Local Government Historians By Region & County

This is the list of municipally appointed public historians, co-historians, assistant historians and deputy historians.

Contact information on this page is updated periodically.

If you find an error or incomplete listing, please send a message to our membership chair at publichistoriansnys@gmail.com.

In addition to the New York State Historian, there are almost 1,600 local government historians in New York State. The state historian law requires that a local public historian is appointed in each city, town, village, or borough, and allows for the appointment of a historian in each county by said local governments.

APHNYS provides listings for all local government appointed historians in the Empire State, and has divided the state into twelve regions.  This list is by region, then county, and then municipality.

You may either click on a county in the picture below to view the relevant historian listing, or scroll down to the county's name.