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History Scavenger Hunt 2026: Public Universal Friend Edition
Gather your friends, challenge your other friends, hop in the car, explore local history, and join Yates County History Center's annual History Scavenger Hunt. The fun starts when teams receive their brochures with clues on Friday, May 1 and continues until Sunday, May 31 when teams must submit their answers. Teams will receive points for correctly answering the questions. Participation costs $25 for a team of four people and $10 for each additional team member, and teams must register in order to receive their brochure. Registration starts April 1. Registration is permitted any time before May 29. Please call (315) 536.7318 to register by paying in advance; payment is accepted over the phone or in person.
The scavenger hunt provides a fun way to learn about our local history while competing against other teams to see who knows the most. Because this year marks the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Society of Universal Friends, this year’s clues will lead you to sites connected to the Public Universal Friend in some way. Join us for the fun! |
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Children's Room
The youngest visitors to the Yates County History Center now have a fun filled room just for them. The children’s room at the Oliver House Museum is now open for everyone’s enjoyment.
Executive Director Tricia Noel noted that past visitors to the History Center had asked about child friendly activities in Yates County. “We are very pleased to offer a fun learning experience for our youngest guests. The agricultural theme is a salute to our farming friends and neighbors.”
The dedicated room on the second floor of the Oliver House Museum is painted a colorful blue and decorated with images of young farm animals. Children are invited to come and meet Betsy the cow and harvest apples off a tree. Betsy, a holstein dairy cow, stands four feet tall. A raised bed veggie patch is filled with carrots for kids to harvest and apple tree for picking apples. Puzzles, books, a chicken coop and barn are all available for visitors to play with.
Betsy the Cow was handcrafted and donated by Oak Grove Woodworking and students from Penn Yan Academy constructed and donated this vibrant apple tree.
Digital Resources
The Spencer Research Center located on the first floor of the L. Caroline Underwood Museum now has a computer dedicated to making available our digital resources which include all of the Yates County newspapers available to us and over 6,000 photographs. All are indexed and easily searched.
Visit our changing selection of photographs.
Included in a Yates County History Center membership is the on-site use of the Spencer Research Center. |
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 Becoming a Member
Becoming of member of Yates County History Center makes it possible to continue our mission to collect, preserve, interpret and share the history of Yates County's people, places and events.
Our work and present level of programming is supported largely by financial support through membership and contributing donors.
We appreciate the business members who care about local history and are helping us in our mission to collect, preserve and promote Yates County's rich heritage. Please patronize these friends of YCHC. |
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