Events

Test yourself and learn something new with questions and answers about the County’s unique history with a prize for the most right answers.

CCHA has many items in our shop that would make great holiday gifts - books, ornaments, prints, the Bluff Point Lighthouse pendants, jugs, a crock, a skeet gun, and more.

Hear the history of the Mooers Train Station followed by a visit to the station itself with historian Dick Soper and Mooers train station owner Chris Trombley. Sponsored by the Town of Mooers Historian Vicki Brassard and the Clinton County Historical Association. Free and open to the public, for more information call (518) 561-0340.

“Oppression of the Oppressed: Freedom and Unfreedom Among the Haudenosaunee.” Presented by Robin Caudell, award-winning journalist and videographer and staff writer at the Press Republican.

Using photos from the CCHA collection, see "then and now" photo comparisons of landmarks in downtown Plattsburgh. Come and see what you might recognize and share stories of these special spots.

Introducing the newly published book The Champlain Canal: 200 Years of Change with Matt Harrison.  This book features chapters by historians, archeologists, and biologists on the past and present evolutions of the Champlain Canal which celebrated its bicentennial in 2023. Harrison’s talk will focus on early tourism on the waters of the canal and on Lake Champlain, in particular the accounts of two women travelers who recorded their vacations along the canal in the 1890s -- Florence Snedeker and Augusta Brown.

Holiday Open House with special sales on books and gifts and the opportunity to win the 2025 CCHA Lottery ticket package.