Help Celebrate our New Addition!

Our new museum building makes me and my hardworking little crew happy.  We are almost done, only things left are getting the word out and a few final touchups, and so a dream of getting our 501 3c and apspling for grants has paid off. So I ask you to tell everyone you know who is interested in history about our opening.
 So....
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 and members of Old Town Folks Inc.  

The date is Saturday and Sunday September 28 and 29, which is traditional Fall Festival History Weekend held each fall.  The hours will be from 11 until 4 both days with sales of gifts and bake goods to benefit the museum. 

The new building features the history of Eaton’s many businesses including Moses Cronk, Wood, Taber & More Steam Engine Works,  Sheffield Diary that became Sealtest, with a special feature on the first Holstein - Friesian breeding herd of  cattle to come to The United States, and much more.  

The building will have a built in tour via a video & talk given by former Madison County Historian Back Street Mary Messere.  Messere also will be there  selling copies of her many books, and of course be on hand to answer your history questions.

Messere who acts as the museums curator, notes that this is a dream come true for the small group. Messere won an award from  Museumwise for her putting on of 8 Fall Festival History Weekends that spanned 3  counties and banded small and large museums together to be open for free on the same day in the fall. This allowed people to learn history and visit those little museums that seem to be never open.  

For more information visit the museums facebook page at Old Town of Eaton Museum or on the web at www.historystarproduction.com.

Eaton History Day better known as Eaton Day, Memorial Day and Me!

It is May and as I do every year I work on the upcoming Memorial Day Monday Eaton Day event.  As usual I try to put into words the importance of a "Community Day"... yet trying to word it to entice even those not from the immediate community to come out and join their neighbors.  I have put on 20 of these, give or take a year.  So with that in mind I invite you to circle Memorial Day Monday, May 30th, on the calendar and come to our town and see what "rural small town America" still has going for it.   So with that thought in mind....... 

Tommy Hoe playing at last years event!

On Memorial Day Monday, May 30th, the Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum will be hosting the 21^st Annual “Eaton Day”. 

The day, which is held in the Hamlet of Eaton on Route 26, is an opportunity for the Town of Eaton residents past and present to enjoy history, memories and good homemade bake goods with special activities thrown it!

The theme of this years event is "Preserving the Past for the Future" a statement that is a perfect description of the importance of the Old Town of Eaton Museum that is proud of the many artifacts and stories that are preserved within its 200 plus year walls.

The Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum hold “Eaton Day” in an effort to raise money for the upkeep the museum building and to put on and fund the event each year.  The mission of the group being to responsibly sustain the museum building and contents as a significant evolving repository of local history and artifacts through fund raising, tours, and celebrations of which “Eaton Day” each year is an important part.

The group feels it is important for the citizens of the Town of Eaton to recognize that the artifacts housed within the walls of the Eaton Museum, those heirlooms that may come to us in the future and those people, both living and dead who form the tapestry of our community are, in fact, our inheritance.  Also, by engaging the community, on Eaton Day, they hope to protect the Town’s shared heritage and leave a legacy for the future and the future of the Old Town of Eaton Museum.  

The “Day”, that  features, a huge bake and pie sale, tours of the museum, food, crafts & rummage tables, basket raffles, as well as entertainment and history, with its theme of Preserving the Past for the Future, is a perfect explanation of the museum’s goals.  Eaton Day starts at 9am and goes to 4pm, with special presentations starting after the parade, which this year is in Morrisville.

Come join the Eaton Community for an old fashioned day of fun and community pride, Eaton Day!

Some clips from the past!