Greater Oneonta Area Tourist Attractions
Museums
National Baseball Hall of
Fame
P.O. Box 590, Cooperstown, NY, (607) 547
- 7200
"The Hall of Fame is a place of grace and class ... You
arrive expecting to tour baseball's past. What you
discover is your own ..." Bergen Record
The birthplace of baseball has been established as
Cooperstown, New York, where folklore has it that Abner Doubleday
chased the cows out of Elihu Phinney's pasture on an
afternoon in 1839 and had the inspiration to invent a
game that quickly became the national pastime.
The
National Baseball Hall of Fame, dedicated 100 years
later, stands as the definitive repository of the game's
treasures and as a symbol of the most profound
individual honor bestowed on an athlete.
The Farmers' Museum and Fenimore Art Museum
P.O. Box 800, Lake Road,
Cooperstown, NY 13326, (607) 547 - 1400
In this age of computers and information "superhighways", it is difficult to
imagine life 150 years ago. Difficult but not impossible.
The Farmer's Museum in
Cooperstown takes one back to an era when life was more simple, before mass
production, and certainly before superhighways.
Fenimore Art Museum, with spacious grounds and gardened terraces overlooking
Otsego Lake, displays one of the country's finest collections of American art.
Built in the 1930's as a private residence (on the site of James Fenimore
Cooper's home), the elegant rooms house famous works of the Hudson River School
painters, extraordinary folk art, the Browere Bust Collection, and paintings and
furniture associated with America's first novelist, James Fenimore Cooper, and
his father, Judge William Cooper, founder of Cooperstown. The Fenimore House is
the headquarters of the New York State Historical Association.
Other Museums
NYS Civilian
Conservation Corps Museum: Gilbert Lake State Park,
Laurens, NY
Boswell
Museum: Musical exhibits, Rt. 80 East Springfield,
NY 13333
Cherry
Valley Museum: 49 Main Street, Cherry Valley, NY
13320
Edmeston Historical Museum: Indian artifacts,
North Street, Edmeston, NY 13335
Exeter Museum: Town history, Old Stone Church,
Rt. 28, Schuylerville, NY 13457
Museum of Natural History: Rt. 20, RD2, Box 751,
Richfield Springs, NY 13439
Old Middlefield Schoolhouse Museum: P.O.
Box 348Cooperstown, NY 13326
Roland B. Hill Museum: Indian artifacts, Main
Street, Otego, NY 13825
Sayre House: Milford historical artifacts,
Main Street, Milford, NY 13807
Science Discovery Center: SUNY Oneonta,
Oneonta, NY 13820
Swart-Wilcox House: Community museum, Wilcox Avenue,
Oneonta, NY 13820
Upper Susquehanna Historical Association:
Susquehanna Region artifacts
Yager Museum of Art
and Culture: Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
13820
Area Tourism Information:
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The following chronicle
of tourism and tourist attractions was taken, in part,
from a brochure entitled, "Otsego County, Central
Leatherstocking Region", published by the Otsego
County Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce is
located at 12 Carbon Street, Oneonta, New York. For
additional information regarding the Chamber and
attractions available in Oneonta and Otsego County,
please feel free to call the Chamber of Commerce at
(800) 843 - 3394.
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