Melville Landon - Known to the World as Eli PerkinsEaton and its many stories and pieces of history blend well with the area writers,,,some of whom. not only lived here but returned frequently to visit in the summer or even in the winter. One Morse family relative sent a letter to her family that spoke …
The Great Chenango Canal
On October 26, 1825, at the “Wedding of the Waters”, America’s first civil engineers became legend. The NYS Historical Marker on the site of the house of James Geddes in the Town of Camillus, on busy Genesee Street near the Fairmount Shopping Center, cannot possibly tell the whole story of New York’s Canal …
Eaton’s Early Roots!
Since this Memorial Day we will be Celebrating our Revolutionary War Soldiers including Myles Standish Jr. who is buried in our Cemetery and fought in the Revolutionary War.....some history! Many of our original settlers in Eaton date back to the Mayflower and the settlers of Natick especially the Morse, Leland, Kent and Stowe families. Eaton followed much …
Opening of our Mini Ag Museum
The Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum invite the public to join them for the Grand Opening of their new Agricultural Mini - Museum, located on the grounds of the Old Town of Eaton Museum at 2776 River Road in Eaton. The new building was made possible by a grant from the Mid-York Foundation …
D- Day Anniversary and the Anniversary of the Eaton Church Today is a special day as it is the 75 Anniversary of D-Day and in Eaton, it is the day the current Eaton Church was dedicated on June 6th in 1833. It’s the historic sight I see while having coffee in the morning.At that time it …
The Chenango Canal & its Engineers
On October 26, 1825, at the “Wedding of the Waters”, America’s first civil engineers became legend. The NYS Historical Marker on the site of the house of James Geddes in the Town of Camillus, on busy Genesee Street near the Fairmount Shopping Center, cannot possibly tell the whole story of New York’s Canal system. One of the …
The Chenango Canal and Leland Pond
The history of the Chenango Canal and the Ponds and Reserviors are and important part of our history! Image of Native American near today's Leland Pond. This week I finally have been able to start back on a project I started before becoming injured and ill, a film on the Chenango Canal that we have …
A New Year for the Old Town of Eaton Museum
Words cannot describe the 20 plus years we (I) have spent down here trying to keep the history of Eaton alive. Time mixed with memories that are both good and bad. The original group of Neighbors for Historic Eaton formed out of the group that put on the Bicentennial for the Hamlet of Eaton… a …
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Events Memorial Day Monday
The Old Town of Eaton will be cerebrating its 229th year on Memorial Day Monday. The weekend follows a traditional cerebration held in the town each year, a town whose history is steeped in the time after the Revolutionary War. Settled by many veterans of the war and part of the original; settlement of Madison …
NEW YEAR ... NEW BEGINNINGS This year has slipped away and was still in the grips of Covid-19 and all of its variants. This leaving small groups like ours up in the air for events and fundraising. The museum continued opening every other Sunday or by appointment for the most part, not closing this year …
Missionaries of Eaton
While working on a new book named “The History You Never Knew” the past few days, I came across much information that has actually never come to light in regular history books. Many of the young folk in Eaton actually tried to become missionaries to exotic lands many were successful. It seems the lure of Burma and …
Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum 