Yates County History Center Awarded Grant

The Yates County History Center has been awarded the 2025 Greater Hudson Heritage Network Conservation Treatment Grant, totaling $7,500 for the conservation of the painting and frame of the “Portrait of Adam Hunt,” (1736-1806), artist unknown. This is the fourth grant the Yates County History Center has received from the GHHN to conserve historic portraits in its collection since 2019. The con-servation will be done by Klara Zold of Zold Art Conservators of Corning.
Hunt was a native of Rhode Island who moved to what is now Yates County with the Society of Universal Friends in the 1790s and was one of the founders of Milo Center. He was a veteran of the American Revolution, and his portrait is the only known image of a Revolutionary War veteran in Yates County. Hunt's image is featured in The World Turned Upside Down: 250 Years Since the American Revolution, an exhibit on the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the war. The exhibit can be visited in the Underwood Museum at the Yates County History Center, 107 Chapel Street, Penn Yan, Tuesdays-Fridays, 9 am to 4 pm.