Exibits
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Our
intention is not to lecture about history but to have
you experience it, and what makes Your History
Place most engaging are the popular exhibits we
display. Local volunteers, town historians, organizations,
and community members help to bring you a piece of
history on a local perspective. Our 5,000square foot museum exhibit area has
multiple exhibits running concurrently.
Events
are open to the general public and the cost is $2.00.
Members and children are free.
Hours of Operation: Tuesday – Friday, 10am– 4pm, Saturday, 11:00am- 3:00pm
Closed Sunday and Monday
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Utica School of Commerce |
 The Utica School of Commerce has partnered with the Oneida County Historical Society to create a new exhibit covering the history of USC from 1896 to the present day.
Since 1896 the Utica School of Commerce has served Oneida County residents, providing business and administrative training to thousands of students throughout the region. USC graduates have gone on to work in the community and many have become leaders of local business and industry. The USC exhibit features office machines used by students through the years including typewriters, adding machines, and early IBM word processors, forerunners of the modern personal computer. The locations USC has occupied through the years in downtown Utica are also shown, including the Oneida National Bank building (1896-1914), the Mayro building (1915-1978), and the Boston Store Annex (1978 to today).
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Utica Free Academy Alumni Association |
 The Utica Free Academy Alumni Association in conjunction with the Oneida County Historical Society hosts the U.F.A. Exhibit. The exhibit will feature the "original"Utica Academy charter dated March 28, 1814. Additional displays include yearbooks, memorabilia, trophies and items nearly 200 years old. We urge all UFA alumni to attend.
When Utica Free Academy was closed in 1987 there was very little known about the origin of it's predecessor, the Utica Academy. Few if any Uticans have ever seen the original Charter of The Utica Academy and therefore, never knew who the founders were. Today we take great pleasure in introducing 25 citizens of the Village of Utica, who in the midst of the War of 1812, took time to establish a vital part of our educational system that is still functioning almost 200 years later.
The UFA Alumni Association was formed to raise funds to be used as scholarships for Utica City School District students and keep the UFA name alive through memorabilia.
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A Heritage of Service: Oneida County in the Military, 1754 to Today
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 From the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, Oneida County's citizens have served in the armed forces, protecting our nation in times of war and peace. Through wars won and lost, supported widely or bitterly opposed, young men and women from our area have answered the nation's call.
The Society has created A Heritage of Service to honor our region's veterans, utilizing artifacts from its own collections to detail military history from the French and Indian War that raged here in the 1750s up to the war in Iraq. Individual exhibits highlight Oneida County's wartime experience in every major armed conflict including the American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican, Civil, and Spanish-American Wars, both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, and more recent conflicts in the Middle East. This exhibit includes items loaned by county residents and also some provided by the Afro-American Heritage Association. |
Our American Presidents
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 This exhibit is part of the Society's commemoration of the upcoming Presidential elections and is the kickoff for a special event series that highlights our nation's chief executives.
Featured items include documents signed by our first President, George Washington, as well as others signed by Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Teddy Roosevelt. One case houses artifacts from Utica native James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President during the administration of William Howard Taft. Presidential campaign items dating back to 1840 are also on display, many for the first time.
At the end of the exhibit visitors will have the chance to cast their ‘vote' for one of several exhibit ideas that will replace Our American Presidents in 2009.
This exhibit is sponsored in part by Dimbleby, Friedel, Williams and Edmunds Funeral Homes of New Hartford.
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