Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Historic Cooperstown

Cooperstown was founded in the late 1786 by William Cooper, a judge and member of Congress. His mansion, which burnt down many years ago, stood next to what is now the Baseball Hall of Fame. Several of the stone houses that William Cooper built are still standing in the village.

The son of William Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper, became one of the best-loved novelists in the United States with his Glimmerglass tales, including his most noted work, The Last of the Mohicans.

The Village of Cooperstown was incorporated in 1812. At that time the village had 133 houses, 57 barns and 686 residents. The National Baseball Hall of Fame was established in the quaint New York hamlet of Cooperstown in 1939. The museum cemented the town’s place in American historic lore, which had begun over one hundred and fifty years earlier.

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Vintage Photographs of Historic Cooperstown

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Classic Film Clips of Babe Ruth

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

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