The purpose of the Walworth Historical Society is to collect, preserve, and display items and artifacts that are of historical importance to the people of the Town of Walworth. Its membership has almost doubled in the years since 1975. Current members reside from Hawaii to South Carolina and many places in between. Many collections and individual items have been donated to the museum over the years.

The WHS is a volunteer organization that was officially established in 1975. Prior to this time, meetings were held at the homes of those interested in preserving the local past. Some of the people who were instrumental in organizing the Walworth Historical Society were: Ethel Henning, Dorothy Petty, Chuck Bills, Hazel Bassage, Howard and Pearl Billings, Cliff and Bernice Nortier, Cliff and Emily Huntley, Gene Bavis, Joe Finley, and John Traas to name a few. A provisional charter was received from New York State in January of 1979 and was extended in 1985 and 1987. The permanent charter was finally received in 1996.

The museum has collections of books by Walworth authors. Other collections include sets of old china, dishes, and local advertising memorabilia. Scrapbooks containing hundreds of newspaper articles concerning local, national, and international people and events, were compiled by Anna May, Dorothy Petty, and others. A recent donation to the Walworth Museum is an index of records from all eight local cemeteries. WHS member Doug Churchill has organized this cemetery information into books that have information on dates and grave locations. For more information on the WHS, visit the website at http://walworthhistoricalsociety.org.

The Voorheesville Public Library was established in 1915 by residents of the Village of Voorheesville to serve as the community's information center. The library was open five hours/week and housed a collection of about 700 books in a space located in the Village Firehouse. In 1929 the library was moved to 32 Main Street until 1988 when the library moved to its current location at 51 School Road where it hosts a collection of nearly 50,000 items. The library’s digital collection includes records documenting the people, places, and events of the Village of Voorheesville and to a lesser extent the Town of New Scotland.

The Volney History Center collects census records; photographs; family records; genealogies of Volney and Fulton families; school records; and extensive research on the Underground Railroad for the town and the surrounding area.

Vassar College is a private, liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was founded in 1861 as a college for women. Vassar has been co-educational since 1969. These collections consist of materials from the College Archives relating to the institution's early history, but also include items from our Manuscript Collection, such as the journals of the naturalist John Burroughs, and from our Music Library's collection of programs from concerts and other events.

Vassar Brothers Medical Center (VBMC) is a 365-bed facility that has served New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley since 1887. Overlooking the beautiful Hudson River in the City of Poughkeepsie, NY, VBMC has established expertise in cardiac services, cancer care and women and children’s health services. As a renowned regional medical center, VBMC houses the area’s first and only cardiothoracic surgery program between Westchester and Albany and the only Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the region for premature and critically ill infants. VBMC has a long-standing history and commitment to excellent patient care, including a highly regarded School of Nursing (1890-1972).

Utica School of Commerce was a private, for-profit business college with campuses in Utica, Canastota, and Oneonta.  The college operated from 1896 until closing in 2016 due to low enrollment.

Utica Public Library is a beautiful Neoclassical style library built in the early 20th century. As the central library for the Mid-York Library System, comprised of all public libraries in Oneida,Herkimer and Madison counties, the Utica Library serves as a regional resource center with one of the largest and most extensive collections in the tri-county area. The mission of the Utica Public Library is to develop the resources that enable us to serve as the source of information for our community.

The library has an impressive genealogy and local history collection, including many atlases and maps.

Teaching, research, and the archiving and sharing of significant historical document collections are the three pillars of our mission at the Utica University Center for Historical Research. We serve students, academic and non-academic historians alike. Through various outreach activities we endeavor to bring campus and community together to foster a greater understanding of the historical condition and its global importance.

In early 2015, the Center for Historical Research began the Digital History Project to collect and curate a digital archive of the Mohawk Valley's diverse history. We accept a wide variety of materials: personal correspondence, photographs, business records, journals, diaries, and many other types of historical artifacts. After each collection is digitized, we return all submissions and provide the owner with free digital copies.

Utica College was renamed as Utica University in 2022.

The JR Williams Health Sciences Library image archives is a digital repository for the historical development and growth of Highland Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. and the history of Highland’s School of Nursing. The archives’ collections tell the story of the "Rebel on the Hill", originating as a homeopathic hospital, and the first hospital in the United States to use insulin for the treatment of diabetes. When the hospital began it was named Hahnemann Hospital after homeopathy's founder, Dr. Samuel Christian Frederick Hahnemann, the name was changed to Highland Hospital in 1921.

The founding dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, George Hoyt Whipple, recognized the central role of the Library in the teaching, scholarship, and patient care that went on within its walls. When the Library was established in 1925, it was placed in the physical heart of the Medical Center, designating it as the intellectual hub of the institution It remains there today, embracing the latest technologies and teaching models, while maintaining time-honored traditions of scholarly pursuit.

The Library has a long history of generous support from donors, especially the Miner and Lamont families In 1927 Edward G. Miner, a trustee of the University and chair of the University Library Committee, donated the cholera and yellow fever portions of his valuable rare book collection to the Library. Mr. Miner continued to add to this collection until his death in 1955.

In 1967 Mr. Miner’s son-in-law, Thomas S. Lamont, made a substantial bequest to support the history of medicine collections.

The digitization of the Yellow Fever Collection is made possible through a generous gift from Ranlet and Beth Miner.