A successful 7th Annual Garden & Historic Building Tour!

Our 2025 Tour featured eight all-new sites in Canandaigua, showcasing five private gardens and three historic buildings – the West Lake School House, Woodlawn Cemetery Chapel, and Finger Lakes Visitors Connection. The gardens illustrated landscaping with succulents, native plants, edibles, as well as rewilding. We introduced “Garden Month” this year by offering unique programming throughout […]

OCHS Thanks Chris Hubler

OCHS thanks Chris Hubler for 9 years as OCHS Board of Trustees President. Thank you, Chris for your excellent leadership!

Thank You!

Thank you to The William G. Pomeroy Foundation for a grant to build our new website, and to LaBarge Media for helping us to build it!

OCHS recognizes Betty McMahon

OCHS recognizes Betty McMahon for many years of excellent leadership and volunteer service as Research Team Leader. She has been named as the most recent recipient of the Herbert and Helen Ellis Award for her contribution to the study of the history of Ontario County.

Geoff Astles is named as the new OCHS Board of Trustees President

Geoff Astles has lived in Ontario County since 1980 when he began his career in county government, initially as the Planning Director and eventually as County Administrator. His lifelong interests in history, biography, and genealogy included college degrees in history, government, and economics. As the family genealogist, he discovered ancestors that lived in Hopewell, Stanley, […]