About Broome County Historical Society
A Century of Collecting the Southern Tier's Story
The Broome County Historical Society was organized during the summer of 1919 and subsequently incorporated, beginning with a membership of roughly twenty-five to thirty people whose first meeting was held in a men's clothing shop at 99 Court Street in downtown Binghamton. For more than a century since, the society has been collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of Broome County, New York — the Southern Tier region that grew up around Binghamton at the junction of the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers.
Today the society is headquartered at the Broome County History Center on the second floor of the Broome County Public Library at 185 Court Street in Binghamton. Its collection of more than 200,000 items spans the area's past from pre-history to the present and is preserved according to professional museum and archival standards. The History Center brings the society's holdings together with the local history and genealogy collections of the Broome County Public Library and the offices of the Broome County Historian, giving researchers a single destination for photographic images, printed histories, genealogical resources, maps, vertical files, and obituary indexes. Staff research services are available for a fee for those unable to visit in person.
The society presents nine regular programs each year, all free and open to the public, covering topics in regional history. It also publishes the Broome County History Bulletin along with two newsletter issues annually and a series of major publications on local history that are available for purchase, continuing the documentary mission its founders began in 1919.
Plan Your Visit
The Broome County Historical Society's History Center is located on the second floor of the Broome County Public Library at 185 Court Street in Binghamton, New York 13901. The center is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10 AM to 4 PM and Tuesday from noon to 8 PM. For program schedules and research information, visit broomehistory.org.
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