Batestown Museum 1855

☞ A museum has been opened at Batestown. The collection consists of 'a mammoth beet' belonging to Francis of the Troy Times, and a 'pair of buckskin suspenders' worn by the man who built the overslaugh. Admission twenty-five cents. Children, 'looking through the cracks,' six and a half cents each.—Albany Knickerbocker.Buffalo Morning Express. September 27, 1855: 2 col 4.