Welcome to Home Page of

ALLEGANY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

• CONSTITUTION
   

• BYLAWS

Recently the Allegany County Historical Society was granted a "revived" Charter by the NYS Board of Regents, State Education Department.

Following the Charter being granted, a formal Corporate Organizational Meeting was held and the "rest is history!"

Membership has now been opened and your help is sincerely needed to financially and personally support the Society.

Below is the first (Charter Edition) published newsletter issued by the Society and explains a lot of the purposes and the Vision of the Society.

Please read the information, join the society, and let us know how you might be able to assist us in building a useful and educational organization.

 

Vision for Allegany County Historical Society

  

The Allegany County Historical Society is an educational organization which interprets the history of Allegany County, New York, by accepting, collecting and preserving artifacts, operating a museum, conducting educational programs, publishing material on the county, and encouraging others to preserve and protect the history of the county. 

Our constitution states, in part, that one of the purposes of this society is to "gather, preserve, display and make available for study genealogy information, manuscripts, papers relating to the genealogy of Allegany County."

Another important purpose is to foster mutual cooperation between all local historical societies, museums and historians within the borders of Allegany County so that the public may best observe artifacts, books, manuscripts, papers, photographs and other records and materials relating to the art, science & history of the Allegany County region within New York State.

Membership Classes, from Constitution of ACHS

Membership shall be of five classes:

1. Individual active members - Any person interested in the purposes of the society shall be eligible.  

2. Family members - Any family groups interested in the purposes of the society shall be eligible.

3. Institutional members - Any organization, board, school, or library interested in the objectives of the society shall be eligible.  

4. Contributing and sustaining members - A person, group or firm offering special support to the objectives of the society shall be eligible.  

5. Honorary members - Honorary membership may be conferred upon any person whose activities have contributed to the objectives of the society. Honorary members shall be elected by a three-fourths vote of members present at an annual meeting, upon nomination by the board of trustees.  

 

(to print -only- this form below, right click anyplace on the page and choose "print picture"...)

or, press:

AlleganyCountyHistSociety/CharterAppl.pdf