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County: ALBANY
Town: ALBANY, CITY OF

ALBANY
CALLED FORT NASSAU 1614,
FORT ORANGE 1624,
BEVERWYCK 1652, ALBANY
1664; CHARTERED 1686
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF STATE ST.
ALBANY CITY HALL
CITY CHARTERED JULY 22, 1686
THIS BUILDING ERECTED 1882
TOWER CONTAINS MUNICIPAL
CARILLON OF 60 BELLS
Location: EAGLE ST. BETWEEN MAIDEN LA. AND PINE ST.
BIRTHPLACE OF
MODERN ELECTRICITY
HERE DISCOVERING MAGNETIC
INDUCTION, JOSEPH HENRY
PIONEERED THE TELEGRAPH
AND ELECTRIC MOTOR, 1829-31
Location: WASHINGTON AVE., NEAR EAGLE ST.
BIRTHPLACE OF
AMERICAN UNION
NEAR THIS SITE, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN PRESENTED THE 1ST
FORMAL PLAN OF NATIONAL
UNION; CONGRESS OF 1754
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF STATE ST.
CLERMONT
NEAR THE FOOT OF MADISON
AVENUE ROBERT FULTON IN
AUG. 1807, COMPLETED THE
FIRST SUCCESSFUL
STEAMBOAT VOYAGE
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF STATE ST.
COLONIAL HOSPITAL
NEAR THIS SITE STOOD THE
MILITARY HOSPITAL WHERE THE
WOUNDED FROM TICONDEROGA,
1758 AND SARATOGA, 1777
WERE ATTENDED.
Location: LODGE AND PINE STS.
COLONIAL WARPATH
RENDEVOUS OF TROOPS IN
FIVE WARS. HERE ARMIES
UNDER ABERCROMBIE, LOUDOUN
AND AMHERST MOVED TO THE
CONQUEST OF CANADA 1756-60
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF STATE ST.
COURT OF APPEALS
HIGHEST TRIBUNAL IN
NEW YORK STATE
THIS BUILDING ERECTED 1842
Location: EAGLE AND PINE STS.
EXECUTIVE MANSION
RESIDENCE OF THE GOVERNORS
OF NEW YORK STATE
Location: EAGLE AND ELM STS.
FIRST CHURCH IN ALBANY
REFORMED
ORGANIZED 1642
PRESENT BUILDING
DESIGNED BY PHILIP HOOKER
ERECTED 1798
Location: SW CORNER N. PEARL AND ORANGE STS.
FORT ORANGE
SITE OF WEST INDIA COMPANY
COLONY 1624. HERE WAS BORN
SARAH RAPELJE, FIRST WHITE
CHILD IN N. Y. STATE, 1625
FORT STOOD S. E. BY THE RIVER
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF STATE ST.
FORT VAN NASSAU
BUILT 1614 BY THE DUTCH
EXPLORERS CHRISTIAENSEN
AND BLOCK. FIRST TRADING
CENTER ESTABLISHED IN
NEW YORK STATE
Location: PORT RD., NR. ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
FROM THIS GROUND
GLENN CURTISS
BEGAN THE FIRST LONG
DISTANCE AIRPLANE FLIGHT
ALBANY TO NEW YORK
MAY 29, 1910
Location: PORT RD., NR. ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
GENERAL BURGOYNE
OVER THIS ROAD ENTERED
ALBANY WITH HIS STAFF AFTER
THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA
GOING TO SCHUYLER MANSION
AS PRISONERS OF WAR - 1777
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF STATE ST.
GENERAL WASHINGTON
TRAVELED THIS ROAD ON
HIS TOURS OF THE MOHAWK
VALLEY 1782 AND 1783
Location: WASHINGTON AVE. NR. SWAN ST.
HENRY HUDSON
EXPLORER, HERE ENDED THE
VOYAGE OF THE HALF MOON
IN QUEST OF THE INDIES
SEPTEMBER, 1609
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF STATE ST.
HERMAN MELVILLE
AUTHOR OF"MOBY DICK",
STUDIED AND WORKED DURING
FORMATIVE YEARS IN ALBANY,
1830-1838, FAMILY HOME AT
3 CLINTON SQUARE, 1834-1838
Location: CLINTON SQ., N. PEARL AND ORANGE STS.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS STREET
TO THE EAST STOOD
FORT FREDERICK
GOAL OF BURGOYNE'S DRIVE TO
SPLIT THE COLONIES - 1777
Location: CAPITOL PARK, EAGLE AND STATE STS.
IROQUOIS TREATY
AUGUST 1684
BASIC PEACE BY GOV. DONGAN
GOV. HOWARD OF VA. AND
FIVE NATIONS AT COURT HOUSE
WHICH STOOD 100 FEET WEST
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF HUDSON AVE.
JOHN TUNNICLIFF, JR.
1751-1814
CRAFTSMAN AND SUPERINTENDENT
OF TOWN CLOCKS
Location: MAIDEN LANE BETWEEN EAGLE ST. AND LODGE ST.
NEAR HERE
MOHAWK AND HUDSON
FIRST RAILRAOD
CHARTERED IN THIS COUNTRY
1826, BEGAN ITS RUN ALBANY
TO SCHENECTADY
Location: WESTERN AVE., NR. NORTH ALLEN ST.
NEW YORK STATE
OFFICE BUILDING
CORNERSTONE LAID BY
GOV. ALFRED E. SMITH, 1928
Location: S. SWAN ST. AND WASHINGTON AVE.
PATROON STREET
FORMER NAME OF CLINTON AVE.
THIS WAS THE DIVIDING LINE
BETWEEN THE CITY OF ALBANY
AND THE MANOR OF
RENSSELAERWYCK
Location: CLINTON AVE. AT N. PEARL ST.
PIONEER ROUTE
AT THIS POINT THE PIONEERS
GOING WEST IN OX CARTS AND
HORSE DRAWN CARAVANS ASSEMBLED,
THIS STREET FORMERLY CALLED
THE BOWERY
Location: CENTRAL AVE., NR. NORTHERN BLVD.
SCHENECTADY GATE
NEAR THIS POINT THE PATH
TO SCHENECTADY USED BY
INDIANS AND FUR TRADERS
LED THROUGH THE PALISADES
WHICH ENCLOSED THE CITY
Location: MAIDEN LA. BETWEEN EAGLE AND LODGE STS.
STATE EDUCATION BUILDING
DEDICATED 1912. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
OFFICES; STATE LIBRARY; STATE MUSEUM;
EXHIBITS; OPEN TO PUBLIC
Location: WASHINGTON AVE. BETWEEN HAWK AND SWAN STS.
THE CAPITOL
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
SECOND CAPITOL BUILDING
ERECTED BY THE STATE
CORNERSTONE LAID 1871
25 YEARS IN CONSTRUCTION
Location: CAPITOL PARK, EAGLE ST. NR. WASHINGTON AVE.
[ARROW]
1 1/2 MILES
SCHUYLER MANSION
HOME OF GENERAL PHILIP
SCHUYLER. RESIDENCE OF
ALEXANDER HAMILTON IN 1781
AND 1795
Location: CAPITOL PARK, EAGLE ST. NR. WASHINGTON AVE.

County: ALBANY
Town: BERNE, TOWN OF

5 MILES S - E
SITE OF
DIETZ MASSACRE
WHERE JOHANNES DIETZ AND
HIS FAMILY WERE KILLED BY
TORIES AND INDIANS
SEPTEMBER 1781
Location: NYS 43, .5 MI. W. OF BERNE
AX FACTORY
ESTABLISHED BY DANIEL
SIMMONS IN 1825. SAID TO BE
THE FIRST FACTORY IN THE
UNITED STATES TO MAKE
AXES FROM CAST STEEL.
Location: NYS 156, AT BERNE
BEAVER DAM
LATER CALLED BERNVILLE
FORTIFIED DURING THE
REVOLUTION. JOHN DIETZ'.
FAMILY MASSACRED BY INDIANS
Location: NYS 43, .5 MI. E.. OF W. BERNE
CHEESE FACTORY
FIRST IN TOWN OF BERNE
BUILT IN 1878 AND MADE
495 POUNDS IN A SINGLE DAY
Location: NYS 156, AT BERNE
CORPORATION
INN
OPENED 1817 BY
HENRY ENGLE
Location: NYS 43, .5 MI. W. OF BERNE
DWELLING
BUILT ABOUT 1800 BY
WILLIAM SHULTES
Location: NYS 43, AT W. BERNE
EARLY SETTLER
JACOB WEIDMAN, A SWISS,
LOCATED ON FOXENKILL ON
SITE OF BERNE VILLAGE ABOUT
1750. BUILT FIRST SAWMILL
AND GRISTMILL
Location: NW CORNER NYS 43 AND NYS 156 AT BERNE
EAST BERNE
FORMERLY CALLED
WERNER'S MILLS
AND PHILADEPHIA
Location: NYS 43, at E. Berne
FIRST MILL
BUILT 1750 BY JACOB
WEIDMAN STOOD NEAR HERE
Location: NYS 156, AT BERNE
FIRST STORE
STOOD ON THIS SITE
OWNED BY JOHN FISHER
Location: NYS 156, AT BERNE
INDIAN
STOCKADE
BUILT ON SITE
OF BERNE VILLAGE
Location: NYS 43, 1/4 MI. EAST OF BERNE
JUSTICE OF
PEACE
JACOB HOCHSTRASSER
WAS FIRST SUPERVISOR
AND JUSTICE OF PEACE
OF TOWN OF BERNE
Location: NYS 43, AT E. BERNE
M. E. CHURCH
ORGANIZED AT REIDSVILLE
1830 BY REVEREND ROSMAN KELLY
CHURCH REPLACED IN 1841
Location: TOWN RD., AT REIDSVILLE
MILL SITE
FOR CARDING AND FULLING
MILL BUILT AT AN EARLY
DATE BY MALACHI SHIPPLE
WILLIAM H. BALL
AND LYMAN DWIGHT
Location: NYS 156, AT BERNE
PIONEER
COL. JESSE WOOD OF LONG
ISLAND SETTLED HERE ABOUT
1800. SERVED IN WAR OF
1812. DIED JULY 23, 1853
AT AGE OF 83 YEARS
Location: NYS 156, .5 MI. N. OF BERNE
REFORMED
DUTCH CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1763 BY REV. JOHANNES
SCHUYLER OF SCHOHARIE
LOG CHURCH 1765. FRAME 1786
WHICH WAS TAKEN DOWN 1830
Location: NYS 43, AT W. BERNE
REFORMED
DUTCH CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1763, FIRST
PASTOR JOHANNES SCHUYLER
1767. OLDEST CHURCH IN
COUNTY OUTSIDE OF ALBANY
Location: NYS 43, .5 MI. W. OF BERNE
SCHOOLS
IN 1812 THERE WERE 21
SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TOWN
OF BERNE AND 30 THE NEXT
YEAR. IN 1816 THERE WERE
1710 PUPILS IN SCHOOL
Location: NYS 43, .5 MI. W. OF BERNE
SOUTH BERNE
PREVIOUS TO 1828 CALLED
CENTERVILLE BECAUSE IT
WAS EQUI-DISTANT FROM
THREE OF THE OTHER VILLAGES.
Location: CO. RD., AT S. BERNE
TOWN OF BERNE
FORMED MARCH 17, 1795, FROM
RENSSELAERVILLE. TOWN OF
KNOX TAKEN OFF IN 1822.
JACOB WEIDMAN, FIRST
SETTLER ABOUT 1750
Location: NYS 43 AND NYS 85, AT MALLORY CORNERS
WEIDMAN HOME
THE LARGEST HOUSE IN BERNE
WITH TEN FIRPLACES
BUILT BY PETER WEIDMAN
IN 1800, STOOD
ON THIS SITE
Location: NYS 43, AT BERNE
WEST BERNE
CALLED MECHANICSVILLE
1830-34 BECAUSE SO MANY
MECHANICS LIVED THERE.
Location: NYS 43, AT W. BERNE
WILLIS' STORE
ESTABLISHED IN 1800 BY
MAJOR STEPHEN WILLIS STOOD
HERE. HE ALSO HAD A POTASH
FACTORY, TANNERY, WHISKEY
STILL, AND SHOE FACTORY.
Location: NYS 157, .5 MI. NE OF E. BERNE

