The Williamson-Pultneyville Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit all-volunteer organization. Located in the historic district in the hamlet of Pultneyville, New York.

The Society owns and manages three properties –

The W-PHS house at 4130 Mill Street,

Historic Gates Hall at 4107 Lake Road and

Centennial Park in the center of the hamlet.

The Society house features both permanent and revolving exhibits and extensive archives and is open to the public weekends mid-June through mid-October and by special appointment November-May. Gates Hall, which was formerly Union Church when founded in 1825 as the community’s first sacred place of worship became an entertainment venue, lecture hall and community gathering place in 1867 and was renamed in 1893 to Gates Hall.  Today, the Hall proudly bears the distinction as the oldest, continuously active small community theatre in the United States, residing on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Pultneyville is situated along the Seaway Trail in Wayne County, NY between Rochester and Syracuse on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in the northern Finger Lakes Region.