Standing proudly on Main Street in Penn Yan is the anchor building of the Yates County History Center, the Oliver House Museum, one of four buildings comprising the YCHC. The Center, formerly Yates County Genealogical & Historical Society, is one of the oldest in NYS, has been actively collecting, preserving and interpreting history since 1860. Continue reading about us...

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Musicians of Yates County

Musicians of Yates County   Musicians of Yates County   Musicians of Yates County
         
Musicians of Yates County   Musicians of Yates County   Musicians of Yates County
         

 

Children of Yates County

Girl and Turtle
Girl and Turtle

 

Girls with Older Ladies
Girls with Older Ladies

 

Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts

Little Girl
Little Girl

 

Smiling Child
Smiling Child

 

Boy in Dress
Boy in Dress

Brother and Sister
Brother and Sister

 

Sisters
Sisters

   

 

Women of Yates County

1870 Girls
1870

 

Angel Adelmar
Angel Adelmar

 

Cook-Aspinwall 1860
Cook-Aspinwall 1860

Cora Aspinwall
Cora Aspinwall

 

Edith Bentley
Edith Bentley

 

Floydine Carley Tomkinson
Floydine Carley Tomkinson

Frankie Merson
Frankie Merson

 

Joanna Wagener
Joanna Wagener

 

Julia Hazen
Julia Hazen

Mary Rice
Mary & Marian Rice

 

Mrs. Corcoran
Mrs. Corcoran

 

Tears Sisters Grape Tying
Tears Sisters Grape Tying

 

Faces That Shaped Yates County

Ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes from the 1860s

Margaret Smith Orr 1860s

Margaret Smith Orr

 

Robert Orr 1860s

Robert Orr

John Faulkner 1860s

John Faulkner 1787 - 1863

 

Mother and Child 1860s

Mother and Child 1860s

Mr. Smith 1860s

Mr. Smith

 

Union Soldier 1860s

Unidentified Union Soldier

 

Winter in Penn Yan

Winter in Penn Yan

 

 

Winter in Penn Yan

 

Winter in Penn Yan

 

 

Winter in Penn Yan

 

Winter in Penn Yan   Winter in Penn Yan

 

Businesses

Birkett Mills, Penn Yan

Birkett Mills, Main Street

 

Elm Street, Penn Yan

Elm Street

Main Street, Penn Yan

Main Street

 

Elm Street, Penn Yan

Elm Street

Elm Street, Penn Yan

Elm Street

 

Elm Street, Penn Yan

Elm Street

 

Sports Teams

PYA boys' tennis team, circa 1940

PYA boys' tennis team, circa 1940

 

T&C Restaurant baseball team, circa 1955

T&C Restaurant baseball team, circa 1955

PYA girls' basketball team, 1901

PYA girls' basketball team, 1901

 

PYA baseball team, 1905

PYA baseball team, 1905

PYA football team, circa 1940

 

Penn Yan Academy boys' basketball team, 1918-1919

Penn Yan Academy boys' basketball team, 1918-1919

 

 


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107 Chapel Street, Penn Yan, NY 14527
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