County: ALBANY
Town: BETHLEHEM, TOWN OF

AGRICULTURAL FAIR
FIRST ANNUAL FAIR OF
ALBANY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY HELD AT BETHLEHEM
CENTER OCT. 4-6, 1853
Location: NYS 32, 100 YDS. W OF US 9W
AGRICULTURAL FAIR
FIRST ANNUAL FAIR OF
ALBANY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY HELD AT BETHELEM
CENTER OCT.4-6,1853
Location: NYS 32, 100 YDS. W OF US 9W
BAKER FARM
SETTLED BY JOAB BAKER
OF CONNECTICUT IN 1791
Location: NYS 144, .5 MI. N. OF SELKIRK
BECKER HOMESTEAD
AT BECKER'S CORNERS
SETTLED BY ALBERTUS BECKER
WHO MARRIED HELEN
VAN DERZEE
Location: NYS 396, N. OF RR BRIDGE
BETHLEHEM CENTER
KNOWN AS BABCOCK
CORNERS ON THE ALBANY
AND BETHLEHEM TURNPIKE
Location: W CORNER, US 9W AND NYS 32
DELMAR
EARLIER ADAMSVILLE AND ADAMS STATION
NATHANIEL ADAMS LOCATED
HERE IN 1836 AND BUILT
A HOTEL IN 1838.
Location: NYS 43, AT DELMAR
TANNERY
BUILT ABOUT 1825 ON
FARM OF ISAAC AND JOHN
COFFIN. OPERATED FOR
MANY YEARS BY ROBERT
CARHART. BURNED 1883
Location: WILLOWBROOK AVE., IN S. BETHLEHEM
TURNPIKE
ALBANY AND DELAWARE
CHARTERED MARCH 2, 1805.
6000 SHARES AT $25.
EXTENSIVELY TRAVELLED ALBANY
TO OTEGO. ABANDONED 1868
Location: NYS 43, W. OF ALBANY CITY LINE
VAN WIE'S DOCK
SITE OF DOCK OWNED BY
PETER G. AND HENRY VAN WIE
AND LEASED FEB. 23, 1835
TO HUDSON RIVER STEAMBOAT
CO. FOR ALBANY TERMINAL
Location: TOWN RD., AT VAN WIE'S POINT
VAN WIE'S HOUSE
BUILT BY HENDRICK VAN WIE
IN 1732. THE HOME OF SIX
GENERATIONS OF THIS DUTCH
COLONIAL FAMILY, SETTLERS
AT FORT ORANGE, IN 1664
Location: TOWN RD., NR. WM. GIBSON'S RD. AT VAN WIE'S POINT
VAN WIE'S POINT
HENDRICK GERRITSE VAN WIE
DUTCH COLONIST IN FORT
ORANGE 1664, BUILT HOUSE
HERE IN 1679
Location: TOWN RD., AT VAN WIE'S POINT
WINNE
FARM
SETTLED BY
FRANCIS WINNE
Location: CO. RD., W. OF ALBANY FILTRATION PLANT

County: ALBANY
Town: COEYMANS, TOWN OF

COEYMANS
TOWN FORMED MARCH 18, 1791
FROM WATERVLIET. A PART WENT
TO FORM WESTERLO IN 1815.
NAMED FROM THE PATENTEE
BARENT PIETERSON COEYMANS
Location: CHURCH AND WESTERLO STS., COEYMANS
COEYMANS GAZETTE
STARTED 1863 BY
THOMAS MCKEE AS
EDITOR. SUCCEEDED
BY COEYMANS HERALD
Location: NYS 144, AT COEYMANS

County: ALBANY
Town: COHOES, CITY OF

CAMP VAN SCHAIK
CONTINENTAL ARMY, NORTHERN
DEPARTMENT UNDER COMMAND
GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER
GENERAL HORATIO GATES
AUG. 15 - SEPT. 8, 1777
Location: SE CORNER MYRTLE AND PARK
CONTINENTAL AVE.
ALGONQUIN AND MOHAWK
INDIAN TRAIL
COLONIAL MILITARY ROUTE
Location: SW CORNER ONTARIO AND CONTINENTAL
EGBERTS AND BAILEY MILL
FIRST BUILDING ERECTED FOR THE
MANUFACTURING OF KNIT GOODS BY
POWER IN AMERICA, 1836. FIRST
POWER KNITTING MACHINERY
APPLIED IN COHOES, 1832
Location: ONTARIO, W. OF REMSEN
FIRST BRIDGE
ACROSS MOHAWK RIVER
OPENED 1795.
900 FT. LONG
24 FT. WIDE, 15 FT. ABOVE
BED OF RIVER ON 13 STONE
PIERS. COST $12,000 DOLLARS
Location: MOHAWK AND REMSEN STS.
HOME OF JAMES
"BUTTERMILK" LANSING
BUILT BY DOUW FONDA BEFORE
1767. ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF
BOGHT SETTLEMENT, COHOES, N.Y.
Location: W. COLUMBIA ST., BETWEEN SUNSET AND ELAINE CTS.
INDIAN SPRING
ALGONQUIN AND MOHAWK INDIANS
COLONIAL MILITARY SPRING 1690
1782, FIRST SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY
FOR THE SETTLERS
OF COHOES
Location: CONTINENTAL AVE., E. OF SCHOOL
JUNCTA
JUNCTION OF THE ORIGINAL
ERIE AND CHAMPLAIN CANALS
FIRST SETTLEMENT AND NAME
COHOES. SITE OF THE
FIRST POST OFFICE
Location: NW CORNER SPRING AND SARATOGA STS.
MANOR AVENUE
THE OLD BOGHT ROAD
NORTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF
THE MANOR OF
RENSSELAERWYCK
1630
Location: N. BAKER AND MANOR AVE.
MILITARY ROAD FROM 1690
THROUGH THE REVOLUTION. USED
BY GENERAL EBENEZER LEARNED ON HIS
WAY TO RELIEVE FORT STANWIX -
AUG. 14, 1777
Location: CONTINENTAL AVE., S. OF SCHOOL
ONE OF THE FIRST CHURCHES
NORTH OF ALBANY 1788
REFORMED CHURCH
OF THE BOGHT
Location: SW CORNER BAKER AVE., AND VLIET BLVD.
SITE OF
COHOES
MASTODON
FOUND SEPTEMBER 1866
NOW IN N. Y. STATE MUSEUM
Location: MOHAWK AND VLIET STS.
VAN SCHAIK
BURIAL PLOT
FIRST SETTLERS OF COHOES
AND OWNERS OF HALF MOON
PATENT BURIED HERE
Location: DELAWARE AVE. BETWEEN ONTARIO AND VAN SCHAICK

County: ALBANY
Town: COLONIE, TOWN OF

1/4 MILE [ARROW]
SHAKERS
SOUTH FAMILY
ONLY SURVIVING FAMILY
OF WATERVLIET COMMUNITY
FIRST BUILDING ERECTED
1800 AND STILL STANDING
Location: NYS 155, W. OF AIRPORT
BOGHT CHURCH
SITE OF THE REFORMED DUTCH
CHURCH OF THE BOGHT
1ST CHURCH NORTH OF ALBANY
ORGANIZED BY THE CLASSIS
OF ALBANY, FEB. 22, 1784
Location: BOGHT RD., E. OF US 9
LOUDEN'S FORD
BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL
ARMY FORD PROTECTED
AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1777
BY GENERALS ENOCH POOR
AND BENEDICT ARNOLD
Location: FONDA RD. AT POWER STATION
OLD LOUDON
ROAD
NAMED AFTER EARL LOUDON
IN 1756. ROUTE OF BRITISH
AND CONTINENTAL ARMIES TO
MONTREAL
Location: US 9, AT BOUGHT CORNERS
SHAKER
CEMENTERY
FIRST BURIAL 1797 AND
EARLIER BURIALS REMOVED
HERE LATER
Location: NYS 155, W. OF AIRPORT
SHAKERS
ANN LEE AND COMPANY CAME
TO AMERICA 1774 AND FOUNDED
HERE IN THE VALLEY OF THE
WILDERNESS THE FIRST SHAKER
COMMUNITY 1776
Location: NYS 155, NR. ALBANY AIRPORT
THE BOGHT
SETTLED 1718-1750 BY
FAMILIES FROM HOLLAND,
AMONG THEM FONDA, LANSING,
LIEVERSE, ROFF, STAATS,
VAN DENBERGH, VISSCHER, ETC.
Location: US 9, AT BOGHT CORNERS
[ARROW]
SHAKERS
WEST FAMILY
AT FIRST KNOWN AS
THE SECOND FAMILY
OCCUPIED BY SHAKERS
1810-1915
Location: NYS 155, W. OF AIRPORT
[ARROW] 1/2 MILE
SHAKERS
NORTH FAMILY
OCCUPIED BY SHAKERS
- 1919
PRINCIPAL BUILDING YET
STANDING RECONSTRUCTED
Location: SHAKER RD., NR. CO. JAIL

