The LeFevre Family Association

09/17/2025

Repair(ations): Preserving African American Spaces

For the 3rd year in a row, the New Paltz Community Partner Organizations (the Elting Memorial Library, Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center, Historic Huguenot Street, and the New Paltz Historical Society) have come together to bring the New Paltz community free programming that explores and celebrates Bla...

09/17/2025

Six Feet Under Huguenot Street: An (Educational) Tour of the Historic Burying Ground

Enjoy an evening amongst the graves this autumn with Historic Huguenot Street. Join us for a guided tour of our historic "Old Huguenot Burying Ground" on select Thursday evenings in September and October. Visiting various gravestones stretching back to the earliest generations of European settlers i...

07/08/2025

Historic Huguenot Street program.

"Those That Sustain Us: Native Plants As Both Food and Medicine," a grounds tour with Misty Cook & Justin Wexler

Sunday, July 13, 2025
1:00 PM 3:00 PM

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Join us for an exploration of the grounds of HHS and learn all about native plant foods and medicines of importance to the Esopus Lenape in the past and to their descendants today. This walk is co-led by traditional medicine expert Misty Cook, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohi

06/18/2025

New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event 2025

Historic Huguenot Street presents:

Saturday, June 28th, 2025 from 10 am to 5 pm (EDT) and;
Sunday, June 29th, 2025 from 10 am to 4 pm (EDT)
There's just over ONE WEEK left before our 4th annual New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event! Throughout this event, visitors will discover Lenape Delaware, Black, and European demonstrators sharing their craftsmanship and culture, and portraying life in mid-17th century New Netherland. Join us on Saturday, June 28th, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, and Sunday, June 29th, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM for this amazing event!

Members of the federally recognized Lenape Delaware communities, which currently reside in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario, will be returning to their sacred homelands to portray the life of their ancestors and their economic relationship with the European settlers. Their camp will have ongoing open fire cooking, cordage making, bow shooting, flintknapping, arrow making, and hide tanning demonstrations throughout the weekend. Each day, tribal members will offer a cultural stomp dance demonstration, in which visitor participation is encouraged. North American Dingos, also known as the Carolina dog, will be present and used to discuss Eastern Woodland hunting traditions and more.

Living historians portraying European merchants, performers, and craftspeople will offer demonstrations on wood working, hearth cooking, tailoring, wampum making, spinning wool, and more. This year’s marketplace will include displays of camp gear and furs, clothing, wooden bowls, children’s toys, and other items for sale. Musicians will regularly perform to crowds and, just like years past, children and adults alike will line up to enjoy a classic Dutch folktale via a raree show, an exhibition of pictures and objects viewed through a small hole in a box. Scheduled programming will include demonstrations on 17th century martial arts and cutlass fighting, a quack show, and a portrayal of Adriaen van der Donck.

Members of the group Inalienable Rights, the Living History arm of The Slave Dwelling Project, will present the lives and histories of some of the colony’s first enslaved people. Presenters will offer African storytelling, artisan demonstrations, brick making, and more as they convey the significant contributions that the enslaved brought to the early colony, amidst the brutal conditions and horrors they faced, daily.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is highly encouraged and appreciated.

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06/11/2025

Historic Huguenot Street presents:
Free Admission Day
Sunday, June 15th from 10 am to 4 pm (EDT)

HHS is excited to offer free tours on June 15, 2025 in conjunction with the New York State Path Through History Weekend. During a tour of Historic Huguenot Street, visitors will explore the multicultural history of a unique American settlement, known today as New Paltz, New York. While touring three of the street’s structures, visitors will consider how individuals of each cultural group were affected by their physical environment and social status.
• The replica wigwam represents the strength and sacrifices of this region’s Indigenous peoples, the Esopus Munsee, from pre-colonial America to the present day.
• The reconstructed 1717 French Church teaches the Hudson Valley’s multicultural beginnings, including the history of Huguenot persecution in France leading to their immigration to North America.
• The early 18th-century Jean Hasbrouck House shares colonial life for both the free and enslaved members of the community, as well as the critical historical events that shaped the nation.

Tours will be offered 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 12 pm, 2:30 pm and 3:00 pm. Each experience lasts approximately one hour.

Space is limited. Pre-registration is highly encouraged!
Tours will begin at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center, promptly at the specified tour time. If you are not present at the start of the tour, your spot may be given to another visitor.

