Headquartered around the Rochester area. Sites include those related to the Burned-Over District; Hill Cumorah and other historic markers of Mormonism; Houghton College and Roberts Wesleyan College, flagship evangelical institutions; archives relevant to Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, and Shakerism; the Frank Lloyd Wright Museum/House; other local spots of historical and cultural significance.
Corning/Elmira, including for links to the Underground Railroad; Watkins Glen and other historic state parks, especially around Ithaca; making contacts and investigating local history at Cornell University, where Project Director Eberstadt already has two speeches planned for 2025.
Oneida County and environs. Sites include a pivotal point in the Revolutionary War, Oriskany Battlefield; Fort Stanwix, its archives, and associated museums in Rome, NY; sites of utopian experiments, most notably, the Oneida Community; the Erie Canal and archives in Rome, Utica, and beyond. Cooperstown: Fenimore Art Museum and surroundings (James Fenimore Cooper’s homestead); Council Rock Park, historical meeting place of Central New York tribes.
Local museums, including the New York State Museum and the Schuyler historical mansion; religious sites including the Auriesville Shrine, commemorating the French Jesuits martyred in the 17th century at the Mohawk village of Ossernenon; the Adirondack Experience, a historical exhibition on Blue Mountain Lake; Lake Champlain, site of the failed but influential Huron mission of Jean de Breebeuf.
Local sites of particular interest include the George Gustav Heye Center for the National Museum of the American Indian; Museum of the City of New York; New York Historical Society; and other institutions relevant as background to the Project.