County: ALBANY
Town: GUILDERLAND, TOWN OF

100 FT. W.
SITE OF FIRST REFORMED
DUTCH CHURCH
IN GUILDERLAND
BEFORE 1767. FIRST PASTOR
REV. HARMANUS VAN HUYSEN
Location: NYS 146, W. OF NYS 158
ABOUT 1750
FREDERICK CROUNSE
SON OF POLISH NOBLEMAN
SETTLED HERE
FARM OWNED BY CROUNSE
FAMILY TO PRESENT 1934
Location: NYS 156, S. OF ALTAMONT
ABRAHAM WEMPLE
COL. SCHENECTADY MILITIA
DURING AMERICAN REVOLUTION
OWNED FARM HERE 1765 TO
DEATH IN 1799. BURIED ON
HIGH KNOLL ABOVE RESERVOIR
Location: US 20, W. OF RR BRIDGE
ALTAMONT
INCORPORATED AS A VILLAGE
1890 OFFICERS: PRESIDENT
HIRAM GRIGGS. TRUSTEES - SMITH
PHILLEY, JESSE CROUNSE
HENRY A. WILBUR
Location: WESTERN AVE., AT FIRE HOUSE IN ALTAMONT
BATTLE OF NORMANSKILL
FOUGHT NORTH OF THE CREEK
SCHENECTADY MILITIA WITH
40 RHODE ISLAND TROOPS
DISPERSED LARGE GROUP OF
TORIES ON AUGUST 11, 1777
Location: NYS 146, 2 MIS. W. OF GUILDERLAND
CASE HOMESTEAD
BUILT AS TAVERN BY
RUSSELL CASE AT THE
OPENING OF GREAT
WESTERN TURNPIKE, 1799
Location: US 20, E. OF GUILDERLAND
DR. F. CROUNSE
BUILT THIS HOUSE 1833
FIRST PHYSICIAN AT
WEST GUILDERLAND (ALTAMONT)
PRACTISED HERE SIXTY YEARS
Location: DUNNSVILL RD. - NEAR INTERSECTION OF GUN CLUB RD..
FARM AND
BURIAL PLACE
JOHN GROOT
OFFICER 3D REGIMENT
ALBANY COUNTY MILITIA
WAR OF REVOLUTION
Location: NYS 397, N. OF ALTAMONT
FARM OF
FREDERICK CROUNSE
OFFICER 3D ALBANY CO. MILITIA
IN REVOLUTION. CARRIED FOOD
TO ARMY BATTLE OF SARATOGA
BURIED HERE
Location: NYS 156, 1 MI. S. OF ALTAMONT
FARM OF EVERT BANCKER
THIRD MAYOR OF ALBANY, 1695
INDIAN COMMISSIONER, 1696
MASTER CHANCERY, 1705
DIED HERE, 1734
Location: NYS 146, .5 MI FROM US 20
FARM OF WALTER VORMAN
CAPT. SCHENECTADY MILITIA
DURING AMERICAN REVOLUTION
CAPTURED BY TORY FORCE
SOUTH OF ONEIDA LAKE; HELD
PRISONER IN CANADA 1780-82
Location: NYS 158, S. OF US 20
FIRST MEETING
OF TOWN OF GUILDERLAND
HELD APRIL 5, 1803 IN THIS
HOUSE, AT THE TIME A
TAVERN CONDUCTED
BY HENDRICK APPLE
Location: NYS 146, 1 MI. W. OF GUILDERLAND CENTER
FREEMAN HOUSE
SAID TO HAVE BEEN ERECTED
1734. LATER THE HOME OF BARENT
MYNDERSE, LIEUT. IN WAR OF REV.
Location: NYS 146, AT GUILDERLAND CENTER
FRENCH'S MILLS
SITE OF EARLY SAWMILL;
CLOTHES WORKS OF PETER K.
BROEK 1795; FACTORY OF
ABEL FRENCH 1800;
TAVERN OF JACOB AKER 1800
Location: NYS 146, AT GUILDERLAND CENTER
GLASS WORKS, 1785-1815
MADE BOTTLE AND WINDOW
GLASS. STARTED HERE BY
LEONARD DE NEUFVILLE. LATER
CALLED ALBANY GLASS HOUSE,
THEN HAMILTON GLASS WORKS
Location: US 20, AT GUILDERLAND
HOME OF
GEORGE WAGNER
LIEUTENANT IN THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: NYS 397, S OF DUNNSVILLE
HOME OF
HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT
B. 1793 - D. 1864
GLASS MAKER, EXPLORER, AUTHOR,
POET, AUTHORITY ON
AMERICAN INDIANS
Location: WILLOW ST., IN GUILDERLAND
HOUSE BUILT 1802
BY NICHOLAS V. MYNDERSE
SOLD TO MICHAEL FREDERICK
WHO RAN IT AS A TAVERN FOR
MANY YEARS
Location: NYS 146, AT GUILDERLAND CENTER
INN OF GEORGE SEVERSON
OLD SCHOHARIE ROAD
BUILT AT CLOSE OF REVOLUTION
FIRST POST OFFICE OF
WEST GUILDERLAND AS
THIS PLACE WAS THEN CALLED
Location: ALTAMONT BLVD. AND HELDERBERG AVE., IN ALTAMONT
INN OF JACOB CROUNSE
BUILT 1833. MIDWAY TAVERN
WHERE HORSES WERE CHANGED ON
SCHOHARIE-ALBANY
STAGE COACH ROUTE
Location: NYS 146, E. OF ALTAMONT
JACOB VAN AERNAM (1723-1813)
CAPT. 3RD ALBANY REGIMENT
LEADER OF PATRIOT FORCES
IN THE HELDERBERGH REGION
DURING AMERICAN REVOLUTION
LIVED ON FARM HERE
Location: NYS 156 BETWEEN ALTAMONT AND VORHEESVILLE
KNOWER HOUSE
EST. AS HAT FACTORY ABOUT 1800
BY BENJAMIN KNOWER
GOV. WILLIAM L. MARCY
MARRIED CORNELIA KNOWER
IN THIS HOUSE
Location: NYS 146, E. OF ALTAMONT
OLD HELLEBERGH
LAND OF BITTER CONFLICT
BETWEEN PATRIOT AND TORY
KNOWN LATER AS
WEST GUILDERLAND,
KNOWERSVILLE, AND ALTAMONT
Location: MAIN ST. AND MAPLE AVE., IN ALTAMONT
OLD PLANK ROAD
SCHOHARIE TO ALBANY
FOLLOWED THIS ROUTE
CHARTERED 1849
ABANDONED 1867
Location: MAIN ST. AND BRANDLE RD., IN ALTAMONT
ON THIS SPOT STOOD THE
FIRST
LUTHERAN CHURCH
IN TOWN OF GUILDERLAND
1787 REV. HEINRICH MOELLER
FIRST REGULAR PASTOR
Location: NYS 146, 2 MIS. E. OF ALTAMONT
RED MEN'S HALL
FORMERLY USED AS BAPTIST
CHURCH, 1850-66; CATHOLIC
CHURCH; TEMPERANCE HALL
Location: US 20, E. OF GUILDERLAND
SEVERSON HOUSE
BUILT BY EARLY SETTLER
JURRIAN SEVERSON
LOCATED ON MAP OF WEST MANOR
RENSSELAERWYCK, 1767
Location: NYS 146 AT ALTAMONT
SITE OF
INDIAN VILLAGE
NEIGHBORING STREAM CALLED
WILDEHAUSE KILL
OR INDIAN HOUSE CREEK
Location: N. OF US 20 AT DUNNSVILLE
SITE OF
HAMILTON UNION CHURCH
OCTAGONAL BUILDING USED
ALSO AS A SCHOOL HOUSE
BUILT BY HAMILTON MFG.
SOCIETY ABOUT 1797
Location: US 20, AT GUILDERLAND
SITE OF
FIRST INN
AND STORE
KEPT IN DUNNSVILLE
BY JOHN E. WINNE
1800-1830
Location: US 20 AT DUNNSVILLE
SITE OF
TOLL GATE
NUMBER TWO ON WESTERN
TURNPIKE. ROAD PLANKED IN
1849. THIS GATE MAINTAINED
UNTIL 1906
Location: US 20, 2 MIS. E. OF GUILDERLAND
SITE OF HOUSE
OF DR. JONATHAN JOHNSON
FIRST PHYSICIAN IN
DUNNSVILLE WHO CAME
HERE ON HORSEBACK IN 1808
SURGEON IN WAR OF 1812
Location: US 20 AT DUNNSVILLE
THE
VALE
OF
TAWASENTHA
Location: NYS 146, 3/4 MI. W. OF GUILDERLAND
TOWN OF GUILDERLAND
ESTABLISHED APRIL 4, 1803
FROM PART OF WATERVLIET
FIRST OFFICERS, SUPERVISOR,
NICHOLAS V. MYNDERSE, TOWN
CLERK, PETER G. VEEDER
Location: NYS 146, AND NYS 158 AT OSBORN'S CORNERS

