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COMMUNITY NEWS
CHAUTAUQUA STAR
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014
County Historical Society Annual Meeting Is April 26
ANNUAL EVENT WILL FEATURE LUNCHEON AND LECTURE ON NEWTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT CASSADAGA
by calling (716) 3262977, or by emailing
mcclurg@fairpoint.
net. No reservations
are required for those
only attending the
meeting and/or lecture
and who do not wish to
eat lunch.
For more information,
visit the Historical
Society’s events page
online to mcclurgmuseum.org.
Contributed Article
CCHS
The Chautauqua
County Historical
Society (CCHS) will
hold its 2014 annual
meeting on April 26 at
the Westfield Methodist
Church in Westfield.
The event will feature
an annual report from
the board of trustees
and a lecture - "The
Hospital on the Hill:
Recalling Cassadaga's
Newton Memorial
Hospital and its Transition to the Cassadaga
Job Corps." The lecture
will be presented by
Adam Dolce from the
Cassadaga Job Corps,
along with county historian Michelle Henry.
A luncheon will also
be available at a cost of
$15 per person.
The business portion
of the annual meeting
will begin at 11 a.m.
when CCHS President
James O’Brien provides
his annual report. In
addition, trustee and
McClurg Museum
curator John Paul Wofe
will provide an update
About the Society
The Chautauqua
County Historical
Society was established in 1883 and is
the oldest historical
society in Chautauqua
County, N.Y. Since
1951, the organization
The former Newton Memorial Hospital in Cassadaga, pictured here, treated tuberculosis patients for
several decades before closing in the 1950s. The sight would later become the location of the Cassadaga has been based out
Job Corps. Both facilities will be discussed in depth during the annual meeting of the Chautauqua
of the historic McCounty Historical Society, Saturday April 26 at the Westfield Methodist Church. (Submitted Photo)
Clurg Mansion (built
in 1818) in Westfield,
on the exhibits and
patients, closing in the who stayed there,
The meal will feature
N.Y. Annual Membercollections within the
late 1950s. In the late
why the U.S. Dept. of a chicken dinner from
historical building.
1970s, the Cassadaga
Labor decided to open Bark Grill in Westfield, ship rates start at just
$20. All members are
Job Corps began
the Job Corps and the along with beverages
At 1 p.m., Dolce and
given free access to the
operation on the 150sight, and also feature and desert. The cost
Henry will discuss
museum year-round
acre property. The two several historic images is $15 per person with
the history of the
and a subscription to
will provide a detailed of the grounds.
reservations due by
Newtown Memorial
history of the property, Between the meeting
noon Tuesday, April 22. the quarterly “Time
Hospital at Cassadaga,
Lines” newsletter. For
which for four decades which sits atop a hill
and presentation, a lun- Payment can be made
more information, call
overlooking Cassadaga cheon will be provided the day of the event.
fulfi lled its role in
716-326-2977 or visit
Lake. They will also
the care and treatat noon for anyone who Reservation for the
talk about the patients made prior reservations. luncheon can be made McClurgmuseum.org.
ment of tubercular
www.classifiedsonus.com
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