Roeliff Jansen Community Library formerly the Hillsdale Public Library has been serving this community since 1913. The library's catalog and an information Newsletter are available on-line.

Norman Rockwell Museum houses the world's largest and most significant collection of Rockwell's work. Among the 574 original paintings and drawings are favorite Saturday Evening Post covers including Four Freedoms and Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas. More than 100,000 photographs, letters and other mementos are archived here. The museum was founded in 1969 with help by Rockwell and his wife and was located for 24 years in Stockbridge where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life. Its present 36 acre site overlooking the Housatonic River Valley, just off route 183, also contains Rockwell's studio and library, shown here.

Shaker Museum and Library are located in Old Chatham, New York, about 25 miles north of Copake. At the time of its founding in 1950, it was the first and only public museum dedicated to preservation of Shaker life, work, art and religious history. This collection of 28,000 Shaker objects and 19,000 archival pieces is America's most significant. Located close to the country's most significant Shaker site, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village in New Lebanon, it became natural for The Mount Lebanon Project to unite the two. The World Monuments Fund included the entire Mount Lebanon site in its 2006-2007 list after designating the North Family site in New Lebanon to its 2004-2005 Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites. Uniting the collection with the site will provide an extraordinary resource for study of America's Shaker movement.

Lindenwald - Martin van Buren's Home is located on Route 9-H, 30 miles north of Clermont, NY. This is the retirement home of the country's eighth President who enlarged the original Federal-style home and incorporated an Italianate style.

Clermont is the 500-acre historical site that was home to the Livingston family of New York for more than 230 years. It is located on the east shore of the Hudson River in the southwestern corner of Columbia County on Clermont Ave., off Woods Road. The Clermont estate was established in 1728 when Robert Livingston, Jr. (1688 - 1775) inherited a tract of 13,000 acres along the Hudson River from his father Robert Livingston (1654 - 1728), first Lord of Livingston Manor. This Manor comprised the southern third of modern Columbia County, including Copake, and was the second largest private landholding in colonial New York. Clermont, "clear mountain", refers to the Catskill Mountains across the Hudson River. Robert Livingston, Jr. was one drafter of the Declaration of Independence, the country's first Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chancellor of New York State, oath giver to America's first President, George Washington, negotiator for the Louisiana Purchase and partner with Robert Fulton in the development of the steamship, the Clermont.

Chesterwood Estate and Museum was the summer home, studio and garden of sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931). French enriched the country with sculptures of The Minute Man at Concord, MA, The Continents at the US Custom House in NY, Samuel F. Dupont Memorial Fountain and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. This 122-acre estate and museum explores French's style and creative process. On the estate's lawns and paths through the woods are dozens of contemporary sculptures selected by a different guest curator each summer. The estate, minutes from Stockbridge, is a National Trust historic Site.