 exit 47 Closest Airport: Buffalo Niagara Intl BUF | Contact Phone 716 538-6822 | ||||||||||||
| 11 Historic Richmond Town | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: This was the former County Seat, and restoration was begun with the conversion of the 1848 County Clerk's and Surrogate's Office to a museum. Other buildings were restored on site or moved | Address 441 Clarke Avenue Staten Island, New York 10306 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Staten Island Closest Interstate: Richmond Parkway Closest Airport: LaGuardia LGA | Contact Phone 718 351-1611 | ||||||||||||
| 12 Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: This museum is anchored by the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid and includes the destroyer U.S.S. Edson and guided missile submarine U.S.S. Growler. | Address Pier 86 12th Ave & 46th St New York, New York 10036 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: New York Closest Interstate: 12th Ave, Lincoln Tunnel Closest Airport: LaGuardia LGA | Contact Phone 212 245-0072 | ||||||||||||
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| 13 Huguenot Street | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: A complex of house museums, dating from 1692-1890 There are five Colonial era houses, a Federal house and a late Victorian house with the French Church and burial ground, museum, gallery, and carriage | Address 18 Broadhead Rd New Paltz, New York 12561 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Poughkeepsie (12 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 299(Main st) to I-87 exit 18 Closest Airport: Poughkeepsie POU (Continental only); Newburgh SWF | Contact Phone 914 255-1660 | ||||||||||||
| 14 Museum Village at Old Smith's Clove | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Recreated village with 25 exhibition and demonstration buildings Very active craft program, many costumed interpreters and craftspeople demonstrating activities | Address 1010 Museum Village Dr Monroe, New York 10950 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Newburgh (20 mi) Closest Interstate: US 6 to I-87 Closest Airport: Newburgh SWF | Contact Phone 914 782-8247 | ||||||||||||
| 15 New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Continental Army headquarters in the winter of 1782-1783, this is where Washington issued the cease fire orders end the war here in April 1783. Staff in period dress and uniforms | Address 374 Temple Hill Rd PO Box 207 New Windsor, New York 12584 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Newburgh (2 mi) Closest Interstate: I-87 Closest Airport: Newburgh SWF | Contact Phone 845 561-1765 | ||||||||||||
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| 16 Old Bethpage Village Restoration | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: This village spreads across the 100 acre site with costumed interpreters in the crossroads general store, and blacksmith shop, the Powell farm, the church and schoolhouse and other homes and shops | Address Round Swamp Road Old Bethpage, New York 11804 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: New York (35 mi) Closest Interstate: I-495 exit 48 Closest Airport: Islip ISP | Contact Phone 516 572-8400 | ||||||||||||
| 17 Old Fort Niagara State Historic Site | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Built by the French in 1726, this stone fort has the oldest buildings in the Great Lakes region. Today it features living history programs. | Address PO Box 169 Youngstown, New York 14174 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Niagara Falls (15 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 18 (Robert Moses Parkway) Closest Airport: Buffalo BUF | Contact Phone 716 745-7611 | ||||||||||||
| 18 Philipsburg Manor | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: More a working complex than a manor house, today the stone manor building (which was always the business headquarters) has 17th and 18th century furnishings and the site has a working grist mill | Address 381 N Broadway Tarrytown, New York 10591 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: White Plains (10 mi) Closest Interstate: SR 9 to I-87 Closest Airport: White Plains HPN | Contact Phone 914 631-8200 | ||||||||||||
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| 19 Sainte Marie Among the Iroquois | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Site contains a visitor center with life size Native fishing hut and a re-created 1657 French mission to the Iroquois. Costumed characters portray the blacksmith, cooks, woodworkers and other crafts | Address Rt 370 PO Box 146 Liverpool, New York 13088 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Syracuse (6 mi) Closest Interstate: I-90 exit 38 Closest Airport: Syracuse SYR | Contact Phone 315 453-6767 | ||||||||||||
| 20 South Street Seaport Museum | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: Ship museum located in an eleven square block historic district in Lower Manhattan | Address 207 Front St New York, New York 10038 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: New York (lower Manhattan) Closest Major Road: South Street VIa, Brooklyn Bridge Closest Airport: Newark NJ | Contact Phone 212 748-8600 | ||||||||||||
| 21 Southampton Historical Museum | Click here for hours, admission fees, details of what's there, local lodging, local information & nearby things to do | ||||||||||||
| Description: he complex holds a museum with Colonial artifacts dating to 1640 and Shinnecock and Montauk relics. There is a one room school house and a barn with several collections including whaling implements | Address 17 Meeting House Lane Southampton, New York 11968 | ||||||||||||
| General Location: Closest City: Queens (85 mi) Closest Interstate: Montauk Highway to SR 27 (Sunrise Hwy) to I-495 (Long Island Expressway Closest Airport: Islip ISP | Contact Phone 631 283-2494 | ||||||||||||
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