We hope you'll join us for our first in-person Annual Meeting since 2019. After a brief business meeting, local historian John Scherer will present his illustrated talk, "Through the Stereoscope: Time Machine to the 19th Century." Refreshments will be served. Thursday at 6:30pm at 32 Washington Ave.
Due to school programs, the Mabee Farm will open to the public at 2pm on these days, with guided tours at 3pm, only.
This walking tour takes us back to a land you may know but a world that’s unrecognizable. In the 17th century, Schenectady sat at the crossroads of many competing empires, where European colonists met native American nations. Come see how our city’s story began!
The American Revolution is, of course, a pivotal moment in the history of our city and our nation. Come explore a conflict that sundered families and communities alike. What does it mean to be a Patriot?
Can you keep a secret? This tour explores the Stockade through the writings of Harriet Mumford Paige, Schenectady's own version of Lady Whistledown. Living in the early 19th century, she was an ordinary woman with an extraordinary penchant for peddling rumors. Together we'll air out all of her neighbors' dirty laundry!
We love a good upcycle art project at the Mabee Farm! In this workshop we'll turn old wine bottles into new, self watering planters. We'll fill them up with rich, composted soil from the Mabee Farm and start you off with a homegrown herb seedling.
With the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York truly became the “Empire State.” Once a sleepy farming town, Schenectady experienced a dramatic transformation of its own during the canal era.
The Stockade and its secrets come to life on this behind-the-scenes journey through the neighborhood.
It’s the middle of the 19th century and America has been fractured in two. As Union and Confederate forces battle, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. In this tour we’ll examine how Schenectady fit into this struggle. We’ll walk the streets and meet the people who lived through this crisis.
Every city has its fair share of scandal! Scandalous Schenectady recalls some of Schenectady’s more nefarious characters. Bold bootlegging, cruel kidnappings and maybe even a few mysterious murders…this tour has it all!
