Minisink Valley Historical Society (MVHS)

Minisink Valley Historical Society (MVHS) Fort Decker Museum (127 West Main St)open the last Saturday of the month from June to Oct 1-4pm. Our

Our Library Archives - Located in the Port Jervis Free Library
138 Pike Street
Port Jervis, New York 12771
Open every Thursday from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Other Times by Appointment

Fort Decker Museum
127 West Main Street
PO Box 659
Port Jervis, New York 12771
Hours
The Last Saturday Of The Month From May - October
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Officers
Robert Schultz, President
Nancy Conod, Executive Director, Treasurer/Corresponding Secretary
Alicia Batko, Secretary

11/18/2024

It's a Genealogy week! We won't be meeting in December, so don't miss this meeting!

04/09/2024
03/24/2024

1918 Orange County Deeds 1918 Liber 583 page 246. Frank B. Wright adopted by Jerry Robinson & wife.

03/24/2024

1918 Orange County NY Deeds 1918 Liber 584 page 528. Adoption Geraldine Wright by Frank J. Gibbons & wife. According to a posting on Find-a-Grave Frank J. & Blanch Skinner Gibbons are buried in St Mary's Cemetery Port Jervis. Someone posted that their daughter Geraldine was adopted.

11/13/2023

This Wednesday is Genealogy! Come by to talk family history and ancestry sleuthing

10/12/2023

We have again found an adoption record filed in with the Orange County, NY Deed. Ethel Boyst the daughter of Albert & Georgianne Boyst was adopted on Jule 8, 1898 by Charles & Sadie Adams. Ethel's mother Georgianne died on May 24, 1896 in Port Jervis, NY.

10/06/2023
Bring a flashlight.
09/27/2023

Bring a flashlight.

Tomorrow is the Cemetery Walk with Mike Worden! Meet up at Laurel Grove Cemetery at 6:30pm for a seasonal and informative tour.

09/12/2023

Starting your journey exploring your family tree? Further into your research but hit a stumbling block? Or do you just enjoy genealogy and love to chat about what you've found? Come to our Genealogy Workshop!

Registration suggested, please call us, extension 4, to make sure you sign up!

08/19/2023

Michael J. Worden author of Lynched By A Mob (The 1892 Lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York) will be at Fort Decker Saturday August 26, 2023 from 12:00
AM – 4:00PM.

08/16/2023

The Minisink Valley Historical Society (MVHS) Archives will not be open on Thursday Aug 17. We're sorry for any inconvenience.

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Fort Decker Museum, 127 West Main Street
Port Jervis, NY
12771

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+18458562375

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