County: ALBANY
Town: KNOX, TOWN OF

ALBANY COUNTY
DERIVED ITS NAME FROM
THE SCOTCH TITLE OF THE
DUKE OF YORK AND ALBANY
AFTERWARDS KING JAMES II
OF ENGLAND
Location: NYS 43, W. OF W. BERNE AT ALBANY - SCHOHARIE CO. LINE
ANTI-RENT RIOTS
MORE LEASED LAND IN BERNE
THAN ANY OTHER TOWN IN
ALBANY COUNTY LED TO
SERIOUS OUTBREAKS
AFTER 1840
Location: NYS 157 A, 3 MIS. N. OF EAST BERNE
KNOXVILLE ACADEMY
INCORPORATED 1837 CHARTERED
REGENTS 1842-1869 FACED
MILITARY TRAINING GROUND 1776
Location: NYS 156, AT KNOX
SAND FARM
SETTLED BY
CHRISTIAN ZANDT
IN 1787
Location: NYS 156, 1 MI. W. OF KNOX
WHIPPLE FARM
SETTLED BY MALACHI
WHIPPLE OF CONN. ABOUT
1793. IN 1820 FARM WON
PREMIUM AS MODEL
FARM IN ALBANY COUNTY
Location: NYS 156, W. OF ALTAMONT

County: ALBANY
Town: NEW SCOTLAND, TOWN OF

CLARKSVILLE
A HALFWAY STATION LOCATED
ON ALBANY AND DELAWARE
TURNPIKE NAMED FROM ADAM
A. CLARK WHO SETTLED
HERE IN 1822
Location: NYS 43, AT CLARKSVILLE
EARLY MISSION
FOUNDED 1787 BY
SUFFOLK PRESBYTERY
INCORPORATED 1789
FIRST CHURCH 1791
ORIGINAL FRAME STANDING
Location: NYS 85, AT NEW SCOTLAND
HELDERBERGS
THE NAME MEANS CLEAR
MOUNTAINS. THEY HAVE BEEN
CALLED "THE KEY TO THE
GEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA"
Location: NYS 157, AT J.B. THATCHER PARK
METHODISM
HERE BUILT ITS FIRST CHURCH
IN THIS ENTIRE AREA
KNOWN AS BETHLEHEM, NORTH
OF BLACK CREEK CHURCH, 1823
Location: NYS 156, W. OF VORHEESVILLE
NEW SCOTLAND
TOWNFORMED APRIL 25, 1832
FROM BETHLEHEM. SCOTCH
NAMES APPEAR AMONG EARLY
SETTLERS. FIRST TOWN MEETING
APRIL 9, 1833
Location: NYS 85, AT NEW SCOTLAND
SLINGERLAND
HOUSE 1762
BUILT BY TUNIS CORNELISE
SLINGERLAND, DUTCH
EMIGRANT 1650, ON LAND
PURCHASED FROM INDIANS
Location: NYS 32, 3 MIS. S. OF FEURA BUSH
TORY CAVE 1777
JACOB SALSBURY, A SPY
DURING BURGOYNE INVASION,
FOUND REFUGE FROM SETTLERS
IN A CAVE AGAINST
THE CLIFFS NEARBY
Location: N. OF NYS 157, AT TRAIL, IN J.B. THATCHER PARK

County: ALBANY
Town: RENSSELAERVILLE, TOWN OF

ALBANY COUNTY
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK CREATED
BY LAW NOVEMBER 1, 1683.
MOTHER OF MANY COUNTIES
Location: NYS 145, NW OF PRESTON HOLLOW AT ALBANY-SCHOHARIE CO. LINE
ALBANY COUNTY
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK CREATED
BY LAW NOVEMBER 1, 1683.
MOTHER OF MANY COUNTIES
Location: NYS 145 S. OF COOKSBURG AT ALBANY-GREENE CO. LINE
ALBANY COUNTY
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK CREATED
BY LAW NOVEMBER 1, 1683.
MOTHER OF MANY COUNTIES
Location: NYS 81, E. OF COOKSBURG, AT ALBANY-GREENE CO. LINE
DISTRICTS
MANOR OF RENSSELAERSWYCK
CREATED A DISTRICT
IN 1772 AND SUBDIVIDED
INTO EAST AND WEST
DISTRICTS IN 1779
Location: NYS 85, 1.5 MIS. NE OF RENSSELAERVILLE
DR. SAMUEL PRESTON
SETTLED HERE IN 1789 AND
GAVE HIS NAME TO PRESTON
HOLLOW. HE BUILT THE FIRST
SAWMILL AND GRISTMILL.
Location: NYS 145, AT PRESTON HOLLOW
INDIAN TRAIL
RAN FROM CATSKILL TO
SCHOHARIE VALLEY ALONG
THIS STEAM THROUGH PRESTON
HOLLOW AND LIVINGSTONVILLE
Location: NYS 81 AT COOKSBURG
PIONEER
JOSEPH BURCHARD SETTLED
HERE IN 1789. PRESIDENT
R.B. HAYES WAS RELATED
TO THIS FAMILY
Location: NYS 145, 1.5 MIS. NW OF PRESTON HOLLOW
TURNPIKE
SCHOHARIE TO ATHENS
CHARTERED IN 1802 AND
MUCH USED IN EARLY DAYS
Location: NYS 81 AND 145, AT COOKSBURG
WHIPPING POST
FOR TOWN LOCATED ON FARM
OF LAWRENCE FAULK WHO
SETTLED HERE IN 1790,
AND DIED IN 1838
Location: NYS 145, NW OF PRESTON HOLLOW

County: ALBANY
Town: WESTERLO, TOWN OF

ACADEMY
THIS HOUSE WAS THE
CHESTERVILLE ACADEMY
BUILT ABOUT 1800
GABRIEL PINNEY
HEAD MASTER
Location: NYS 143, N. OF WESTERLO
ALBANY COUNTY
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK CREATED
BY LAW NOVEMBER 1, 1683.
MOTHER OF MANY COUNTIES
Location: NYS 32 AT ALBANY-GREENE CO. LINE
ALLEN HOUSE
BUILT 1795, HERE AND ON
THIS ROAD LIVED EBENEAZER
ALLEN AND HIS SONS JUSTICE,
HOWARD AND STEPHEN. ALL
SOLDIERS IN REVOLUTION.
Location: CO. RD.,1 MI. W. OF BASIC CREEK RESERVOIR
ANTI-RENT WAR
EVENTS IN THE QUARREL OF
TENANTS WITH LORD OF THE
VAN RENSSELAER MANOR
OCCURRED IN THIS REGION
IN 1840 AND LATER
Location: NYS 85, AT SNYDER'S CORNERS
BAPTIST CHURCH
ORGANIZED AT CHESTERVILLE
1800. ROSWELL BECKWITH
WAS THE FIRST PASTOR
Location: NYS 143, AT WESTERLO
BEARDSLEY HOUSE
HOME OF WILLIAM BEARDSLEY
HERE WAS HELD FIRST TOWN
MEETING OF WESTERLO
APRIL 4, 1815
Location: CO. RD., W. OF WESTERLO
DORMANSVILLE
NAMED IN HONOR OF DANIEL
DORMAN, AN INN AND STORE
KEEPER, AND FIRST POST-
MASTER IN 1832
Location: NYS 32 AND NYS 143 AT DORMANSVILLE
EARLY DOCTOR
DR. JONATHAN PROSSER OF
DUTCHESS COUNTY SETTLED
ON THIS FARM IN 1788
Location: NYS 32, 1.MI.S. OF DORMANSVILLE
GRANT AND EADIE
EARLY STOREKEEPERS
MADE POTASH AT
CHESTERVILLE, 1798
Location: NYS 143, AT WESTERLO
INDIAN TRAIL
OLD INDIAN TRAIL LED
THROUGH THIS VALLEY TO
THE SWITZKILL, INDIAN
CAMP GROUND NEAR HERE
Location: CO. RD., W. OF WESTERLO
MANOR OF
VAN RENSSELAER
1630 KILIAEN VAN RENSSELAER
GRANTED PATENT FOR 1152
SQUARE MILES INCLUDING ALL
OF ALBANY AND RENSSELAER
COUNTIES
Location: NYS 143, AT WESTERLO
MYERS FARM
PHILIP MYERS OF GERMANY
IN 1763 BUILT A LOG HOUSE
AT CHESTERVILLE, MARRIED A
DAUGHTER OF NICHOLAS
STODDARD AND DIED 1813
Location: CO. RD., S. OF NYS 143, AT WESTERLO
NEAR HERE
ANDREW HANNAY
RAISED A COMPANY OF
VOLUNTEERS OCTOBER 1777
TO OPPOSE INVASION OF
BURGOYNE, WHO SURRENDERED
BEFORE THEIR ARRIVAL
Location: NYS 32 AND NYS 143 AT DORMANSVILLE
QUAKER CHURCH
SITE OF A QUAKER CHURCH
AND SCHOOL. ERECTED 1803
CEMETERY IN REAR
Location: CO. RD., NR. SMITH'S CORNERS
REFORMED CHURCH
FIRST CHURCH IN TOWN.
ORGANIZED 1793. ORIGINAL
SITE FIVE MILES SOUTH
OF HERE
Location: NYS 143, E. OF WESTERLO
SNYDER CEMETERY
CONTAINS THE UNMARKED
GRAVES OF SEVERAL
SOLDIERS OF THE
REVOLUTION
Location: CO. RD., 1.5 MIS. S. OF SNYDER'S CORNERS
SOUTH WESTERLO
NAME CHANGED IN 1827 FROM
SMITH'S MILLS NAMED AFTER
DAVID SMITH WHO ALSO OWNED
A TANNERY AND ASHERY
Location: CO. RD., AT S. WESTERLO
TEMPERANCE
SOCIETY
ORGANIZED IN SCHOOL
HOUSE NEAR CHESTERVILLE
IN 1828
DEACON HOLMES PRESIDED
Location: NYS 143, AT WESTERLO
VAN LEUVAN'S
CORNERS
NAMED AFTER ISAAC VAN LEUVAN.
EARLIER KNOWN AS SACKETT'S
CORNERS AND THEN
PRESTON'S CORNERS
Location: CO. RD.,.5 MIS. S. OF SNYDER'S CORNERS
WESTERLO
TOWN FORMED MARCH 16, 1815
FROM COEYMANS AND
RENSSELAERVILLE. NAMED FOR
REV. EILARDUS WESTERLO
OF ALBANY
Location: NYS 143, AT WESTERLO

County: ALLEGANY
Town: ALMA, TOWN OF

TRIANGLE NO. 1
FIRST OIL WELL DRILLED
IN ALLEGANY COUNTY
DRILLED BY
O.P. TAYLOR
1879
Location: ON TOWN ROAD ABOUT 1/4 MI. SOUTHWEST OF PETROLIA

