Coming Events
The Parma Hilton Historical Society is pleased to offer various events throughout the year. Our upcoming programs are below. Please visit this page regularly as items may change and new programs added.
PHHS MONTHLY PROGRAMS and HISTORICAL LECTURE SERIES
Parma Hilton Historical Society is pleased to offer monthly presentations and guest speakers covering a range of topics related to local history or of general interest. These meetings are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.
Meetings are held the 2nd Monday of the month starting at 7 p.m. except during the summer months of June, July, and August when meetings are suspended.
Meetings are held at the Hilton Community Center’s Ingham Room, 59 Henry Street, Hilton, New York 14468.
- January 12, 2026 – When Hilton had a Department Store by Parma-Hilton Historian Dave Crumb
Join us on Monday January 12th at 7pm for a presentation about the Fraser Department Store by Parma and Hilton Historian Dave Crumb. From 1875 to 1941 brothers Allan and Evan Fraser, operated a store in Hilton (then called North Parma until 1895). The first store began as a small general store in the old Tennison Block on the corner of Main Street and South Avenue. Riding the wave of prosperity that the arrival of the new R.W. and O Railroad brought to Hilton, the store changed location and grew to one of the largest country stores for a town the size of Hilton in Western New York. There was good luck and bad luck in this operation, but through the years it prospered and served the greater community diligently until the great depression, the automobile, and good roads signaled its decline and finale in 1941.
- February 9, 2026 – Erie Canal presented by Dan Cody
- March 9, 2026 – Frederick and Anna Douglass presented by Rose O’Keefe
PHHS Book Club
Join us at Parma Public Library on Tuesday January 6, 2026 at 6:30pm for our next book club meeting. We will be discussing Hilton USA, by Leith Wright. Copies of the book are available to borrow from the library. All are welcome! Please register with the Parma Public Library through this link.