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You can quickly and easily become a member of the Schoharie County Historical Society by using the Membership Form below and paying with your credit card.  All levels of Membership include a subscription to the Historical Review.  The Schoharie County Historical Review is a bi-annual publication, which is free to members of the society or $5 for non-members.  Each issue contains articles concerning Schoharie County history, tradition, culture, genealogy, news from the Fort, event schedules, and usually a book review.  Previous copies are available at the Fort and searchable on the HathiTrust Digital Library.  To share your research, memories, diaries, letters, and photographs, contact the editor, Elaine Cooper, at editor@theoldstonefort.org.  If you join at the Sustaining level, you also get free admission and member discounts at over 680 other museums in the North American Reciprocal Museum Partnership.  For more information about the NARM program, CLICK HERE.

Or, if you prefer, you may  CLICK HERE  to download our printable membership form and send it, along with your check, to Old Stone Fort Museum P.O. Box 171, Schoharie, NY 12157

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    Benefits include one household subscription to the Historical Review (two issues a year), free museum & library admission for member & spouse, and 10% museum store & copying discounts.
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What happens when you become a member?  Here are some of the updates and events that are made possible through your memberships and donations!

  • Grounds/Site-Wide

    • Removed dilapidated fence
    • Added riparian buffer w/ soil and water

    • Land improvements to drainage ditch

    • Made entire site Wi-Fi accessible

    • Repaired and replaced lighting

    • Built beehive oven

    • Rebuilt and repainted picnic tables

  • Fort/Annex

    • Moved entire library after flooding

    • Tore out carpeting and shelving in library

    • Cleaned out Fort tower

    • Front doors are being restored

  • Badgley

    • Replaced Badgley roof

    • Painted Badgley

    • New windows in Badgley

  • Warner House/Carriage House

    • Repaired structural integrity of Warner House

    • Removed Warner House chimney and fixed roof

    • Cleaned out second floor of Warner House

    • Replaced Carriage House roof

  • Law Office

    • Painted Law Office

    • Replaced Law Office roof

  • Hartmann’s Dorf

    • Built a fireplace in Hartmann’s Dorf

  • Dutch Barn

    • Work on Dutch Barn and further planning/fundraising for more

    • Built garden by Dutch Barn

  • Collections
    • Picked up and/or returned several large collections pieces
    • Upgraded Midtel exhibit
    • Built a traveling exhibit about 2011 flood
    • Purchased rolling archival storage to get library back on site
  • With County 
    • New point sign
    • Fort window restoration
    • Painted library annex roof
    • Added library annex gutters
    • Removed trees threatening library annex
  • Upcoming

    • Library annex foundation

    • Dutch Barn foundation, floor, roof, door

    • Upgraded security system
  • New building

    • Many architect, builder, Board, Planning Board, surveyer, etc. Meetings

    • 3 parcels surveyed for Planning Board for new building project

  • Events

    • Cat Stock
    • Stone Fort Day(s)

    • 100th Anniversary of Schoharie Street Movies

    • We Were There 9/11 event

    • Several scouting events (Camporee included)

    • Established scavenger hunt to earn BSA patch

  • Volunteers

    • Zimmer Collection digitization

    • Genealogy

    • Mark Sullivan Collection organization

  • Grants

    • Archival assessment

    • Jenkins painting restoration

    • Preservation Materials

  • Host meetings for SAR, SUV