Historic Huron, NY

05/28/2026

Canal Boat SENECA CHIEF is coming back - on her return voyage to Buffalo! Stopping in Lyons June 18-20 where there are special events planned. Check out post shared from Museum of Wayne County History
If you didn't get a chance to visit SENECA CHIEF during 2023 stops in Wayne County during her voyage from Buffalo to New York City, this return voyage would be a great opportunity.

05/26/2026

What is going on in Huron?!!

A boat, raft, or paddle board made of cardboard. aluminum cans, or plastic bottles?
Well, the aluminum cans idea may be a bit tricky, as you would have to plug all the can openings or cover the entire vessel in plastic wrap . . .

But sure!!!
Why not build a clever, funny, creative, floatable, recycled material boat for the HURON BICENTENNIAL PEOPLE-POWERED BOAT RACE?!

Join the fun on July 11th at Oak Park Marina & Resort on Great Sodus Bay and share your nautical savvy, mate!
See event details in second image.

Don't know how to build your racing recycled materials craft? There are lots of guides on YouTube and elsewhere. For today, let's start with a little inspiration by sharing a few cardboard boat races to get you revved up to design and build a winning first class recycled materials boat. Later this week, some suggestions for design and building.

From Henderson State Univ. in Arkansas - a collegiate cardboard boat race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5qLBLU89r0
And a few others for your enjoyment.
- Marine Heritage Festival Cardboard Boat Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq5BiwbuKXk
- Pal-Mac HS Cardboard Boat Race in HS Pool – Engineering Class – This is funny, but you need to skip through it. There are some good do's and don'ts for your design planning in this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfZhX5KXro

More later this week on design and building.

This event is sponsored by the Town of Huron, NY , Save Our Sodus , and Oak Park Marina & Resort.

05/19/2026

In Commemoration of Huron's Bicentennial -
The 2026 Huron Day will be "Celebrating 200 Years of Huron's Agriculture!"

VENDORS WANTED!!

Saturday, September 12, 2026
10 am to 3 pm
Historic Huron - 6416 North Huron Road

Applications available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AvuG3pKZBKiQaqaizyhtiO4JkiFfMYc9/view?usp=sharing

Town of Huron, NY

05/17/2026

THANK YOU TO ALL -

If you were someone who waved from your porch or at the roadside, came to the Wolcott Village Park, or to one of the stops during yesterday's Old Wolcott Bicentennial Parade - THANK YOU!!! All of us from Butler, Huron, Rose, and Wolcott who trekked out into the rainy evening weather to move the parade along its route were encouraged by your interest, smiles, cheers and waves as we passed by!!!

In addition - thank you to all those who participated in the parade and the Candlelight Service. All the Fire Departments and their road crews who helped with traffic, Village Police, and other peace officers, Town Highway Folks, Town Supervisors, Town & Village Historians, as well as the patient drivers for those Town representatives, and the Colonel William Prescott Daughters of the American Revolution with their float celebrating the Nation's 250th.

Of particular note:
Steve Wickman - who braved the elements at each town stop - to deliver a beautiful prayer for each town's past, present, and future blessings.
Fowler Farms - for the loan of four trailers for the four towns' floats and sound system for the park service.
Heather Luther for keep everything going and for being Dic's behind the scenes helper.
Phil Eygnor & Dic Lasher for constructing and decorating five floats - one for each town and one for the commemoration of our Nation's 250th.
Dic Lasher for his impeccable planning and overseeing of the parade and Candlelight Service. Even when many of us wanted to call it - because of the rain - Dic said, "Ain't nobody gonna rain on my parade!" 🎶

As it was, the weather cleared and we had a nice program in the park.

Thank you, all - for your support of and participation in the Old Wolcott Bicentennial Parade and Candlelight Service!! Happy 200th Birthday!!!

PS We are waiting for some photos of the parade and service to role in from the difficult photo day yesterday. Feel free to share any you may have from yesterday's parade and park service if you wish. We'd love to see the pics from all around Old Wolcott! Thanks so much!

Oh yeah - image - ChatGPT!

