Educational

Season: YR
Exhibits in The Ruplin Gallery by local and regional artists. The Book Arts Collection contains examples of books that are mainly unusual for the quality of the hand work and materials that have gone into them.

Price: Free

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Located in the Town Hall the library offers exhibits by local and regional artists and students.

Price: Free

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72 acre facility; Museum features wildlife exhibits of native mammals and birds; children's activity room. Nature programs, Butterfly and perennial gardens, birding, honeybees, Maple sugaring, woodworking. Hiking, picnic shelter. Guided snowshoe hikes.

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Learn about building and operation of a model railroad. Train memorabilia, four layouts from N to G and library. Activities include monthly open houses, weekly operating sessions and an annual train show.

Price: Free

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Season: YR
View hatchery operation; interpretive film, visitor center. Staff guided and self guided tours, birding canoe access, fishing, picnic; pavilion rental available. Free.

Price: Free

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Warrensburg's history from 1780's to present featuring agriculture, industry, recreation and home life including antique clothing, furniture, quilts, displays of famous "locals". Hours vary. Like us on Facebook.

Price: Free

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Season: YR, July-Aug, Mon-Sat, 10am-4pm; Sun, 12-4pm; Sep-June, Wed-Sat, 10am-4pm; Sun, 12-4pm; Open Martin Luther King Day and Columbus Day holidays
go! where children discover the world, interactive exhibitions, youth and family programs. International Youth Art Exchange and outreach programs.

Price: $

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Season: YR
Learn the arts, crafts and traditions of the Adirondacks. Artisan exhibits, concerts, lectures, programs.

Price: Free/$

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Featuring The Sembrich Film Series, and a Gigantic Book Sale every summer!

Price: Free

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Season: May-Oct
A rich collection of artifacts covering 200 years of town history. Exhibits on local hotels, ice harvesting, commercial and recreational boating, town development, famous residents and more.

Price: Free

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Season: YR
Opened in July of 1906 as the Caldwell-Lake George Library with books, etc transferred from The Lake George Free Library and the DeWitt C Hay Library.

Price: Free

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Season: YR
Restored Victorian home of prominent Glens Falls merchant, Zopher DeLong. Changing exhibits of southeastern Adirondacks, guided tours of the home furnished as it would have been a century ago. Displays of images by photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard from its collection of several thousand images on a rotating basis. Research archive and museum shop.

Price: Donation

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Season: YR
History of Hague, the once booming town of Graphite and the mining operation. Gallery and museum featuring local Adirondack artists. Free.

Price: Free

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Season: YR
Serving Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties. History and cultural programs, Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, ongoing art exhibitions, films, lectures, workshops. Genealogical resources.

Price: Free

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Season: May-Labor Day, Sat only.
Museum of local and Dean family history, artifacts, photos. Free.

Price: Free

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Season: May-Oct
Historical walking tours offered in various locations including Lake George by period attired guides. Designed to meet your interests, several itineraries are available. Reservations.

Price: $

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Beginning of historic towpath trail and waterway at Feeder Dam, Richardson St and Haviland Ave. Listed on New York State and National Register of Historic Places, National Recreation Trail system. Walk, bike, paddle; cross-country skiing, snowshoe.

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Restored Colonial fortress 1755-1757 French & Indian War era. Guided and self-guided tour; children can join the King's Army. Living history demonstrations including Native American leather work, beading and stories of Native peoples of the area.

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Season: July-Aug, Fri-Sat; Sep-June, Sat
Displays features the Wayside Inn Hotel register signed by Ulysses S. Grant and Sarah Bernhart, celebrated Adirondack guide Ira Gray. The Adirondack Room, history in & around Lake Luzerne, local commerce, logging industry, early farming, tourism.

Price: Donation

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Season: July-Columbus Day
Open pit garnet mine tours, specimen collecting, rock exhibit, mine history, geology lecture.

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Season: YR
Our farm features a range of animals, from pets to show champion alpacas; we offer breedings and guidance. We call our charmers "Unicorns without Horns"! Learn about the "Alpaca Lifestyle", free tours, handicap accessible. Gift shop. Free.

Price: Free

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Season: YR
Local and regional artists, changing exhibits. Concerts, lectures, and history programs. Wi-Fi.

Price: Free

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Established in 1899 in an 1860's schoolhouse and charted in 1901, the library is home to a collection of historical and rare books on the Adirondacks, and their original Seneca Ray Stoddard photographs. Exhibits and displays by local and regional artists and artisans.

Price: Free

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Season: YR
In 1907 the stone and wood building which first housed the Horicon Free Public Library was completed and inscribed as the Heintzelman Library. In 2001, the Town built a Community Center, including a larger library.

