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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For All My Friends & My Favorite Christmas Poem Once again on the week behore Christmas I find myself lost amid old memories, problems of the present… and the dificulties of living in this (at the very moment) place in history where in seconds news is flashed, reflashed, disected and rehashed within the blink of …
The Fall is coming on us quickly, and while getting ready stacking wood and thinking of our next museum event, " Fall Festival History Weekend" followed by our November Pie Sale...I dug this up and thought you might enjoy reading it again! Many of our original settlers in Eaton date back to the Mayflower and …
The Summer Lecture Series will come to an end this month ... thank you to all who have attended. I promised to try and do a lecture on Emily Chubbuck, as well as Eaton's famous missionaries with its links to Colgate University that included Nathaniel Kendrick, its incorporators, Jonathan Wade, and the many others. so …
There is so much history in the area called the Eatonbrook, I found this piece in an old newspaper and thought everyone would enjoy it. The Eatonbrook This mill is one of the old landmarks which our citizens will regret to see pass away. Some 35 years ago, an old saw mill stood upon the …
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Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum 