Exhibit: 1778 Indian Raids
The 1778 Indian raids in Springfield and nearby towns were carried out by Joseph Brandt and his group of Indians and Tories. “Indians and Tories have made a descent upon the settlement called Springfield and have burnt and destroyed the same. The greatest part of the inhabitants were moved, but some of them were there. […]
The Murals in the Carroll House Tavern and Cooke Inn
In 1831, an itinerant artist by the name of William Price, signed and dated the murals he had painted on the walls of the Carroll House Tavern. More than 100 years later, in 1957, conservators from the Winterthur Museum would purchase the Carroll House, dismantle the mural walls and move them to their new home […]
Squire Whipple Exhibit
Squire Whipple, a civil engineer and one-time resident of Springfield, is considered the “Father of the Iron Bridge”. The first iron bridge he designed was fabricated by his brother-in-law, Oliver Shipman, in Springfield. By the 1880’s, 90% of the bridges over the Erie Canal were Whipple bridges. This exhibit displays various photographs of Whipple bridges […]