Celebrating Our 23rd Year!

Welcome to the Austerlitz Historical Society. We are an educational non-profit community organization founded in 1988. Our mission is:

1)  To stimulate in all our citizens a keener interest in our town and appreciation of our heritage through educational programs.

2)  To establish and maintain a museum and provide information and educational programs for the benefit of the public.

3)  To collect and preserve artifacts dealing with the life and history of the Town of Austerlitz.

4)  To maintain, for the good of the community, the church and schoolhouse in the Village of Austerlitz.


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In addition to the exciting programs we are working on for 2011, we offer a full calendar of events and programs year-round, a quarterly newsletter, and a growing museum site, Old Austerlitz, where artifacts, photos and memorabilia relating to the Town are being collected and preserved, along with a collection of 18th and 19th century buildings. These buildings will augment the original one-room schoolhouse (c.1818) and 1850s church on the opposite side of State Route 22.

Austerlitz, first settled in the mid 1750’s, is a small, rural town along the Taconic Mountain range approximately 40 miles south of Albany, our State Capital.  Residents enjoy rural character, scenic vistas, abundant wildlife, low housing density, slow growth, historic structures and spirit of basic freedom and independence that has been present for generations. Read more about the Town of Austerlitz by clicking HERE

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