County: ALLEGANY
Town: ANGELICA, TOWN OF

SITE GIFT OF CHURCH FAMILY, 1801;
FIRST BURIAL, 1803; AMONG NOTED
MEN OF ALLEGANY CO. BURIED HERE
ARE; MAJOR M. VAN CAMPEN, CAPT.
P. CHURCH, JUDGE M. GROVER AND
REV. C. FAIRBANK
Location: ONE MILE FROM CENTER OF VILLAGE. ONE EAST MAIN STREET

County: ALLEGANY
Town: BURNS, TOWN OF

FIRST HOUSE
IN CANASERAGA
BUILT ON THIS SITE
BY SAMUEL BOYLAN
IN 1806
Location: ON MILL STREET IN CANASERAGA
SITE OF
FIRST
SCHOOL HOUSE
IN TOWN OF BURNS
ERECTED 1810
DAVID CROOK, FIRST TEACHER
Location: ON NYS 70 ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF CANASERAGA

County: ALLEGANY
Town: CUBA, TOWN OF

CUBA LAKE
SUMMIT LEVEL FEEDER FOR
OLD GENESEE VALLEY CANAL,
FORMED, 1856, BY BUILDING
A 60 FOOT DAM ACROSS THE
STREAM CALLED OIL CREEK
Location: ON NYS 305 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF VILLAGE OF CUBA

County: ALLEGANY
Town: HUME, TOWN OF

JOCKEY STREET
ONCE FAMOUS RENDEZVOUS FOR
GENESEE VALLEY CANAL BOAT-
MEN. NOW KNOWN AS HOME OF
HOUGHTON COLLEGE
Location: VILLAGE OF HOUGHTON

County: ALLEGANY
Town: WILLING, TOWN OF

FIRST
TOWN MEETING
TOWN OF WILLING HELD
AT HOME OF HIRAM YORK
MARCH 2, 1852
Location: NORTHWEST OF INTERSECTION OF ROUTE #'S 19 AND 29

County: BRONX
Town: NONE

BRONX RIVER
DURING THE REVOLUTION, THE
BRITISH FLEET WAS ORDERED
TO "PROCEED UP THE BRONX
AND ATTACK THE YANKEES
IN HIDING ABOVE."
Location: BRONX RIVER, AT BOSTON RD. BRIDGE, IN BRONX PARK
CITY ISLAND
"PEARL OF THE SOUND", WAS
SO CALLED, BECAUSE IT WAS
PLANNED TO OUTSTRIP NEW
YORK CITY. OYSTER CULTURE
FIRST STARTED HERE.
Location: CITY ISLAND PARK
DRAKE PARK
CONTAINS GRAVE OF JOSPEH
RODMAN DRAKE, POET, AUTHOR
OF "THE CULPRIT FAY", "ODE
TO THE AMERICAN FLAG", AND
"BRONX".
Location: JOSEPH RODMAN DAKE PARK, HUNT'S POINT AVE.
FEATHERBED LANE
SO CALLED FROM STORY THAT
FARMERS' WIVES, IN 1776,
AIDED AMERICANS TO ESCAPE
BRITISH BY SPREADING
FEATHERBEDS ON THE LANE
Location: PARK TRIANGLE AT FEATHERBED LANE
FORDING PLACE
EARLY CROSSING OF BRONX
RIVER, NEARBY WAS BEAR
SWAMP, HAUNT OF BEARS.
SITE OF SEWANOE INDIAN
VILLAGE UP TO 1689.
Location: WEST SIDE OF LAKE IN BRONX RIVER, OPPOSITE ZOOLOGICAL SEC., 1/3 MI. NORTH OF ENTRANCE
FORT INDEPENDENCE
ONE OF FORTS BUILT IN 1776
BY AMERICANS TO COMMAND THE
VALLEY BELOW. GENERAL
RICHARD MONTGOMERY HAD A
FARM NEARBY, IN 1772.
Location: CLAFLIN TER. ON WALK EAST OF RESERVOIR OPPOSITE FORT INDEPENDENCE AVE.
FORT NUMBER FOUR
ONE OF THE CHAIN OF FORTS
BUILT BY THE AMERICANS IN
1776, TO COMMAND THE VALLEY
OF THE HARLEM RIVER; LATER
OCCUPIED BY THE BRITISH
Location: CLAFLIN TER. EAST OF SEDGWICK AVE., WEST OF JEROME PARK RESERVOIR
GLOVER'S ROCK
IN BATTLE OF PELL'S POINT,
COL. GLOVER AND 550 MEN,
HELD BRITISH LONG ENOUGH
FOR WASHINGTON'S ARMY TO
ESCAPE TO WHITE PLAINS
Location: ON ROAD TO CITY ISLAND NEAR TABLET OFF ROAD
HUNTER'S ISLAND
CONTAINS THE HUNTER-ISELIN
MANSION; OGDEN MANSION ON
TWIN ISLAND; INDIAN NAME
"LAAPAWACHKING", - "PLACE
OF STRINGING BEADS".
Location: HUNTER'S ISLAND AT ENTRANCE FROM HIGHWAY
JONAS BRONCK
FIRST SETTLER IN THE BRONX,
1639, BUILT HOUSE EAST OF
THIS PARK, WHERE WAS SIGNED
TREATY BETWEEN DUTCH AND
WECKQUAESKEEK INDIANS, 1642.
Location: PULASKI PARK
LYDIG'S MILL
BUILT IN 18TH CENTURY, STOOD
HERE. NORTH WAS JOHNSON'S
TAVERN, WHERE STAGE COACHES,
NEW YORK TO BOSTON, STOPPED
TO CHANGE HORSES.
Location: BRONX RIVER, ABOUT OPPOSITE ENTRANCE TO NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
MACOMB'S DAM
BRIDGE IS ON SITE OF OLD
DAM WHICH MADE POND OF
HARLEM RIVER. DAM BECAME
NUISANCE AND WAS TORN
DOWN BY CITIZENS IN 1840.
Location: MACOMB'S DAM PARK
OLD INDIAN PATH
LATER KNOWN AS THE
SPLIT ROCK ROAD
ERECTED BY THE PARK DEPT.
CITY OF NEW YORK
OCTOBER 18, 1938
Location: BET. PELHAM BAY PARK ON SPLIT ROCK ROAD, AND BET. PELHAM MANOR AND PELHAM R
PARADE GROUND
HERE WAS THE BOUWERIE OR
FARM OF ADRIAN VAN DER DONCK,
SECURED BY PURCHASE FROM INDIANS
AND GRANT BY GOVERNOR KIEFT, 1650.
Location: ON BRAODWAY, WEST SIDE OF PARADE GROUND VAN CORTLAND PARK
PELL ESTATE
THOMAS PELL OF FAIRFIELD,
CONN., UNDER TREE KNOWN AS
TREATY OAK, BOUGHT PELHAM
MANOR FROM THE SACHEMS
ANNHOOCK AND MAMINEPOE
Location: PELHAM BAY PARK
POE COTTAGE
EDGAR ALLAN POE LIVED HERE
1846-49 AND WROTE MANY OF
HIS POEMS "ANNABEL LEE",
"ULALUME, AND OTHERS. HIS
WIFE, VIRGINIA, DIED HERE.
Location: ON GRAND CONCOURSE BRONX
SCREVEN'S POINT
SEWANOE INDIANS HAD CASTLE
HERE, SEEN BY ADRIAN BLOCK
ON HIS VOYAGE, 1614. LOYALIST
CLERGYMEN, INCLUDING SAMUEL
SEABURY, HID IN FARMHOUSE.
Location: SMALL PARK AT END OF CASTLE HILL AVE.
SITE OF WEST CHESTER TOWN
PRESCOTT BRYANT REPULSED
BRITISH AT CAUSEWAY OVER
WEST CHESTER CREEK
WESTCHESTER "LEXINGTON"
Location: TARRYTOWN
SPLIT ROCK
NEAR HERE WAS HOME OF
ANNE HUTCHINSON, WHO
SETTLED IN 1642. SHE AND
HER FAMILY WERE KILLED IN
THE INDIAN UPRISING, 1662
Location: AT SPLIT ROCK, PELHAM BAY PARK
ST. ANN'S SHRINE
HERE RESTS LEWIS MORRIS, "SIGNER"
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE;
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, "PENMAN"
CONSTITUTION OF U.S.A.; JUDGE
R.H. MORRIS, MAYOR OF NEW YORK
Location: NEW YORK CITY
THROGG'S NECK
NAMED FOR THROCKMORTON, WHO
SETTLED HERE IN 1642. ONE
OF HIS COMPANIONS WAS
ROGER WILLIAMS, FOUNDER
OF RHODE ISLAND.
Location: THROGG'S POINT PARK
VAN CORTLANDT
MANSION BUILT IN 1748 BY
FREDERICK VAN CORTLANDT.
HESSIAN HEADQUARTERS IN
REVOLUTION. WASHINGTON AND
ROCHAMBEAU WERE HERE.
Location: IN FRONT OF VAN CORTLAND MANSION, VAN CORTLANDT PARK
VAN CORTLANDT MILL
SITE OF GRIST AND SAW MILL
OF VAN CORTLANDT FAMILY.
USED OVER 200 YEARS, BURNED
IN 1901. ONE OF THE MILLSTONES
IS WEST OF THE MANSION
Location: ON BROOK, NEAR DAM, EAST OF VAN CORTLANDT MANSION
VAN DER DONCK
ADRIAN VAN DER DONCK,
FIRST SETTLER HERE, 1650
BUILT HOUSE, LATER BURNED
BY INDIANS. ORIGINAL SITE
OF VAN CORTLANDT HOUSE.
Location: EAST OF VAN CORTLANDT MANSION, BETWEEN IT AND DAM.
VAULT HILL
BURIAL VAULT OF THE VAN
CORTLANDT FAMILY, WHERE
AUGUSTUS VAN CORTLANDT,
CITY CLERK, HID NEW YORK
RECORDS DURING REVOLUTION
Location: ON EAST HILL OF PARADE GROUND, NORTH OF RAILROAD UNDERPASS, IN VAN CORTLAND PARK

