Program

NYS Historic

Subject

Industry & Commerce, Transportation

Location

15 Waddell Ave, Penn Yan, NY 14527, USA

Lat/Long

42.654622, -77.061577

Grant Recipient

Finger Lakes Boating Museum

In 1921, German immigrant Charles A. Herrmann founded the Penn Yan Boat Company to manufacture boats of all kinds in Penn Yan, NY. The company continued to grow and expand into a prolific boat building enterprise, eventually selling boats worldwide generating millions of dollars in revenue. In 1930, the company opened a new factory on Waddell Avenue in Penn Yan. Boats continued to be manufactured at this location until the closure of Penn Yan Marine Manufacturing in 2001.