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Wayne County Historical Society - Honesdale, PA

Welcome to the Wayne County Historical Society, home of the full-size replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive to run on commercial track in the United States.

Our main museum and museum shop are housed in a building built in 1860 as headquarters of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company. The D & H Gravity Railroad, which carried anthracite coal from the mines of Lackawanna County to Honesdale, met the D & H Canal directly behind the building. The canal carried the coal from Honesdale to Rondout, New York, on the Hudson River.

The Marjorie Smith Gallery connects the 1860 building with the Jason Torrey land office, headquarters of one of the county's earliest entrepreneurs. Four additions built to house our expanding collections and research library complete the 810 Main Street complex in Honesdale.....continue reading.

 

Our Museums

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Main Museum

The Museum at Wayne County Historical Society on Main Street in Honesdale,…

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Bethel School

This one-room country school on Bethel School Road near the Poor Farm is…

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D & H Canal Park at Lock 31

The D&H Canal Park at Lock 31 has 16 beautiful acres to explore. The site…

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Old Stone Jail

Built in 1859, this squat stone edifice housed Wayne County's miscreants…

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J.B. Park Farm Museum

A Day in the Life of a Farm, Wayne County Agriculture: 1870-1930 is the…

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Adam Jubinsky Building

The Adam Jubinsky Museum was established via contributions donated by Mr.…

The D & H Canal Park at Lock 31

According to Phineas Goodrich in his 1880 book, History of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, “about [1815], Jason Torrey, Abisha Woodward, and Moses Kellam bought the place afterwards called the Daniels farm, built a frame house, called it New Castle, and carried on lumbering on a large scale there for many years, and then sold out the premises to Joseph Atkinson who in his turn, sold to Russell Daniels from Connecticut. [Daniels] became a noted lumberman, and for many years kept a public house…The lumber manufactured at New Castle was always in demand at Philadelphia.”
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Wayne County Architectural Church Tour
Oct 8, 2023, 10:00 AM
Date: Saturday, October 7, 2023 Start Time: 9:15am Start Location: Bethany Presbyterian Church, 431…
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Fall Guided Canal Park & House Tour
Oct 8, 2023, 10:00 AM
WCHS will sponsor a guided walking history tour of Lock 31 on October 7th at 10am. Cost is $10 with…
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Historic Preservation Award Ceremony 2023
Oct 21, 2023, 2:00 PM
Please join us to honor and celebrate the 6 award winners who have demonstrated their dedication to…
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Become a WCHS 2023 Sponsor
Oct 31, 2023, 6:00 AM
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Welcome to the Wayne County Historical Society, home of the full-size replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive to run on commercial track in the United States.

Our main museum and museum shop are housed in a building built in 1860 as headquarters of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company....click here for more information.

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Calendar of Events at Wayne County Historical Society
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News the Wayne County Historical Society

Historic Sites

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Galilee Post Office
Galilee Historic Preservation award in 2000 to G.H.Hovagimyan & Joyce…
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Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. Office
720 Hudson Street, Hawley In the early 1850s the Pennsylvania Coal Company…

Research Library

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Genealogy in Wayne County
Genealogical records WCHS Research Library at 810 Main Street, Honesdale…
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Historic Topics
Research materials at the WCHS Research Library, your best source for the…

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