Amador County Museum's Livery Building Fund
For the past 5-years, the Amador County Historical Society has been raising funds to construct a new Livery Building at the Amador County Museum. The existing building that houses the Museum’s early day wagons and carriages is in poor shape and exposed to the elements, allowing the wagons, carriages and heritage artifacts to deteriorate. The new building will become an exciting new attraction at the museum, housing freight and buckboard wagons, carriages and buggies, blacksmithing tools and other historic equipment. The Historical Society has raised approximately 40% of the funds needed to construct the new building, and all donations are greatly appreciated! Donations can be accepted on-line... look to the top of the right side of this page under "Donate to the Livery Stable Building".
The Society was founded to solicit, acquire, preserve and provide access to a collection of artifacts, historical paper, photos, ephemera and miscellany of Amador County history. Through newsletter, this web-site and other media it has and will encourage citizen support of historical preservation."
The Amador County Historical Society (ACHS) was founded c1944 to gather and preserve the county's rich gold rush history since 1848. ACHS encouraged and persuaded county supervisors to acquire the old Brown family, 2-story home on Court House Hill from family heirs and established the Amador County Museum dedicated on June 18, 1949.
The Society soon headquartered there and began gathering and collecting the historical paper, photos, ephemera and artifacts to preserve and display in the museum. In early years the Society operated the museum, and, when the county hired an on-site curator, ACHS held their meetings in another building on the grounds. Though the county owns both the building and collection, ACHS has always been involved or supportive of the museum and its collection. In June 2013, the ACHS officially took over the operation of the museum and mine model exhibit. With volunteer help, the museum is now open on a regular basis.
The Society in the late 1970s and early 1980s led a campaign to preserve the old county hospital. In 2010 it helped preserve and acquired half interest in the Amador Central Railroad constructed in 1904. ACHS has an office in the cottage on the museum grounds.