Butler Historical Preservation Society - Wayne County NY
Rose Historical Society - Farnsworth Museum
Town of Rose Historian
Wolcott Historical Society
Town/Village of Wolcott Historian
Town of Huron, NY

05/16/2026

Today is a BIG DAY in OLD WOLCOTT!!!

Don't miss the Old Wolcott Parade - beginning at 5:30 pm this evening. Followed by the Candlelight Service in the Wolcott Village Park at 7:30 pm. Followed by the continuation of the parade through the Village of Wolcott at the conclusion of the Candlelight Service (apt 8:30 pm).
(The Village route will go from the park to East Main, up Mill to Alport, back Mill to East Main then Jefferson over to Butler and up to Draper back to West Main to the Wolcott Fire Hall. Hint, if you start on West Main and then head to East Main - you can see the parade twice.)

Butler Historical Preservation Society - Wayne County NY
Rose Historical Society - Farnsworth Museum
Town of Rose Historian
Wolcott Historical Society

05/11/2026

Huron in the News - 151 years ago.

As was last mentioned on this page on May 5th, Semi-Quaver in Huron was a bit dismayed over the lack of representation of Huron in the Lake Shore News (LSN) columns. You may remember the story of grog-shops vs churches?

Well, though still without a dedicated column for Huron in the LSN, someone did a bit of reporting about events in Huron. The attached clipping from the May 6, 1875 LSN is a hair-raising horse story.

Please note, as there is no photo of this event in the archives, I have taken some liberty with AI and enlisted upon AI to create an accompanying image through ChatGPT, to add some visual for the story.

To those of you who think this attempt to add an AI visual to a story for these posts, I invite you to share your drawing skills to enhance the stories where no image exists. Mind you, when there are images in the files for a story like this, I will be certain to use it. Respectfully to all - Huron Historian - Rosa Fox

05/08/2026

Old Wolcott Bicentennial Community Celebration
Four Town Parade and Candlelight Service
Saturday May 16, 2026

An Old Wolcott community-wide commemoration for the 200th anniversary of Bulter, Huron, Rose, and Wolcott will be held Saturday, May 16, 2026. To honor the past, present, and future of the Old Wolcott towns, a four town parade will pass through each town, making short stops at chosen sites along the way, where the town supervisor will greet attendees at the designated sited in their town’s (see chart). The parade begins in Wolcott at 5:30 pm and the Wolcott Fire Hall. The parade will course through Butler, Rose, and Huron, returning to Wolcott, where a candlelight service will be held at 7:30 pm in the Wolcott Village Park. After the candlelight service, the parade will do a run through the village and return to the Wolcott Fire Hall.

Dic Lasher and Phil Eygnor (pictured) have been busy float builders for the past couple of months, getting each town float ready, as well as a float to honor the nation’s 250th (Semiquincentennial) commemoration. Another group creating a float for this parade is the Colonel William Prescott Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), who, with an assist from Mural Mania, have created a very special mural float for the Nation’s 250th celebration honoring patriots of the American Revolution. [See parade route chart.]

Many thanks are extended to Fowler Farms for loaning four trailers used for construction of the town floats. Thanks also goes out to the Butler, Huron, Rose, and Wolcott highway departments for providing drivers and trucks to haul the community floats.

After passing through each town, the parade will return to Wolcott and arrive at the Wolcott Village Park at around 7:30 pm for the Old Wolcott Bicentennial Candlelight Service. The program will include music by North Rose-Wolcott High School Choir and Band students, a pastoral message, a historical address, and the lighting of candles. Candles will be available, however cell phones may be used for lighting if you choose.

The Old Wolcott Bicentennial Committee sincerely appreciates the kindness and flexibility of Jeremiah Schalberg. One of the new owners of the Wolcott Palace Theatre, Jeremiah has shown tremendous support for this bicentennial event by moving the theatre’s opening showtime so the candlelight service and parade may happen as planned. We encourage people to attend the theatre’s opening night following the Candlelight Service. In fact, you will be able to walk to the theatre, accompanied by the parade, which will go that route, as it goes through the Village of Wolcott, before returning to the Fire Hall on West Port Bay Road. Doors to the Palace Theatre will open at 8:30 pm and the movie will begin at 9 pm. The movie, I understand, is a surprise! Please show your support and community bicentennial spirit to the new owners of the Palace Theatre by attending the opening!