County: BROOME
Town: CHENANGO, TOWN OF

INDIAN CASTLE
LOCATED NEAR JUNCTION OF
CASTLE CREEK WITH CHENANGO
RIVER. CALLED OTSININGO.
DESTROYED AUG. 18, 1779
DURING SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN.
Location: ON US 11 AND NYS 12 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF BINGHAMTON

County: BROOME
Town: DICKINSON, TOWN OF

FIRST COURT
IN THIS SECTION
WAS HELD HERE IN 1791
UNDER ELM TREE
Location: ON US 11 AND NYS 12 ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF BINGHAMTON

County: BROOME
Town: WINDSOR, TOWN OF

SAGE CREEK
NAMED FOR SETH SAGE,
1748-1822, CAPTAIN
IN THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF WINDSOR

County: CATTARAUGUS
Town: ELLICOTTVILLE, TOWN OF

FIRST
FRAME HOUSE
IN ELLICOTTVILLE, 1817
EARLY COURTS OF COUNTY AND
MEETINGS OF BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS HELD HERE.
Location: IN ELLICOTTVILLE SO. SIDE WASHINGTON ST., BETWEEN JEFFERSON AND MADISON STS

County: CATTARAUGUS
Town: HINSDALE, TOWN OF

SENECA OIL
SPRING
1627 FIRST PETROLEUM
DISCOVERED IN AMERICA
1 MI. NORTH 1000 YDS EAST
Location: ON NYS 408 AT CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY COUNTY LINE

County: CATTARAUGUS
Town: YORKSHIRE, TOWN OF

FIRST
FRAME HOUSE
IN TOWN OF YORKSHIRE
BUILT IN 1820 BY
ISAAC WILLIAMS
OPENED AS TAVERN 1822
Location: ON NYS 39 AT YORKSHIRE IN YARD OF ELKHORN INN
SAW MILL AND
GRIST MILL
FIRST IN TOWN OF
YORKSHIRE. BUILT 1814 BY
ISAAC WILLIAMS
Location: ON NYS 16 AT YORKSHIRE NEW OLEAN ROAD

County: CAYUGA
Town: AUBURN, CITY OF

AUBURN PRISON
ERECTION COMMENCED 1816
FIRST PRISONERS 1817
ASSISTED IN CONSTRUCTION
FIRST ELECTROCUTION
IN THE WORLD 1890
Location: IN FRONT OF PRISON WEST SIDE OF STATE ST.
AUBURN PRISON
CONVICTS MADE SEWING SILK
1841-1846
HERE WAS PRINCIPAL CASH
MARKET IN U.S. FOR
COCOONS AND RAW SILK
Location: IN FRONT OF PRISON WEST SIDE OF STATE ST.
CALVARY PRES. CHURCH
OLDEST CHURCH EDIFICE
IN AUBURN. ERECTED 1815-17
AT FRANKLIN AND NORTH STS.
AS FIRST PRES. CHURCH
MOVED HERE 1869
Location: COR. CAPITOL AND FRANKLIN STS. IN FRONT OF CHURCH
CAYUGA COUNTY COURT HOUSE
FRAME BUILDING ERECTED ON
REAR OF THIS LOT 1809
PRESENT BUILDING
ERECTED 1836
RECONSTRUCTED 1922-24
Location: ON COURT HOUSE GREEN, GENESEE ST.
CENTER HOUSE
TAVERN 1805. LAW OFFICE OF
GOV. ENOS THROOP
1ST PRES. CHURCH ORG. 1810
1ST WHITE S.S. 1819
REMOVED TO FULTON ST. 1829
Location: AT INTERSECTION GENESEE AND MARKET STS.
CENTER HOUSE
EARLY TAVERN ERECTED 1805
AT GENESEE AND MARKET STS.
MOVED HERE 1829
Location: NOW ON 2ND STORY FACE SO. SIDE BLOCK GENESEE AND MARKET STS.
DURING THE
WAR OF 1812
BARRACKS WERE ESTABLISHED
IN THIS LOCALITY
TROOPS PASSING TO AND
FROM NIAGARA CAMPED HERE
Location: NORTH SIDE W. GENESEE ST.
FIRST
FREIGHT DEPOT
AUBURN AND SYRACUSE R.R.
BUILT BY C. W. POMEROY, 1836
BUILDING USED LATER
AS GENESEE OPERA HOUSE
Location: ON 2ND STORY FACE SCHRECK BROS. STORE, 16 E. GENESEE ST.
FIRST SCHOOL
IN VICINITY OF AUBURN
ERECTED BEFORE 1796
ORIGINALLY ON GENESEE ST.
AND DUNNING AVE.
MOVED HERE 1818
Location: WEST SIDE OF DUNNING AVE.
FIRST TAVERN AND STORE
OPENED IN A LOG CABIN
BUILT BY
SAMUEL BRISTOL
1796
Location: ON FACE AUBURN TRUST CO. GENESEE ST. SIDE
FORT HILL
OF MOUNDBUILDER ORIGIN
LATER CAYUGA COUNCIL SEAT
AND VILLAGE FORT WASCO
TRADITIONAL BIRTHPLACE
OF CHIEF LOGAN
Location: AT ENTRANCE FT. HILL CEMETERY SO. SIDE FORT ST.
FRANCIS HUNTER
ERECTED TAVERN HERE 1808
UNDER NEARBY ELM
COUNCILS WERE HELD
BETWEEN WHITE SETTLERS
AND INDIANS
Location: NO. SIDE E. GENESEE ST.
HOME OF
HARRIET TUBMAN
"THE MOSES OF HER RACE"
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
STATION IN SLAVERY DAYS
Location: EAST SIDE SOUTH ST. AT CITY LINE
HOUSE BUILT 1802 BY
JEHIEL CLARK WHO HERE
FOUNDED CLARKSVILLE 1795
HIS GRIST, SAW AND
CARDING MILLS WERE NEARBY
ALONG OWASCO RIVER
Location: W. SIDE COR. AURELIUS AVE. AND CLARK ST.
JOHN HUGGINS
HERE MADE FIRST SETTLEMENT
ON GENESEE TURNPIKE BETWEEN
ELBRIDGE AND CAYUGA FERRY
IN 1791. HIS SON ZENAS
BUILT THIS TAVERN 1804
Location: N. SIDE W. GENESEE ST. BETWEEN CRANE BROOK AND CITY LIMITS
MILITARY DEPOT CAMP
DURING CIVIL WAR
Location: AT COR. CAMP ST. AND LAKE AVE.
NORTH STREET CEMETERY
MOST OF THE SETTLERS OF
HARDENBERGH'S CORNERS
AND EARLY INHABITANTS OF
AUBURN AND BURIED HERE
MAIN CEMETERY UNTIL 1852
Location: IN FRONT OF CEMETERY NORTH ST.
ON THIS SITE THE
BANK OF AUBURN
FIRST BANK IN AUBURN AND
PREDECESSOR OF NAT. BANK
OF AUBURN WAS OPENED 1817
IN DEMAREE'S TAVERN
Location: ON WALL OF NATIONAL HOTEL NEAR ENTRANCE
OSBORNE WORKS
DAVID M. OSBORNE, CYRUS C.
DENNIS AND CHAS. P. WOOD
MAKERS OF KIRBY REAPER
AND OTHER FARM MACHINERY
ORIGINAL FACTORY 1858
Location: ON 2ND STORY FACE OLD OSBORNE OFFICES N. SIDE COR. GENESEE AND OSBORNE STS.
PIONEER ROADS
OLD GENESEE ROAD 1791
NEW GENESEE ROAD 1797
OLD CHENANGO ROAD 1791
LATER KNOWN AS CAYUGA AND
SENECA TURNPIKE 1802
Location: MARKER FASTENED TO E.FACE OF STORE N.W. CORNER GENESEE AND NORTH STS., 2ND STORY
SITE OF
WILLARD TAVERN 1810
REBUILT 1828-1830 AS
AMERICAN HOTEL
BURIED 1879
Location: ON 2ND STORY FACE METCALF BLDG., 141 GENESEE ST.
SITE OF
BOSTWICK'S
TAVERN 1803-1868
REBUILT 1824, RENAMED
WESTERN EXCHANGE HOTEL
LAFAYETTE A GUEST 1825
Location: ON E. FACE PEARSON BLOCK COR. GENESEE AND EXCHANGE STS.
SITE OF FIRST
SCHOOL HOUSE
ESTABLISHED IN AUBURN 1796
BENJAMIN PHELPS
SCHOOLMASTER
Location: ON W. SIDE NORTH ST. IN FRONT OF HOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL
SITE OF FIRST LOG
DAM AND MILL
ON OWASCO RIVER BUILT BY
JOHN L HARDENBERGH 1793
ENLARGED 1802
PRESENT STONE MILL 1824
Location: ON FACE OF GAS STATION S. SIDE GENESEE AT JUNC. MARKET. SITE, STONE MILL RECENTLY RAZED.
SITE OF LOG CABIN 1793
OF JOHN L. HARDENBERGH
FIRST SETTLER OF AUBURN
FIRST AURELIUS TOWN
MEETING HELD HERE 1794
Location: ON MARKET ST. IN FRONT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
WASCO
"THE CROSSING PLACE"
SITE OF A CAYUGA VILLAGE
OCCUPIED BY INDIANS BEFORE
AND AFTER SETTLEMENT OF
HARDENBERGH CORNERS
1793
Location: STATE ST.-GRASS PLOT BETWEEN PRISON WALL AND RIVER
WM. G. FARGO
MAY 20, 1818-AUG. 3, 1881
ORGANIZER OF WELLS-FARGO
EXPRESS COMPANY
SERVED HERE AS
FIRST FREIGHT AGENT
Location: ON 2ND STORY FACE SCHRECK BROS. STORE, 16 E. GENESEE ST.
[ARROW] 500 FEET
FORT HILL
PREHISTORIC INDIAN FORT
TRADITIONAL BIRTHPLACE
OF CHIEF LOGAN
NOW A CEMETERY
Location: S.W. CORNER FORT AND GENESEE STS.

