Chemung County Historical Society

by Erin Doane, Senior Curator I love jigsaw puzzles and I love happening upon random interesting things in historic newspapers. A recent fin...

 by Susan Zehnder, Education Director This is a story of a business whose success literally ran dry. In early 1900, downtown Elmira was abuz...

  By Rachel Dworkin, archivist   During his lifetime, Frederick Douglass (February 14, 1818-February 20, 1895) was arguably the most fam...

  by Bruce Whitmarsh, Executive Director CCHS Executive Director, Bruce Whitmarsh Throughout 2025 the Chemung County Historical Society Bo...

  by Judith Edson Sheasley, a volunteer at CCHS “Strengthening the fabric of family life” was the goal of Elmira’s First Methodist Church (...

By Rachel Dworkin, Archivist   During and shortly after World War II, American servicemen married approximately 60,000 European women,...