We look forward to seeing you all along the parade route and/or at the Wolcott Village Park to join in the formal celebration of our distinctive four town history and commemoration! And please plan to attend the opening of the Palace Theatre following!

Thanks to all for your support and interest in this historic commemoration!

Anyone interested in participating in the parade with a float, please contact Dic Lasher 315-398-3353.

Butler Historical Preservation Society - Wayne County NY
Rose Historical Society - Farnsworth Museum
Wolcott Historical Society
Town of Huron, NY
Save Our Sodus

05/05/2026

Okay - are you wondering what this grog-shop is doing next to a church and what it has to do with Huron?
Read On!

Some Things Just Don't Change - Even After 151 Years! .

The following gem is from the April 15, 1875 Lake Shore News
Note this is not the entire article - just the humorous jewels from the beginning. I have typed it out for you, as some of the print is burred and not easy to read.

HURON CORRESPONDENCE
Editor News: - After perusing the last number of your valuable paper, we observe that Huron has no representation. Now Huron should no longer remain unnoticed, for she "still lives" - here she spreads her broad domain, and her she will remain for ever.

But Huron was not always a "Sovereign State." No, we mean that Huron was not in the "beginning" an independent town, but with the addition of Rose and Butler constituted the ancient respectable town of Wolcott. Huron has too long been the feeder of Wolcott; has sustained her churches, increased her business, and supported her grog shops too long to be passed over in silence as a "no account child." It has been said in Clyde, by competent authority, that more grain was sold there from Huron than from any other town. This was previous to the building of the Lake Shore R. R.

This town has long been noted for the amount and excellence of its fruit. The occupation of the people for the most part is a mixed husbandry, comprising agriculture, horticulture, sheep and stock raising, and dairying.
Although there is no village in town, still there are, as Prof. _____ would say, four points of crystallization - Huron, North Huron, Port Glasgow, and Lummisville. Huron has a Church, but no grog-shop - that is bad. Port Glasgow has two grog -shops, but no Church - that is worse. Lummisville has neither Church nor grog-shop, and that is worse than both.

[Your Historic Huron writer, leaves the article here, as the correspondence continues for another several paragraphs about Huron road bonds, politics, work ethics, farming, and business promotion. Why the picture you wonder? - - - Well, disappointingly, North Huron was not mentioned in the correspondence, which had at least two churches. Port Glasgow eventually did have several grog-shops AND a church!!! So in the eyes of the writer - was this the better of the hamlets in Huron?]

Signed at the end by "Semiquaver" April 12, 1875.

A Semiquaver is - in musical terms - a sixteenth note. This historian finds no other meaning for the term.

Future Huron Correspondences are signed "Semi-Occasional." More on this column in future posts.

To read the entire article (column 3, bottom of the page) visit: https://bit.ly/3OVoBIV

Image credit to ChatGPT!!!

05/01/2026

Happy May Day Everyone!!

Tomorrow is the opening day for the Huron History Center 2026 Bicentennial Season.
The History Center is open throughout the season - May through October - the first Saturday of each month from 1 to 4 pm.

The History Center and Dayton Mills Schoolhouse are open the sam weekends as the Huron Presbyterian Church Rummage Sales:
Friday & Saturday - June 5 & 6 from 9 am - 3 pm
Friday & Saturday - August 7 & 8 from 9 am - 3 pm

Huron Day - Saturday, September 12 - The History Center and Grange, including the second floor exhibit space, will be open from 10 am - 3 pm. The Huron Presbyterian Church will also be open for historical programs (TBD) and lunch. Vendors will be located on the church lawn.

Lots of opportunities to come learn more about Huron History! See you there!

04/30/2026

Vendors Wanted!!!
2026 Bicentennial Huron Day
Saturday, September 12, 2026
10 am to 3 pm
Hstoric Huron - 6416 North Huron Road

Applications available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AvuG3pKZBKiQaqaizyhtiO4JkiFfMYc9/view?usp=share_link

Town of Huron, NY

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