11/18/2023

https://www.huguenotstreet.org/calendar-of-events/2023/11/19/digging-into-documents?fbclid=IwAR3Qbl_CuVRJT9vuwiaN8Gom6ZFiQ9zIs9KsJuLNzVQKImd34dvk6KmM_gE

Julie van den Hout and Jaap Jacobs, who translated part of the manuscript collection of HHS, will focus on how the translated documents shed light on economic and religious aspects of daily life in New Paltz in the 1700s.  Jaap Jacobs (PhD Leiden, 1999) is affiliated with the University of

08/31/2023

"Boos & Brews" Haunted Huguenot Street Site Tour
With ALL NEW STORIES for 2023!
Every Friday AND Saturday in September from 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Join HHS for "Boos & Brews," a Haunted Huguenot Street Site Tour!

EVERY Friday AND Saturday evening in September, HHS will be offering walking tours of the National Historic Landmark District that focus on the darker side of New Paltz’s history.

HHS is proud to bring you an ALL NEW collection of stories this year, entirely true, and never before told on Huguenot Street!

Join HHS at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center at 6:30 PM for a locally-made hard cider, craft beer, or non-alcoholic option. Then, follow your guide for an exterior walking tour where you’ll explore stories of tragic deaths, heinous crimes, and unexplained occurrences in New Paltz past.

Admission includes one beverage of your choice.

Bottled water and lemonade will also be available.

The tour discusses topics such as death, murder, and su***de. Parental supervision is required for children under 13.

$22 General Admission

$17 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, veterans, active military members and their families, and children under 13.

Free admission for children under 6.
To register go to:

08/31/2023

Historic Huguenot Street Membership Sale
Fall Membership Sale: Two Days Left!
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There are two days left to get 50% off of HHS memberships! This coming fall will see a bevy of events at Historic Huguenot Street: there will be two concerts by Hudson Valley Baroque, a lecture by Pulitzer Prize finalist Phillip Dray, the return of the ever-popular Haunted Huguenot Street, and more, all on top of our incisive tours through our National Historic Landmark District, and the easiest way to get involved with everything happening at HHS is to become a member. Consider buying a membership for yourself, or as a gift for a loved one!

Membership benefits include:

Unlimited free guided tours of the historic site
Access to members-only newsletter
Presale opportunities and discounts for our most popular events, and free admission to select lectures
Discounts at the museum shop
The sale closes at 11:59 PM on Friday, September 1. We hope to see you on the street this fall!

Our members help us preserve the nationally-significant historic stone houses and buildings on Huguenot Street and share thousands of years of history through our educational programs. Your support provides our on-site and online programs with much-needed resources to serve families and individuals....

07/07/2023

"Summer Woods Walk" with Wild Hudson Valley's Justin Wexler
Sunday, July 9th, from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm.

Join ethnoecologist Justin Wexler for one or more of this year's seasonal explorations of the Nyquist-Harcourt Wildlife Sanctuary. On these walks, we explore the natural world through the lens of Northeastern native languages, history and folklore. By early July, a number of native shrub species bea...

04/26/2023

New Paltz Historic Documents Project

As members of the LeFevre Family Association already know, the National Endowment for the Humanities has funded a collaboration between four New Paltz, New York, institutions to digitize their collections of historical documents. These institutions include Historic Huguenot Street, the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection, the Town of New Paltz, and the Reformed Church of New Paltz. The digitized documents include letters, photographs, deeds, wills, business records, diaries, and other items. A good share of the documents relate to members of the LeFevre Family. The digitization of documents is an ongoing process which will result in approximately 24,000 pages uploaded by June 2024. Many of the documents are already available online at https://nyheritage.org/collections/new-paltz-historic-documents . A few of the interesting documents we accessed today included LeFevre civil war letters, Josiah P. LeFevre’s farm journal from the 1830s, and the first register of the New Paltz Reform Church begun in 1683.

The Town of New Paltz was established in 1677, when twelve men and their families, in search of religious freedom and economic opportunity, signed an agreement with sachems of the Esopus-Munsee tribe to reside on nearly 40,000 acres of their land. A patent was then granted by the first proprietary g...

03/09/2023

Historic Huguenot Street Event

"Sights and Sounds of Late Winter" with Wild Hudson Valley's Justin Wexler
Saturday March 11th, from 11:00 am to 12:30pm.

Join ethnoecologist Justin Wexler for one or more of this year's seasonal explorations of the Nyquist-Harcourt Wildlife Sanctuary. On these walks, we explore the natural world through the lens of Northeastern native languages, history and folklore. See how the wetlands and woods awaken when winter t