Hartwick History

Over 225 Years

Seven chapters of the College's history presented upon the 225th anniversary.

Hartwick College Historical Timeline

From the 1700's to Modern Day

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Hartwick Historical Resources

The following articles about Hartwick Seminary and College were written by or in collaboration with former College archivist and historian Shelley Wallace, who started in this role in 1985 and retired in 2021.

From Seminary to Liberal Arts College: Hartwick’s First 200 Years

John Christopher Hartwick: Orthodoxy and Pietism

Voices of the Seminarians

The Student Strike of 1924

A Greater Hartwick and a Greater Oneonta

Pine Lake: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Pastor Kunze’s Journey from England to Pennsylvania
This PDF is an excerpt from a volume written by Pastor John C. Kunze describing his journey from England to Pennsylvania during the summer of 1770. It is translated from German by former College Bibliographer Eric von Brockdorff. Dr. Kunze was a prominent Lutheran theologian who served as Hartwick Seminary’s first director and professor of theology from 1797 to 1807.

Paul F. Cooper, Jr. Archives

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