Updated book on historic markers in Orleans County will be released on Wednesday

The cover of the book highlights the efforts of Orleans County Historian Catherine Cooper in compiling an updated list of historic markers in the county.

Press Release, Orleans County Historical Association

ALBION – The community is invited to join us on Wednesday, October 29, at 7 p.m. in the Gaines Basin Cobblestone Schoolhouse at 3286 Gaines Basin Rd.

This special event will spotlight the launch of our updated NYS Historic Markers of Orleans County, NY book. Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian, will lead the presentation.

Living our busy, destination focused lives, we speed by those distinctive yellow and blue roadside historic markers too quickly to read the content. In some instances, we could hazard a guess as to the reason for a particular sign based on its location, the Cobblestone Schoolhouse on Gaines Basin Road, for example.

A newly revised guidebook “Historic Markers of Orleans County New York” provides the text and location of the signs. Compiled by Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian, in honor of the Bicentennial of Orleans County, 2025, it is an updated version of the book “Historic Markers Erected During the 20th Century in Orleans County New York” produced in 2001 by Bill Lattin, Orleans County Historian and Neil Johnson, Village of Albion Historian.

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event – cost $15.

In addition to the book, local artist Carol Culhane will have Bicentennial posters on display (Cost $10.)  All proceeds will go to the Orleans County Historical Association.

If you can’t attend the presentation but would like to purchase a book, they will be sold at:

• Hoag Library in Albion on Thursday, October 30, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Lee-Whedon Library in Medina during regular business hours
• Murray-Holley Historical Museum, when open