Page 4 - Town of Newcomb Newsletter - January 2021

The Town of Newcomb has made a considerable investment over

the last decade to ensure our local history is preserved. Providing
for the inclusion of historical collections, office space, meeting
space and exhibit rooms in a welcome center is important to be
able to display our local historical collections.

The Newcomb Historical Museum staff are currently based out of
the McCoy house which is woefully inadequate for archival storage,

setting out displays and exhibits, or even comfortable allowing the
public to access our archives for research purposed.

The Town Board recognizes this need and will look at other re-

sources in the town center area, specifically their use of the log
cabin Episcopal Church building being acquired by the Town.

While we are unsure of when it was built, we know the structure
dates back to when the Tahawus Club was operating out of the Vil-
lage of Adirondac in the Theodore Roosevelt years. Originally the
Seeley Camp, was on an island on Lake Sanford, when it was disas-
sembled and move to Tahawus in 1957, and used as a church. It

was then moved, in 1963 to Adams Lane in Newcomb.

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