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Hanford Mills Museum – A Piece of History in East Meredith, NY
Discover the beauty of the site and power of the mill on tours offered four times a day, Wednesday through Sunday. See sawdust fly and feel the site come to life during demonstrations of the mill’s water wheel and historic machinery and explore the rest of the historic site. Take part in hands-on opportunities connecting water, sustainability, and the environment and witness the effects of technological innovation, creative decision-making, and resource management.
Experience a story of innovation, ingenuity and entrepreneurship at a historic working mill site. Sheltered in a valley in the northwestern Catskills of New York, Hanford Mills Museum offers insights into the past and lessons about the relationships between people, the things they make, and the places they live.
Collections
Hanford Mills Museum has over 50,000 objects housed in historic buildings across the historic mill site. Objects in the collection run the gamut from fully operational woodworking and grist milling machinery to domestic artifacts, wooden tool handles, plows and harrows, and gasoline engines.
An extensive photograph collection, library, and archive are also housed at the Museum. The archives contain records that document over a century of Hanford and Pizza family business transactions and a photograph collection that traces in detail the development of the Mill and its community from the 1870s to the present.
Tours
Hanford Mills Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from mid-May through mid-October. Tours are offered four times daily at 10:30, 12:00, 1:30, and 3:00. Tour size is limited. Hanford Mills Museum provides special tours for bus tour groups, educational programs or other organizations or clubs. To be eligible for the group admission rate of $4.50 per person, you must have ten or more members in your party, and you must contact the Museum in advance of arrival.
Find out more and reserve your tour spot here.
Admission:
Adults/teens: $9
Seniors (over 65), NTHP members: $7
Veteran, active duty, & first responders: $4.50
Children under 12, museum members, & EBT cardholders: FREE
Hanford Mills Museum participates in Museums for All, a collaboration of the Association of Children’s Museums and the Institute of Museum & Library Services. Present your Electronics Benefit Transfer Card (EBT), and you and up to 3 other adults or teens will be admitted to the Museum with no charge.
