Group Visits
2004

The Spring and Summer visitation to the Snyder Estate is up from last year. We have had more visits from local school groups this year than  in the past.  We have had visits by Geology  students  from SUNY New Paltz under the direction of Professor Russell  Waines and SUNY Ulster under the direction of Professor Schimmrich. 

    The visits by New York State Learn & Serve America students in March for the all day field training (see the last issue of Natural News) certainly added to our visitation total. 

    In May we had a very interesting visit by the teachers and students from the  Shawangunk Ridge School, in which we learned much about John Burroughs. [John Burroughs was a school teacher in Rosendale as a young man.] Visits by students from Elka Park, Ulster and Rifton Bruderhof have become  regular events. In July a large contingent of kids attending the Marbletown Community Summer Camp spent the morning at the museum and in the Widow Jane Mine.  We even had a visit from Girl Scout troop 282 all the way from Clay, NY.

    Adding to group events was the Annual Rosendale Chamber of Commerce picnic meeting held at the Estate.  Members of the D&H Transportation Heritage Council toured the Snyder Estate in the morning prior to its quarterly meeting in the afternoon at the D&H Canal Museum in High Falls.

    We hope that when school starts again in September that we will be visited by other school groups. In some case we take the cement history on the road. This October will find the Society giving  lectures at the Shokan Campus and  in November at the Waterford Museum

1904 Visit to a Cement Mine [CHHS Collection]