History & Culture · Western New York
Stafford Keeps Its Pottery Story Beside Town Hall
Stafford's museum gives the town a friendly local-history stop, with Morganville Pottery as a memorable piece of the story.
Published July 5, 2026 · Last verified July 5, 2026
Stafford has a local-history setup that feels very neighborly: the Stafford Museum of History is attached to the town hall. Visit Genesee County says the museum was built in 2004 and is one large room with artifacts, display cabinets, and information panels.
That scale is part of the charm. It is not trying to be a giant regional museum. It is a town room that helps people picture early settlement life in Western New York.
The piece that sticks is Morganville Pottery. Visit Genesee County says the museum’s Morganville Pottery collection is popular with visitors, and that pottery made in the nearby hamlet used a distinct reddish hue from locally excavated clay.
That little clay detail does a lot of work. You can picture a local material, a local hamlet, and an object someone might actually stop to look at.
Stafford can be a road on the way somewhere else if you do not know what to look for. Add the town-hall museum, the hamlet clay, and the pottery color, and the place gets easier to hold in your head. It becomes a town with a red-clay signature tucked into its local memory.