Butler Historical Preservation Society - Wayne County NY

10/17/2026

10/17/2026

Yep!!! We are almost there!!
Saturday, October 17, 2026 is TOMORROW!!

Our fantastic line-up of Jubilee exhibitors are looking forward to chatting with YOU tomorrow about their area of history and/or heritage interests and expertise. The folks gathered for this day are interested in hearing your stories, too.

Metal detection history detectives, gravestone and cemetery preservationists, bee keeping advocates, apple peeling pros, family history keepers, military history spokespeople, museum directors, history re-enactors, and local historians preserving your town's interest are just a sampling of those to visit with tomorrow!

Experience the past and the present, and build some personal and community inspiration for the future during the Old Wolcott Community Heritage Jubilee tomorrow at North Rose-Wolcott High School from 10 am to 3 pm.

Remember - this historic event is the final Bicentennial Old Wolcott (Butler, Huron, Rose, and Wolcott) event for this commemorative year!! Come celebrate! Bring you family! Bring a friend! Bring a neighbor!

See you tomorrow!!

Butler Historical Preservation Society - Wayne County NY
Historic Huron, NY
Town of Rose Historian
Rose Historical Society - Farnsworth Museum
Town of Huron, NY
Town/Village of Wolcott Historian
Wolcott Historical Society
North Rose-Wolcott Central School District

10/16/2026

Butler Bicentennial Bit #40 takes us to West Butler in October 1913 where we learn that with the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, you need to keep track of your poultry!

10/15/2026

A mix of clouds and sun during the morning will give way to cloudy skies this afternoon. Slight chance of a rain shower. High 67F. Winds light and variable..

10/15/2026

Nothing would make we historians and historical society members of Old Wolcott happier than to see YOU - the Butler, Huron, Rose, and Wolcott community members - at North Rose-Wolcott High School for the Old Wolcott Community Heritage Jubilee this Saturday, October 17, 2026 between 10 am and 3 pm!! We will be on hand, along with the following exhibitors to share lots of local history with you. This group of exhibitors are dedicated history enthusiasts. When you visit with them, you will walk away an enthusiast, too, and might find your self with a new interest or hobby!!

This is our final Old Wolcott Bicentennial event in celebration of our four towns' 200 years since Butler, Rose and Huron were set off from our parent town - Wolcott! It is fitting this closing celebration is at NRW High School, as it was that merger of the two school districts, North Rose and Wolcott, that steered the four town back together in support of all our children.

We thank the following exhibitors and participants for joining us for this event!

Wayne County Genealogical Society
Gone Graving
Roc Diggers
Palace Theatre
Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War
Colonel William Prescott Daughters of the American Revolution
Marvin Tryon
Wolcott American Legion Post 881
Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum
Tom & Karen Sawtelle - 18th Century Fur Traders
Chris Blomgren of Historic Pursuits
Kathy Wafler Madison - Apple Peeler Extrodinaire
Dan Winter Apiaries
Marshall Farms
Sloboda Family Musicians
North Rose-Wolcott Booster Club

Butler Historical Preservation Society - Wayne County NY
Historic Huron, NY
Town of Rose Historian
Rose Historical Society - Farnsworth Museum
Wolcott Historical Society
Town/Village of Wolcott Historian
North Rose-Wolcott Central School District

10/09/2026

BBB #39 doesn't seem historical (it's only 29 years ago...) but it's a snapshot of life around October 9th, 1997, which becomes history down the line. Carol Reed was an important contributor to recording our local history. I thank her family, once again, for sharing her scrapbooks for my scanning project as town historian.

10/05/2026

Butler Historian Lori Schmidt is resigning from the job effective the end of this year. Do you have an interest in carrying on the job of supporting local history and archiving? Check out the job description and how to apply for the job. It is a paying position with the town. If you have any questions, just message Lori here or on her Town of Butler NY Historian FB page.

10/05/2026

Did you ever wonder how to locate your ancestors in cemeteries, libraries, historical societies, newspapers, or on internet ancestry sites?

Want to learn more about your ancestors and how to dig into finding information about them?

The more you learn about your ancestors, the deeper you yearn to discover even more about them and other ancestors!

Visit the Old Wolcott Community Heritage Jubilee and learn some skills and tools to do just that! Heritage Jubilee exhibitors will be able to show you just how to get started and have fun doing it!

Saturday, October 17th - 10 am to 3 pm - North Rose - Wolcott High School!

Butler Historical Preservation Society - Wayne County NY
Historic Huron, NY
Town of Rose Historian
Rose Historical Society - Farnsworth Museum
Town/Village of Wolcott Historian
Wolcott Historical Society
North Rose-Wolcott Central School District

10/02/2026

IN BBB #38, we highlight a clean up day back in 2024 organized by BHPS trustee Nancy Soules. Your Butler Historian Lori Schmidt picked the gravestone of Peter Doty to clean up and here are photos showing the progression of how the D2 cleaner works with the last photo taken this Summer.

If you want to learn more about cleaning do's & don'ts, come out to the BHPS Museum in Butler Center tomorrow, Oct. 3rd at 2 pm to hear Parker Maybe's presentation. Refreshments will also be served.

I didn't find much information on Peter. In the 1850 Census his date of birth was 1811 and he worked as a blacksmith. The 1860 Census lists his occupation as a farmer with a wife and 6 children. The Find a Grave website shows only two children buried in Butler Center and two in Union Hill Cemetery, Cato. The rest of the family (including his wife) was nowhere to be found. More history mystery!

Hope to see everyone tomorrow for an interesting talk by an award winning NR-W HS student!