GIFT SHOP
Many items are hand crafted by our Inn members (*)
These items vary in size, color, shape.
Items made by our blacksmith are available for purchase including:
‘s’ hooks (great for hanging plants inside and out, or for hanging pots from a pot rack): $4.00
salt spoons: $2.00 , and rose head tacks: $0.50 (*)
Wooden spoons (*)
$8.00
Wooden oven rack adjustor (*)
No more burnt knuckles! An oven rack adjustor keeps hands away from hot oven racks; this item is used to pull out an oven rack, and to push the rack back into place.
Made from cherry, walnut, curly maple, or white oak
$3.50
Browntown School house Paper doll kit -boy or girl (*)
$2.00ea or $3.50 for boy and girl set
Wool Sheep-(white, brown, or grey) (*)
$3.00
Girls bonnets (*)
$7.00
Pin cushions (*)
Velvet fruit, or Ladies hat (filled with raw wool- has lanolin to keep the pins from rusting)
$5.00
Lye Soap (*)
Perfect for washing grease stains out of clothes
$1.50
Wooden Window Jacks (*)
Used to hold open window sashes
Large $4.00
Small $2.00
Available books on local history:
Camera on Corning: The Photographs of Frank E. Hewitt Corning, New York, 1902-1917 A Selection by Mary Ann Sprague
These photographs were chosen out of a large collection of about 20,000 glass negatives. The images were chosen for their significance in revealing Corning’s history. They reflect how the people of Corning viewed themselves, their city, their places of business, their homes, and their children. They reveal stylistic trends in architecture, in clothing, coiffures, and set decoration. The Historical Society is indeed fortunate to have this valuable historical record through the camera artistry of Frank Hewitt.
Excerpt from the Forward, written by Mary Ann Sprague
$5.00
The Lands of The Painted Post
John H. and Phyllis G. Martin
This book describes three historic periods which affected western New York. First, it relates the story of Indian society and life before the American Revolution and the effect on that society of the Revolution and its aftermath. Next, it covers the creation of early white settlements and the life the settlers led. Lastly, it chronicles the development of these settlements into modern American towns and cities.
The story of the settlement and development of these communities was, in one sense, peculiar to this part of western New York, but at the same time it is also typical of the initial life of many American communities and the changes which a second revolution, the industrial revolution, brought to America. Thus this account may be of one small area of the United States, but in many ways it reflects much of American life over the past two hundred years.
Excerpt from the Preface, written by John H. and Phyllis G. Martin
$10.00
The Birth of Education in One-Room Country Schools:
The story of all the one-room and other schools in the Corning- Painted Post Area School District, New York, from 1793 to 1957
Illustrated with 98 historic photographs
Written and published by Ian G. Mackenzie
The purpose of this book is to tell the story of every known school that ever existed between 1793 and 1957 anywhere in the 235 square mile area now known as the Corning- Painted Post Area School District in western New York State. Very little literature exists describing these one-room schools, therefore the major emphasis in this book is on our former one-room schools. Personal recollections and engaging anecdotes of many former students and teachers at these schools are incorporated throughout the book. The last of these one-room schools closed in 1957.
Excerpt from the Preface, written by Ian Mackenzie
$19.95
A Brief History of the Corning- Painted Post Area School District 1945-1963
Written by Ian Mackenzie
Part 1- Corning Area Schools 1945-1957: How School District Consolidation Brought the End of One-Room Schools
Part 2- Corning Area Schools in the 1950s: Whatever Happened to all the One-Room Schools After School District Consolidation?
Part 3- Corning Area Schools 1957-1963: How We Decided to Build Two New High Schools
$3.00
A History of the Negro Community In Corning, New York
Written by John L. Driggins
About the author, Corning and its Negro community, Negro neighbors, Social life, The Driggins family, To Washington and back again, Harvey street, Working days, Mrs. Sinclaire and Mrs. Sullivan, Dr. Sullivan and me, The Awakening of a community, A new era, The Horton petition.
$7.40
The Indian Speaks Again
Compiled and Edited by David W. Anderson
This book preserves and recognizes the World War II home-front work of Edgar M. “Ed” Tillman. While some 475 sons and daughters of Painted Post were on active military duty, a small committee of citizens decided to publish a monthly newsletter with hometown news and mail it to those who were serving their country. Its title was “The Indian Speaks”. This book is designed to preserve the newsletters. They have been photocopied and presented in this book in their original form as a folded newsletter where possible.
Excerpt from the Foreward written by Audrey Phelps
$25.00
Good Old Doctor Mac, 1856-1927
Written by Robert F. McNamara
In the “famine years”, Irish immigrants usually ended up in the crowded “Little Irelands” along our Atlantic coast. But when Dr. Mac’s father, Patrick McNamara, decided around 1850 to leave rural county Limerick for America, he chose to settle in rural America, in Hornellsville, Steuben County, New York. It was there that this Erie railroad “gandy dancer” married an Irish-born farmer’s daughter. Four of their sons became medical doctors. An essay in non-urban medical history, this is an engaging memoir of Thomas Alexander McNamara, M.D. Born in Steuben County, New York, Dr. McNamara launched his career as a general practitioner in 1882, in the village of Corning, New York. During the next 35 years, he would achieve prestige in Corning as a progressive family physician, dedicated citizen, and respected father figure.
Excerpt from the back cover text
$12.95
From Soldier’s Home to Medical Center: A Glance at the 125 Year History of the Bath Soldier’s Home
Written by Robert E. Yott
This book takes us from the founding of the home in 1863 during the Civil War to help care for the hundreds of thousands of injured soldiers, to the present. The text leads us through the history of the Bath Soldier’s home, detailing the homes successes as well as the difficult times.
$17.95
Corning: Images of America
Written by Charles R. Mitchell and Kirk W. House
Lenses for railroad lanterns, cut glass for the White House table, Thomas Edison’s first light bulb – the glass for all of these was made in Corning, the glass capital of America, the Crystal City. From 1880 to World War I, newfound wealth sparked a spending and building boom that shaped the city. Corning recaptures the city’s gilded age, the boom days when tax-free fortunes could be made – and lost – overnight. Vintage photographs show elephants and buffalo parading down Market Street, the Drake family giving recitals on its home pipe organ, churches, and public buildings rising, carriages giving way to motorcars, and huge summer homes springing up on the Finger Lakes. (Excerpt from the back cover text)
$19.99
Painted Post: Images of America
Written by Jamie Bosket
South of the Finger Lakes, where four rivers converge, the Lands of the Painted Post have served people as both a thoroughfare and a gathering place for millennia. This region’s location within a passageway through the hills, its navigable water routes, and its tremendous potential for mill sites and agriculture rendered Painted Post a favored site for human settlement. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Painted Post experienced unprecedented cultural, social, and economic change. That history is vividly illustrated in Painted Post. (Excerpt from the back cover text)
$19.99
Browntown Schoolhouse Text Book
Compiled for use in the Browntown Schoolhouse educational program by the Corning-Painted Post Historical Society Education Committee.
Includes: Music, Reading, Arithmetic, Spelling, Geography, Helpful Information
$10.00