Price: Free

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Season: June, Sat only; July-Aug, Tue, Thur, Sat.
Adirondack pioneer home life is presented in a 9-room restored farmhouse filled with local history. Includes collection of antique clothing, furniture, china, quilts and old photographs; Horse-drawn farm equipment, old tools, boats. Free.

Price: Free

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12-acre park, marshland walkway, educational signage, botanical gardens, fishing, passive recreation, picnic and play area.

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Season: YR; Jan-May, Wed-Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, 12-5pm. June-Dec, Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun 12-5pm.
Historic house and art museum complex combines Adirondack heritage with a distinguished permanent collection of European old and modern masters, American artists, decorative arts, antique furnishings. In 2012 Hyde House, former home of museum founders Charlotte and Louis Hyde celebrates 100 years as a public museum. Changing exhibits, lectures, concerts, museum store; Wednesday, free, exceptions may apply.

Price: $

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Season: July-Aug, Wed
2-hr educational aquatic adventure on Lake George. Max 30 people, reservations.

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Season: July-Aug
Exciting dramatization of the famous James Fenimore Cooper novel about the French and Indian War. Native dancing, musket and cannon fire, passion and patriotism. Elaborate historical costumes. Performed on the very ground that saw real historic action.

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Season: YR
Certified tree farm practicing silviculture to promote sustainable forestry management, woods walks, sawmill demonstrations and more. Free.

Price: Free

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Season: Memorial Day - Columbus Day
Largest marble cave entrance in the east. Self-guided tour, caves, waterfall, geological wonders. Guided spelunking adventure tour by reservation. Snowshoe Adventure, self-guided tours; evening moonlight guided tours; snowshoe rentals available, reservations required.

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Season: 12pm
50 acre goat and sheep farm and cheese company. We make several varieties of soft goat cheeses. Visitors with a love of animals and cheese are welcome for tours Saturday ONLY.

Price: Free

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Relive the Birth of a Great Nation. Self-guided tour of some of the most important sites of the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars. Over 40 historic sites includes authentically restored forts and grand government buildings.

Price: Free

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All Trails Lead to New York State. In colonial and revolutionary America, New York State was at the crossroads of the growing nation and history. Self-guided tour highlights over 40 historic sites.

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Self-guided tour from Native American perspective of French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars. Highlights Iroquois, Mohican Oneida, Seneca, and others. Learn more of the valiant struggles and invaluable contributions of the Native American people.

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Waterways were the natural superhighways of the late 18th century. Relive our legacy, travel and explore. Self-guided tour of these historic waterways used during the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars.

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Season: May - September
Historic train station where Vice President Roosevelt departed from the Adirondacks on Sept 14, 1901 to Buffalo where he was sworn in as the 26th President. History of alpine skiing, mining & historical train diorama. Local interest exhibits.

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Season: End May-Oct
Enjoy a guided historic walking tour along Main Street with a local historian. Begin at the Nationally recognized historic railroad station where Theodore Roosevelt learned he was the 26th President. Listen to stories of life in the Adirondacks - logging, tanneries, and mining. Look for the yellow umbrella! Reservations suggested.

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2,500 acre environmental demonstration forest maintained by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Self-guided 1-mi Grandmother's Tree Nature Trail. Mountain biking, canoeing and kayaking, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

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Season: July-Aug, Sat-Sun only
Museum of industrial machinery, photos. Houses the first American made grinding machine made by Bagley & Sewell of Watertown. Free.

Price: Free

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Season: May-Oct, check website
Five miniature worlds of model trains in a 5,000 sq ft exhibit space including 50 trains, trolleys, animations, computer lighting, scenery and backdrops. Exhibits include The Station, 1939 World's Fair, Park Ave, Hellgate Bridge, and Prince Edward Island. Groups welcome. Season passes available.

Price: $

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Season: YR
Founded in 1901, the library served the Towns of Thurman and Warrensburgh.

Price: Free

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Season: YR
See the history of Lake George area and Father Issac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary, as depicted in the stained glass windows of the church. Father Jogues is believed to be the first European to see Lake George.

Price: Free

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Season: July-Aug
Old schoolhouse from early days of Lake Luzerne. Antique desks, furniture, school bell. Free.

Price: Free

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Season: June - September
Lakeside teaching studio, 1924-1934, of Metropolitan Opera diva Marcella Sembrich. On National Historic Register. Artifacts, photographs and memorabilia of her life and career at the Metropolitan Opera and in Europe. Summer concerts, lectures and film evenings year round.

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Season: July Aug, Sat only
History of school life and industry in historic home in Stony Creek, photos, maps. Free.

Price: Free

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Season: YR
Founded on February 24, 1921 the library has been at its present location since 1960, built on land donated by Pearl and Ed Kreinheder.

Price: Free

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Three shipwreck sites in Lake George managed by NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation.

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Season: July-Sept
History of Town of Chester, Pottersville areas. Photographs, antiques, artifacts. Free.

Price: Free

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