County: CAYUGA
Town: AURELIUS, TOWN OF

1798 - 1800
OLD GENESEE ROAD
FROM HARDENBERGH CORNERS
TO HARRIS FERRY CROSSED
HERE
Location: ON STATE RD. 326, 1 MILE NORTH OF OAKWOOD
COL. JOHN HARRIS
FIRST WHITE SETTLER IN
CAYUGA COUNTY BUILT LOG
CABIN HERE 1788
ESTABLISHED HARRIS FERRY
ACROSS CAYUGA LAKE
Location: ON CO. RD. 1/2 MIL S. VILG. CAYUGA NEAR ENTRANCE COWAN'S PT. COTTAGE SETTLEMENT
FIRST CAYUGA COUNTY
COURT HELD HERE 1799
REMOVED TO AURORA 1804
AND TO AUBURN 1809
Location: IN CAYUGA VLGE. ON RTE 90 EAST SIDE, SOUTH OF GENESEE ST.
PIONEER ROADS
INDIAN TRAIL AND
EARLIEST ROAD
S.W. TO HARRIS FERRY
GENESEE TURNPIKE TO
CAYUGA BRIDGE BUILT 1800
Location: ON W. GENESEE ST. STATE RD. AT INTERSECTION CO. RD. AND LVRR
SITE OF
CAYUGA LONG BRIDGE
ONE MILE LONG, 1800-1857
CARRIED GREAT STREAM OF
WESTERN MIGRATION
EARLY COUNTY JAIL WAS
UNDER THIS END OF BRIDGE
Location: IN CAYUGA VILLAGE ON GREEN AT END OF GENESEE ST.
SITE OF
TREATY FOR PURCHASE
CAYUGA RESERVATION
FROM THE INDIANS
RED JACKET AND FISH CARRIER
SPOKESMAN FOR CAYUGAS
Location: ON CO. RD. 1/2 MIL S. VILG. CAYUGA NEAR ENTRANCE COWAN'S PT. COTTAGE SETTLEMENT
SULLIVAN'S CAMPAIGN
ONE MILE WEST
COL. BUTLER CROSSED
CAYUGA LAKE AND DESTROYED
CAYUGA VILLAGE OF TICHERO
Location: ON NYS 5 AND 20, 1 1/2 MILE E. OF BRIDGE

County: CAYUGA
Town: BRUTUS, TOWN OF

CAYUGA COUNTY
EARLY IROQUOIS COUNTRY 1768.
PART OF MONTGOMERY CO. 1784.
PART OF HERKIMER CO. 1791.
PART OF ONONDAGA CO. 1794.
CAYUGA CO. SET OFF 1799.
Location: RTE. 5 AT ONONDAGA CO. LINE
CENTERPORT
SETTLED BY BENJ. HAIKES
1805-6. WAS IMPORTANT
VILLAGE ON OLD ERIE
CANAL IN 1825
Location: CENTERPORT
TOWN OF BRUTUS
FORMED FROM AURELIUS 1802
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN TOWN
MADE BY ARRON FROST 1795;
HE BUILT THE FIRST
GRIST MILL
Location: WEEDSPORT
WEEDS' BASIN
NAMED AFTER ELIHU AND EDWARD
WEED WHO CONSTRUCTED A
BASIN ON OLD ERIE CANAL
1821. P.O. ESTABLISHED 1822
WEEDSPORT INC. VILLAGE 1831
Location: JUST NO. OF HOTEL, RTE. 34

County: CAYUGA
Town: CATO, TOWN OF

1800
FIRST SETTLEMENT
IN THE TOWN OF CATO
MADE BY SAMSON
LAWRENCE
Location: AT INTERSECTION L MI. N. OF SENECA RIVER
ABRAMS FERRY
FROM 1805 FOR MANY YEARS
ABRAMS WHO SETTLED IN
THAT YEAR MAINTAINED A
FERRY UNTIL THE TOLL
BRIDGE WAS BUILT
Location: NEAR BRIDGE OVER SENECA RIVER
CATO FOUR CORNERS
GEO. LOVELESS AND ABEL PASKO
FIRST SETTLERS IN 1804
JESSE ELWELL AND ABNER
HOLLISTER SETTLED IN 1805.
CALLED MERIDIAN SINCE 1849
Location: MERIDIAN
CERMONIAL FIRE
SITE OF PERMANENT VILLAGE
AND PERPETUAL COUNCIL FIRE
OF CAYUGA BRANCH OF THE
IROQUOIS. LAMOKAS, SENECAS
TRAIL TO ONONDAGA FOR SALT
Location: 1 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF MERIDIAN, ON WEEDSPORT COUNTY HIGHWAY
JAKWAY'S CORNERS
VILLAGE FORMERLY SO CALLED
FROM DR. JOHN JAKWAY
SETTLING 1809, ASSOCIATE
OF ETHAN ALLEN. PLATT
TITUS FIRST SETTLER 1805.
Location: CENTER OF CATO VILLAGE
METHODIST
EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1820.
BRICK EDIFICE BUILT 1828
REMODELED ABOUT 1870
Location: ON BRICK CHURCH ROAD
OLD MILL
FIRST GRIST MILL IN IRA.
BUILT IN 1818 BY JOHN
HOOKER, ASSOCIATE OF
ETHAN ALLEN. MILL WAS OLD
PART OF PRESENT BUILDING
Location: WEST OF CENTER OF CATO VILLAGE EAST SIDE OF R.R.

County: CAYUGA
Town: CONQUEST TOWN OF

"THE PEPPER MILL"
SO CALLED FROM THE FIRST
GRIST MILL IN TOWN BUILT
1810 BY THEOPHILUS EMERSON
WHO WITH HIS BROTHER
CLEMENT SETTLED HERE 1802
Location: IN EMERSON
CONQUEST CENTER
SETTLED 1802 BY JAMES
PERKINS AND SONS, IRA
GILBERT, JEREMIAH, AND
JOHN. JOHN WAS A CAPTIAN
IN THE WAR OF 1812
Location: CONQUEST VLGE. ON RTE. 3F
PINEVILLE
FORMERLY SO CALLED FROM
THE PINE FORESTS WHICH
COVERED THIS LOCALITY,
NAME CHANGED IN 1874
TO SPRING LAKE
Location: AT SPRING LAKE
TOWN OF CONQUEST
SET OFF FROM CATO 1821.
FIRST SETTLERS 1800.
GEO. SNYDER, A SOLIDER
OF THE REVOLUTION AND
ISRAEL WOLVERTON
Location: CONQUEST VLGE. ON RTE. 38

County: CAYUGA
Town: FELMING, TOWN OF

EAST CAYUGA-OLD TOWN
INDIAN VILLAGE OF 13 HOUSES
DESTROYED SEPT. 22, 1779
BY COL. WILLIAM BUTLER'S
DETACHMENT OF
SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
Location: ON GULLY RD. 1/2 MI. WEST OF RTE. 34B IN TN. SPRINGPORT

County: CAYUGA
Town: FLEMING, TOWN OF

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
IN AURELIUS WAS ERECTED
HERE 1796
PASTOR DAVID IRISH
FIRST CHURCH IN FLEMING
SECOND IN CAYUGA COUNTY
Location: ON BLUEFIELD RD. N.W. OF FLEMING
GEORGE FLEMING
CAPTAIN IN REVOLUTION
BREV. BRIG. GEN. 1816
BUILT THIS HOME ON HIS
MILITARY BOUNTY LAND
TOWN NAMED AFTER HIM 1823
Location: ON RTE. 34B 1/2 MILE S. MAPLETON
GREAT
IROQUOIS TRAIL
FROM CAYUGA TO OWASCO LAKES.
PART OF THE GREAT TRAIL FROM
NIAGARA TO ALBANY DURING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON 34, 1/4 MILE SO. LVRR AT BRICK SCHOOL
HOME OF
HENRY WYCKOFF
BUILT 1835. JACOB BYERS
SETTLED HERE 1790. PLANK
ROAD FROM HERE TO MORAVIA
BUILT IN 1852
Location: ON AUBURN MORAVIS STATE RD. AT WYCKOFF'S. W. SIDE OF RTE 38.
JOSIAH CHATFIELD
FIRST SETTLER
OF FLEMING VILLAGE 1798
ERECTED HIS HOME ON
THIS SITE
Location: N.W. CORNER, CENTER VILLAGE OF FLEMING
SAND BEACH CH.
REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH
CHURCH AT THE OWASCO OUTLET
ORGANIZED 1807
FIRST BUILDING 1810
PRESENT CHURCH 1855
Location: IN FRONT OF BRICK CHURCH ON W. OWASCO L. ROAD. SO. TRAFFIC CIRCLE

County: CAYUGA
Town: GENOA, TOWN OF

FIRST STORE
IN THE TOWN OF GENOA
WAS OPENED HERE BY
ELIHU TALLADAY
PRIOR TO 1800
Location: EAST GENOA ON RTE. 34
FORKS
OF THE CREEK
PINE LUMBER WAS SAWED
HERE FOR CONSTRUCTION
OF EARLY FARM HOUSES
IN THIS VICINITY
Location: EAST OF FIVE CORNERS AT THE FORKS
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, FIRST IN GENOA
ORGANIZED AUG. 13, 1798
BY EARLIEST SETTLERS IN
REGION, THEN KNOWN
AS THE MILITARY TRACT
Location: IN FRONT OF CHURCH IN KINGS FERRY
SITE OF
OLD CHURCH
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL IN TOWN
OF MILTON. ORGANIZED 1798.
FIRST LOG MEETING HOUSE
BUILT HERE IN 1802
Location: 1 MILE EAST AND 1 MILE SOUTH OF KINGS FERRY
SITE OF
LOG METTING HOUSE
BUILT 1802, BY CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH OF MILTON. ORGANIZED
IN 1798. SECOND OLDEST
CHURCH IN CAYUGA COUNTY
Location: CORRECTION OF ABOVE MARKER, SAME LOCATION
TOWN OF GENOA
ORGANIZED AS MILTON 1789.
NAME CHANGED TO GENOA 1808.
JOHN CLARK WAS THE FIRST
SETTLER 1791
Location: IN GENOA VILLAGE SOUTH SIDE RTE. 90 IN FRONT OF CHURCH

