Located on a 500-acre farm, the Penfield Homestead Museum exhibits objects from daily life in the mid-1800s. A pond-side walking tour will carry you by the ruins of a nineteenth-century iron town and the Congregational Church where its workers and their families worshipped. We are a regional historical records repository, housing genealogical files, maps, church records, and business records of the Crown Point Iron Company. We are located in the hamlet of Ironville, the "Birthplace of the Electrical Age," where the electromagnet was used in the first-ever industrial application of electricity.
Genealogical files Business records from the Crown Point Iron Company Church records Vital Statistics for the town of Crown Point and the hamlets of Ironville and Hammondville Photographs, including railroads and mining, Seneca Ray Stoddard and E.M. Johnson photos
10-member Board of Directors
Access: General Public, Students, Scholars
Appointment required: True
June-October Thursdays-Sundays