PROJECTS:
UHS would like to honor our veterans from all wars with a new granite memorial to be
placed on the town Common. Donations are gratefully accepted and fundraisers are ongoing.
Unity Historical Society is building a new Veterans Memorial
It is planned to be a black granite 2 sided monolith. The monolith is to be set on a granite base upon a brick patio with flag poles, on the Unity Town Common.
As a fundraiser, we will be selling bricks for $40 each with 3 lines of text or $50 each with 3 lines of text and a clip art image. Over the next year, we will be looking to the people of town to help by donating, volunteering or purchasing bricks.
The project dedication date is November of 2020.
Paypal donations for construction of Monument
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To purchase a brick
click here
The Town Pound
UHS is working with the Sullivan County, Unity School's 8th graders, and the State to rehabilitate the Town Pound. (The first pound was voted for in 1787 and was built of logs on the common.)
On April 25, 1796 the town of Unity voted: to build a pound on the Range way near Richard Moody's on the ledge. Voted it shall be 35 feet square
Voted to build it with stone 6 feet high, 4 feet thick at the bottom and 18 inches at the top, to be built with a true taper from the bottom to the top with both sides alike.
Voted it shall have 1 foot square timber on the top with a decent gate of hard wood, well hung. Said pound, set up with public vendue and struck off to Daniel Batchelder at 7 pound 10 shilling to be completed by the first of July next.
Pound Keepers were active until 1887. A name to remember might be the Pound keeper in 1874 was Abelalonymus Huntoon.
If you have not seen the Pound, it is on Carroll Brook Road across from the Center Cemetery and just around the bend on the left.
