The Pratt Museum located in Prattsville New York was severely impacted during the recent Tropical Storm Irene flooding of Prattsville. We need your help!
Specifically the Zadock Pratt Museum is in need of funds to pay for conservators to restore furniture, period clothing, historic papers and books and other, more contemporary things like a new computer, new TV & video/DVD player, & lots more over the coming weeks, months. So, please, if you love local/regional history & want to support it, you can donate to the Museum by clicking Donate via Paypal below.
Please help the Zadock Pratt Museum!
News: Read about our struggle in the Wall Street Journal - 9-3-11
Our Mission
The Zadock Pratt Museum is dedicated to exhibiting the history and culture of the Northern Catskill Region from the 17th century to the present, with particular interest in the period during Prattsville Town Founder Zadock Pratt’s lifetime, 1790-1871 and the mid-19th century, the heyday of the hemlock based tanning industry in the early-to-mid 19th century, which is best illustrated by reference to the life of Zadock Pratt, the region’s most prominent tanner.
The Museum strives not only to preserve the historic Pratt Homestead and its collections, but also to interpret the above-referenced period of history and to attract to the Museum, through diversified programs, all age and interest levels, using the Historic House Landmark as a backdrop of many educational and cultural programs, events, and exhibits.
The story of the Zadock Pratt Museum is the story of early America from the arrival of Lieut. William Pratt to the shores of Massachusetts in 1632 with Puritan preacher Thomas Hooker to the establishment
of the largest tannery in the world by Colonel Zadock Pratt in the wilderness town of Prattsville, NY with the stories of the War of Independence, Civil War, Transcontinental Railroad, Washington
Monument and Smithsonian Institution as part of the story as well. A huge American story; an important early American family.
Zadock Pratt Museum
518-299-3395
email: prattmuseum@hotmail.com
PO Box 333,
Main Street,
Prattsville, NY 12468
