Book available from Historical Society

The Executive Director of the Wayne County Historical Society is pleased to announce that copies of the book, Remembering Wayne: A Pictorial View of the People, Places, and Pastimes of Wayne County, New York, are now available for purchase in the Museum gift shop in Lyons.

This 250-page, soft-covered, indexed, 8 1/2' x 11' Society publication contains approximately 500 captioned pictures that reflect the first 150 years of Wayne County's 175 years of history. The Lyons National Bank generously sponsored the book's publication. Chapter titles of the book include

Trains, Trolleys Transportation,
School Days,
People & Pastimes,
The Canal,
Wayne County,
Sodus Point,
Red Creek,

and other titles naming each of the County's 15 towns.

Nearly every chapter includes a brief historical comment pertaining to that section.

Books are being sold for $20 a copy. A portion of the profits made from book sales will go to fund future Wayne County Historical Society publications. Copies of Remembering Wayne will also be available for purchase from some area historical societies or town historians. Profits from those sales will aid the members of that historical society or that historian in the mission of promoting local history.

To order a book, please call the Society office at 315.946.4943, Tuesday-Friday, 10-noon and 12:30-4 p.m.

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