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Howland Stone Store Museum
"1837 - A National Historic
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Preserving the Howland Family Collections
Includes permanent and rotating
exhibits
Howland Stone Store Museum
2956 State Route 34B, Hamlet of Sherwood, NY
(View
Map)
Hours: June through September
THURSDAY and SATURDAY
from 1-4 pm. |
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The Howland Stone Store
Museum |
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The store was built in 1837 by Slocum Howland and is important as a graceful
and virtually unaltered example of a simple Greek revival cobblestone building.
Slocum, who arrived in this area in 1798 with his parents, was a devoted
Quaker, wool buyer and entrepreneur, anti-slavery advocate, local banker,
large landowner, prohibitionist, and local leader. His daughter, Miss Emily,
was avidly involved in women's rights, temperance, education, world peace,
abolition, Political Equality clubs, and rights for Negroes. Members of the
Howland family maintained the store for a hundred years.
The building served as a store from 1837-1881. When "the block" next door
was built, the cobblestone store was relegated to storage use. In 1942, it
was renovated to accommodate a library and museum of the items that had been
collected by Miss Emily and Isabel Howland, her niece, during their travels.
For twenty-three years, Mrs. Alice Koon oversaw the library and museum; upon
her death the building and its contents were left to the Cayuga Museum in
Auburn, NY. In 1987, the Cayuga Museum wished to divest itself of the Cobblestone
Store, at which time the Friends of the Howland Stone Store was formed and
accepted ownership. The group charged itself to maintain the store as a vital
part of the community -a tangible reminder of history and the many causes
supported by the Howland family.
In April 1996, the Howland Stone Store Museum was granted an Absolute Charter
by the New York State Board of Regents.
Sherwood, New York is now listed on
The National Register of Historic Places |
To view the 'Significance Statement' for the
Sherwood NY Equal Rights Historic
District, click HERE
(PDF File)
The 'Significance Statement'
was compiled by:
Dr. Judith Wellman, Director
Historical New York Research Associates -
Professor Emerita, SUNY Oswego |
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What's New
At The Museum?
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Received a MuseumWise grant for consultant assistance with care of the
Museum collection |
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Received Network to Freedom kiosk telling HSSM Underground RR story |
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Applied for National Trust Historic Preservation Grant to determine possible
future options for Isabel Howland House |
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Group Tours |
| If your club or group would like a special tour of the Howland Stone
Store Museum (outside of regular hours), we would be happy to accommodate
you. Please contact us via the postal address or phone number listed
on the front of our
brochure. |
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2011 Exhibit
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150th Anniversary of the Civil War and the UGRR
Connection
Discover the stories of local sites involved in the Underground Railroad,
and learn about area residents who served in the Civil War. View our authentic
UGRR ticket, as well as the new kiosk telling Sherwood's UGRR story. |
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SUNDAY
SOCIALS
Programs for 2011
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| All programs and socials will take place at
the museum and have been scheduled for 7:00 pm, except for our fundraiser
in August and Miss Emily's birthday party. Admission to the Howland
Stone Store Museum and its programs is free unless noted, although donations
are gratefully accepted. |
May 15, 2011 7:00 p.m.
"A Long Way in Coming: the Suffrage Campaign in Upstate NY, 1898-1917"
Dr. Karen Pastorello, Professor of History at Tompkins Cortland Community
College, has researched the less famous women and men involved in promoting
the rights of women to vote. She will lend insight into the daily
activities of Upstate suffrage workers and their vital role in the passage
of the 19th amendment. The brief annual meeting of HSSM
will be conducted prior to the program. |
June 12, 2011 7:00 p.m.
"Historic Places of Aurora"
Students from the Spring, 2011, Local History Class at Southern Cayuga
High School (Mrs. Barbara Casper, teacher) will present their research
highlighting the historical significance the buildings and properties in
the Village of Aurora. Then and now visuals will be shown along with
stories of Aurora's past and present; some of these materials will augment
the new village website. |
July 24, 2011 7:00
p.m.
"Evolution of Farm Machinery and What's Next in Farm Equipment?"
Norm Riley, long-time Board President and frequent guide at the
Cayuga County
Ag Museum in Auburn, will move from the use of the sickle and scythe
to plows and tractors, combines and harvesters, showing how each development
improved efficiency. To illustrate his talk, Norm will bring some of
the machinery models he has built. |
August 14, 2011 1 - 4:00 p.m.
Local Barn Tour No. 2 -
Fundraiser
Buy a ticket in at the Museum in Sherwood (starting at 12:30) and trace the
history of barn construction as form followed function in this iconic form
of vernacular architecture. Visit different barns from those on our 2010
tour to see how building styles changed as farming methods adapted to new
trends and technologies in agriculture. Meet the proud owners and gain a
new appreciation for the heart of farming's economic impact on the local
landscape.
$8 per person |
September 18, 2011 7:00
p.m.
"Wish You Were Here" Ellen Wikstrom will share images from Miss Isabel's
postcard collection.
Take an armchair traveler's tour of the world as Miss Isabel and Miss Emily
saw it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Learning about where they
traveled will help shed light on the "Collection of Curiosities" in the upstairs
cabinets. |
October 16, 2011 7:00 p.m.
"The Manly Privilege: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and
Woman Suffrage in New York State, 1867"
The program presenter is Dr. Laura Free, history professor
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In 1867, New York held a convention
to revise its constitution for the first time since women began asking for
the franchise. At the convention, suffrage activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony demanded that New York grant women political rights
on the same terms as men. However, their strategy to challenge the connection
between men and voting rights foundered when they encountered the gender-bias
of the delegates who declared that voting was "a manly privilege" of which
women could not partake without significant disruption of traditional family
and political life. |
November 20, 2011 4:00
pm
"Miss Emily's Birthday"
Join us for birthday cake to honor the 184th anniversary of Miss Emily's
birth. Brad Mitchell, HSSM curator, will share pictures
and highlights of some of the fifty schools supported by Miss Emily. |
| Though donations are always gratefully accepted,
entrance to the Stone Store Museum and its programs are free unless otherwise
indicated. |
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