OGDENSBURG – A talk by local historian David Martin April 30 at 6 p.m. will precede the formal unveiling of the exhibits at the Ogdensburg History Museum at 7 p.m. Admission is $5. Museum members can attend for free.

The museum is located at 206 Ford Street, down the hall from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

Ogdensburg’s famed artisan Harry Horwood (1838 - 1917) came to Canada from England in the early 1850s and started working as a stained glass maker in Toronto. He later opened stained glass businesses in Ogdensburg and Prescott, Ontario.

Today, his works can be found at Ottawa’s Notre Dame Cathedral and Public Library,

Maitland, Ontario’s Blue Church and St. James Anglican Church, the Universalist Church in Henderson New York, Prescott, Ontario’s St John's Anglican Church and at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church as well as Ogdensburg’s Frederic Remington Museum, First Presbyterian Church, Notre Dame Church, Congregational Church, and the First Baptist Church.

The other exhibit will detail Ogdensburg’s early role as the industrial center of Northern New York and southern Ontario with exhibits showing how the early settlers harnessed the Oswegatchie River’s waterpower to run grist mills, sawmills and operate businesses like distilleries and leather works to attract the pioneer families from both sides of the St. Lawrence River to come to Ogdensburg.

“The Ogdensburg History Museum is proud to invite the public to see our latest exhibits and to learn about one of the gilded age’s great artists from our area,” said Museum Vice President James Reagen. “Since our small group of volunteers opened the museum just a year and a half ago, we have worked hard to tell the fascinating stories of our community’s rich cultural history. With the help of the St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency and the Sweetgrass Foundation, we have been developing professional exhibits to help interpret our community’s colorful past.”

“Our board would like to invite the community to see our new exhibits and all the changes we have made over the past year,” he said. “Our goal has been to offer constantly changing exhibits to tell the wonderful stories of our community.”