All program meetings are free of charge and open to the public. Meetings are held at the Newstead Town Hall, 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY unless noted otherwise. Download a 2023 Program here

 

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ANNUAL INDEPENDENCE DAY FESTIVITIES

Both the Rich-Twinn Octagon House & Knight Sutton Museum will be open. Our annual Amish quilt raffle and Baked Pie sale will take place on the lawn of one of […]

HY-WYNNE FARMS AND THE SUTTON FAMILY

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

From its early days as the home of Louis H. Sutton, owner at the age of 20 of Wheat's Ice Cream Company, to its current incarnation as a horse breeding, […]

GETTING DRESSED IN THE 1820S

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

Stays and petticoats, chemisettes and spencer jackets—discover what it took for a lady to be fashionable in the year of Newstead’s beginning! Living historian and dressmaker, Anneliese Meck will describe […]

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND PART II

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

Don Shonn will continue a discussion of local land titles that will highlight the battle of the Tonawanda Senecas to avoid removal to the west and to preserve their ancestral […]

Knight-Sutton Museum reopens for the season

KNIGHT-SUTTON MUSEUM 123 Main Street, Akron, NY, United States

Our Newest Exhibit “Fashions from the Collection” features a nostalgic nod to the past as living historian and dressmake Anneliese Meck opens the season with a small presentation on fashion […]

WHITING ROLL-UP DOOR

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

Learn about the historic journey of the Whiting Door Manufacturing Company. From the humble beginnings  of a father and two sons staring a local business—with grit and determinaion—that later burned […]

HISTORY OF THE RAILROADS THAT SERVED AKRON AND NEWSTEAD

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

The Akron/Newstead area has an extensive history staring in 1834 with the Medina and Darien horse-drawn railway. Followed by the NY Central “Peanut” branch in 1853, and finally the NY […]

KREHER FARMS – CELEBRATING 100 YEARS

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

Explore the history of a third and fourth generation farm which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Find out the background of this local farm that now has global […]

ANNUAL INDEPENDENCE DAY FESTIVITIES

KNIGHT-SUTTON MUSEUM 123 Main Street, Akron, NY, United States

Both the Rich-Twinn Octagon House & Knight Sutton Museum will be open. Our popular Amish quilt raffle and Baked Pie sale will be held at the Knight-Sutton Museum. The drawing […]

THE ERIE CANAL

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

This program will take the audience from the first ideas  of a canal to the building and the problems faced. The role of DeWitt Clinton will be stressed and how […]

GROVER AND FRANCES FOLSOM CLEVELAND: THEIR BUFFALO LEGACIES

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

The stories, myths, and controversies surrounding our two-term president and his Buffalo-born wife, Frances Folsom Cleveland, abound to this day in historical circles. Bren T. Price, Sr.,  Buffalo Presidential Center […]