Editing Cooperstown, New York (section)

=== Cooperstown today ===
[[File:National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Entrance to the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]]]]

Cooperstown is best known as the home of the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]], which was founded in 1939 by [[Stephen Carlton Clark]]. According to an interview conducted in 1906 by the [[Mills Commission]], nearby resident Abner Graves attributed the game's invention to his deceased friend, [[Abner Doubleday]]. Graves stated that Doubleday invented [[baseball]] on a cow pasture within the village in 1839, the present site of [[Doubleday Field]], but this claim is [[Doubleday myth|universally discounted by baseball historians]].<ref name="shist">{{cite web
 | url = https://www.history.com/news/baseballs-cooperstown-myth
 | title = Cooperstown Baseball
 | date = August 22, 2018
| website = www.history.com
 | publisher = www.history.com
 | access-date = June 18, 2019
| quote = data}}</ref>

Once known as the "Village of Museums", until the 1970s Cooperstown also boasted the Indian Museum (adjacent to Lakefront Park), The Carriage and Harness Museum (displaying a world-class collection primarily from F. Ambrose Clark's estate; now the Bassett Hospital offices on Elk Street), and The Woodland Museum near Three Mile Point. The latter, opened in 1962 by heirs to the [[Anheuser-Busch]] company, folded in 1974. It ran a close third in annual attendance to the Hall of Fame and Fenimore Farm & Country Village.<ref name="nyt">{{cite web
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/18/obituaries/louis-busch-hager-58-theatrical-producer.html
 | title = louis busch hager
 | date = December 18, 1988
| work = www.nytimes.com
 | access-date = June 18, 2019
| quote = data}}</ref>

[[File:Fenimore Art Museum Cooperstown crop.jpg|thumb|right|275px|The [[Fenimore Art Museum]]]]

The [[Cooperstown Historic District]], [[Glimmerglass Historic District]], [[Middlefield District No. 1 School]], [[Fly Creek Historic District]], [[Otsego County Courthouse]], and [[United States Post Office (Cooperstown, New York)|United States Post Office]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>