This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. c. 1835 — — Map (db m254541) HM
Culture Abounds
"If New York City had as many museums per capita [as Cooperstown], it would have 15,564 instead of a mere fifty, which just proves how much more cultured is life up in the country" - Louis C. Jones, director of the New . . . — — Map (db m226152) HM
The Baseball Connection
"I am at [a] loss how to get verification of my statements regarding the invention of base ball." - Abner Graves, originator of the Doubleday myth, 1905
Abner Graves reported to the Mills Commission, created . . . — — Map (db m226148) HM
On July 4, 1827 both free and once-enslaved people of color celebrated emancipation in New York at this church with speaker Hayden Waters. — — Map (db m169506) HM
Founding Families
"I explored the country and meditated upon the spot where a place of trade or a village should afterwards be established" - William Cooper, A Guide to the Wilderness, 1810
William Cooper relocated his . . . — — Map (db m226156) HM
Indian Agent - Land Speculator
Lived in Pioneer Log House
Located Here 1769-1770.
General James Clinton's
Headquarters Here 1779.
— — Map (db m43351) HM
Nature's Splendor
"We've got to calling the place the 'Glimmerglass,' seeing that its whole basin is so often fringed with pines, cast upward from its face; as if it would throw back the hills that hang over it" - James Fenimore Cooper, . . . — — Map (db m226155) HM
Indian remains excavated in this field were reburied in 1874 at the base of this mysterious mound.The tablet, with poem by the Rev. W.W. Lord was placed over the remains by Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark in 1899.
"The wide land which now is . . . — — Map (db m98406) HM
On This Site Stood
Otsego Hall,
Bvilt By William Cooper,
The Fovnder Of Cooperstown, in 1798.
The Home Of
James Fenimore Cooper
Where He Lived From 1834
To The Day Of His Death
September 14th, 1851.
Destroyed by Fire in . . . — — Map (db m121197) HM
Bountiful Lands
"The [hop] crop was perhaps never larger in this county. We congratulate our Farmers on their good fortune." - The Freeman's Journal, November 5, 1852
Farmers have come to Cooperstown for centuries to . . . — — Map (db m226149) HM
Federalist
Stone Mason: James Allen
Carpenter: Cyrenius Clark
William Cooper's wedding gift to his daughter Ann and George Pomeroy, druggist.
Under the east eaves, stonemason James Allen
placed their initials: G.A.P.C. (George, . . . — — Map (db m190751) HM
Site of the First
National Baseball
Hall of Fame Induction,
June 12, 1939
* * * * *
Attended by
Grover Alexander, Ty Cobb,
Eddie Collins, Walter Johnson,
Nap Lajoie, Connie Mack,
Babe Ruth, George Sisler, Tris Speaker, . . . — — Map (db m190749) HM
Left Side:
2006
Otsego County
Ronald Tiderengal Superintendent of Highways
George Pataki Governor
Thomas Madison NYS DOT Commissioner
Earth Tech Engineer
Tioga Const. Inc. Contractor
County Road 52
Susquehanna Avenue . . . — — Map (db m253345) HM WM
34-36 Pioneer Street
Tunnicliff Inn
1802
Federal Townhouse Style
The Tunnicliff Inn was built by Lawrence McNamee and used as a general store for many years. It is one of the oldest brick structures on the village.
Cooperstown . . . — — Map (db m162464) HM
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Erected in lasting memory
of the Cooperstown area
men and women who served
in their country's wars
···
They gave their today
for our tomorrow — — Map (db m258848) WM
Erected by
the People of Cooperstown
In Honor of All Who Served
In Memory of Those Who Fell
1917 - World War - 1918
In Memory Of
Harry J. Andrews F. Clifford Bliss Robert G. Cobbett
Joseph A. Coleman James Fenimore Cooper . . . — — Map (db m258850) WM
In honor of the men from Cooperstown who served
their country during the World War
1917 1918
Alotta, Pietro Alotta, Salvatore Arnold, Robert R. Arnold, Lynn John
Atwell, Floyd J. Basinger, George A. Bliss, Howard A.B. . . . — — Map (db m258925) WM
