PUBLIC HISTORIANS
Hamilton County: Ernest D. Virgil, 518-548-5526, historian@hamiltoncountyny.gov
Town of Arietta: Victoria Fish, 518-955-1612, victoriafish@gmail.com
Town of Benson: Lori Mead, 518-863-1154; benson.clerk@yahoo.com
Town of Hope: Hugh Peters, Jr., 518-924-2032
Town of Indian Lake: Wayne Blanchard, 518-648-5933; wgb@frontiernet.net
Town of Inlet: Charles Herr, 433-388-3681, summer 315-357-2186, herrstorybk@gmail.com
Town of Lake Pleasant: Aaron Weaver, 518-548-8351; lphistory@yahoo.com
Village of Speculator: Bev Hoffman, 518-548-5325
Town of Long Lake: Hallie Bond, 518-624-6398
Town of Long Lake Archives: Brian Castler, llarchives@frontiernet.net
Hamlet of Raquette Lake: Joanna L. Nelson, 315-354-5122
Town of Morehouse: Melanie Luck,tnmhluse@ntcnet.com
Town of Wells: Pat Unterborn, 585-261-1872, punterborn@gmail.com
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AND MUSEUMS
Adirondack Museum
Great Camp Sagamore
Indian Lake Museum
Inlet Historical Society
Historical Society of Lake Pleasant and Speculator
Long Lake Historical Society
Morehouse Methodist Church Museum
Piseco Lake Historical Society, Museum and Riley Tavern
Wells Historical Society
LIBRARIES
Indian Lake Public Library
Town of Inlet Public Library
Lake Pleasant Library
Long Lake Public Library
Raquette Lake Free Library
Virginia Hosley Free Library (Wells)
INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS
Fifty Acres of Beach and Wood, by Tom Thatcher (on Indian Point, Raquette Lake)
Indian Lake, NY: A History, by Bill Zullo (former Hamilton County Historian)
Following WW Durant, by Sheila Myers (on the Durant family of Raquette Lake)
GENEALOGY
Hamilton County NY Gen Web
FURTHER RESOURCES
SUNY Cortland History of Antlers (Raquette Lake)
Library of Congress Raquette Lake Photo Collection
Church of the Good Shepherd (Raquette Lake)
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