County: CAYUGA
Town: IRA, TOWN OF

BURIAL PLACE
OF THE PIONEERS OF THIS
SECTION, INCLUDING SEVERAL
REVOLUTIONARY VETERANS
1809-1860
Location: JUST WEST OF CATO-MERIDIAN CENTRAL SCHOOL
FOX'S KLIN
ANCIENT LIMESTONE QUARRIES
OPENED UP PRIOR TO 1835
Location: 3/4 MILE WEST OF IRA
IRA CORNERS
SETTLED IN 1805 BY THOMAS
BARNES, LUTHER SAMUEL AND
ISRAEL PHELPS. TWO LATTER
OPENED 1ST STORE 1813. PHELPS
BUILT HOTEL 1820, WHERE FIRST
TOWN MEETING WAS HELD, 1821.
Location: STANDS ON TOWN LINE NEAR LVRR
TOWN OF IRA
SET OFF FROM CATO 1821.
FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN TOWN,
1800, BY DAVID AND ELEAZER
STOCKWELL, WILLIAM
PATTERSON AND HENRY CONRAD
Location: IN CENTER OF VILLAGE

County: CAYUGA
Town: LEDYARD, TOWN OF

ALGONKIAN
INDIAN VILLAGE SITE PRIOR
TO IROQUOIS DURING STONE
AGE OCCUPATION ABOUT 1000
A.D. EXCAVATIONS 1932-34
SHOW HEARTHS AND BURIALS
Location: 1 MI. EAST OF LEVANNA
BIRTHPLACE OF
THEODORE LEDYARD CUYLER
BORN JAN. 10, 1822
DIED FEB. 26, 1909
PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMAN
AND WRITER
Location: VLG. AURORA, OPP. RR. STA.
BOUNDARY OF
RESERVATON
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF EAST
CAYUGA RESERVATION. CAYUGAS
RESERVED IT 1789. CEDED TO
N.Y. STATE BY TREATY 1794
Location: AURORA-SHERWOOD RD. W. OF SHERWOOD
BUILT 1804
HERE IN 1846 WAS BORN
ELIZA MOSHER
EMINENT WOMAN PHYSICIAN
1875-1928
Location: 1 MI. WEST RIDGEWAY CEMETERY
CAYUGA LAKE
ACADEMY
CHARTERED BY REGENTS 1801
FIRST BUILDING 1803
PRESENT STRUCTURE 1835
WELL KNOWN SCHOOL
Location: IN FRONT OLD BRICK SCHOOL OPPOSITE PRES. CH., AURORA
FIRST HOME
BUILT BY A WHITE MAN
CAPT. ROSEWELL FRANKLIN
IN CAYUGA COUNTY 1789
HE WAS AN OFFICER IN
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
Location: IN AURORA IN FRONT OF MISS EDITH MORGAN'S BARN, W. SIDE STATE ROAD
FIRST NEWSPAPER
IN CAYUGA COUNTY PUBLISHED
IN 1798 BY R. DELANO.
CALLED LEVANNA GAZETTE
OR ONONDAGA ADVERTISER
Location: AT LEVANNA
GLEN PARK 1852
HOME OF HENRY WELLS
FOUNDER OF
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., 1850
WELLS FARGO EXPRESS CO., 1852
WELLS COLLEGE, 1868
Location: FRONT WELLS COLLEGE, W. SIDE STREET
GRAVE OF
CAPT. ROSWELL FRANKLIN
FIRST SETTLER 1789
DIED 1792
Location: SO. SIDE PAINES CREEK GULLY, 1000 FT. E. BRIDGE, SO. END AURORA
HOME OF
JETHRO WOOD
INVENTOR OF CAST IRON
PLOUGH
Location: 1/2 MI. W. POPLAR RIDGE
ISAAC MEKEEL
HERE DEVELOPED
MANUFACTURE OF
AMBER CANE SYRUP
1860-1904
Location: 1 MI. WEST RIDGEWAY CEMETERY
LEDYARD
NAMED FROM BENJ. LEDYARD.
CALLED CHAPINS CRS. FROM
P. CHAPIN, SETTLED 1800
AND TALCOTTS CRS. FROM R.
TALCOTT, SETTLED 1812
Location: RTE. 34B VLGE. LEDYARD
OLD ELM TREE
REMAINING FROM
THE PRIMEVAL FOREST
Location: AURORA-POPLAR RIDGE RD. 1/2 MILE. WEST RR
PAINES CREEK GULLY
"MOONSHINE FALLS"
ONE MILE UPSTREAM
SITE OF EARLY SAW, GRIST
AND WOOLEN MILLS
Location: SO. END BRIDGE, RET. 90 SO. OF AURORA
PATRICK
TAVERN
ERECTED 1793
EARLY COURT HELD HERE
CAYUGA COUNTY MEDICAL
SOCIETY ORGANIZED HERE 1806
Location: SO. E. OR. DUBLIN HILL & MAIN ST. AURORA
PIONEER HOUSE
BUILT ABOUT 1799 BY
BENJAMIN HOWLAND
HERE SAME YEAR WAS HELD
FIRST MEETING IN COUNTY
OF SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Location: CHAPEL COR., PAINES CREEK RD. TO POPLAR RIDGE
RESIDENCE OF
MAJOR BENJAMIN LEDYARD
FIRST CLERK OF ONONDAGA
AND CAYUGA COUNTY
TOWN NAMED IN HIS HONOR
Location: NEAR HOUSE BACK FROM MAIN ST., SO OLD ACADEMY IN AURORA
SCIPIO LODGE
MASONIC CHARTER 1797
BUILDING ERECTED 1806
USED BY THE CRAFT
UNTIL 1819
Location: MAIN ST. 2ND HOUSE N. SCHOOL
SEQUOIA
(CALIFORNIA REDWOOD)
PLANTED IN 1826
Location: RTE. 90, NORTH END AURORA
SITE OF
CHONODOTE
"PEACH TOWN"
CAYUGA VILLAGE DESTROYED
WITH ORCHARD OF 1500
TREES DURING SULLIVAN
CAMPAIGN SEPT. 1779
Location: NORTH END VILLAGE ON RTE. 90
SITE OF
FIRST STEAM
FLOURING MILL
WEST OF HUDSON RIVER
BUILT BY ROSWELL TOWSLEY
1817
Location: S.E. COR. OLD STONE WAREHOUSE LYON PROPERTY, AURORA
SITE OF
UPPER CAYUGA
VILLAGE
DESTROYED BY COL. BUTLER'S
DETACHMENT OF SULLIVAN'S
ARMY, SEPT. 22-23, 1779
Location: SIDE RD. YOUNG FARM & MONUMENT NOW OWNED BY CAYUGA MUSEUM
TO
MOONSHINE FALLS
[ARROW]
Location: PROSPECT CRS. 1 MIL. E. RTE. 60
TO
MOONSHINE FALLS
[ARROW]
Location: RTE. 90 OPP. PAINES CREEK RD. TO POPLAR RIDGE
UPPER CAYUGA
MARKING THE PROBABLE
FORTIFICATION FOR NEARBY
INDIAN VILLAGES DESTROYED
BY COL. BUTLER'S SOLDIERS
SEPT 22-23, 1779
Location: ON GREAT GULLY FORT SITE. ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO HIKERS
WELLS COLLEGE
FOUNDED BY HENRY WELLS
1868
ORGANIZER OF AMERICAN AND
WELLS FARGO EXPRESS COMPANIES
Location: FRONT WELLS COLLEGE, E. SIDE STREET

County: CAYUGA
Town: LOCKE, TOWN OF

INDIAN
FORT SITE
THIS VICINITY IS SITE OF
AN INDIAN VILLAGE
PROBABLY FORTIFIED
AND INDIAN BURIAL GROUND
Location: WEST OF LOCKE
TOWN OF LOCKE
SET OFF FROM MILTON NOW
GENOA IN 1802. LOCKE
VILLAGE FORMERLY CALLED
MILAN FIRST SETTLED 1790
Location: IN LOCKE ON RTES. 90 & 38

County: CAYUGA
Town: MENTZ, TOWN OF

BRIGHAM YOUNG
THE MORMON PROPHET LIVED
IN THE HOUSE 100 YARDS
EAST OF HERE IN 1831. HE
WAS BAPTIED A MORMON IN
1832 AT MENDON, N.Y.
Location: PORT BYRON FRONT OF HOTEL
HENRY WELLS
FOUNDER OF WELLS FARGO
EXPRESS COMPANY WAS A
SHOEMAKER BY TRADE AND
LIVED IN THIS HOUSE
FROM 1827 TO ABOUT 1830
Location: RTE. 31, 38, IN PORT BYRON
PORT BYRON
NAMED 1832. INC. 1837.
FORMERLY CALLED BUCKSVILLE
FROM AHOLIAB BUCK, SETTLER
IN 1798, ALSO KING'S
SETTLEMENT FROM P. KING 1797
Location: IN FRONT PORT BYRON HOTEL

County: CAYUGA
Town: MONTEZUMA, TOWN OF

COL. COMFORT TYLER
1764-1827
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER, COL.
IN WAR OF 1812, SURVEYOR,
ENGINEER SALT MAKER.
SETTLED HERE IN 1811
Location: ON COR. NORTH RTE. 31
MONTEZUMA
NAMED FROM THE AZTEC
EMPERORS. TOWN FORMED FROM
MENTZ IN 1859. VILLAGE
INCORPORATED IN 1866
Location: IN MONTEZUMA BY HOTEL
OLD ERIE CANAL
COMPLETED FROM UTICA TO
HERE 1819. THE "MONTEZUMA"
BUILT HERE WAS THE FIRST
BOAT ON THE CANAL. TOOK
PASSENGERS TO SYRACUSE 1820
Location: ON OLD CANAL BY RTE. 90
SALT SPRINGS
CHIEF SUPPLY FOR INDIANS.
LATER EXTENSIVELY DEVELOPED
BY EARLY SETTLERS PRIVATELY
AND WITH STATE AID
Location: ON OLD CANAL BY RTE. 90
SQUAGONNA
ABORIGINAL NAME FOR
"PARADISE OF MUSQUITOES"
THE RIVER WAS TIOHERO
"RIVER OF RUSHES"
Location: NEAR BRIDGE OVER SENECA RIVER

County: CAYUGA
Town: MORAVIA, TOWN OF

CADY TAVERN
IN 1801 ZADOC CADY BUILT
A LOG TAVERN HERE. A FEW
YEARS LATER HE BUILT THE
PRESENT BUILDING
Location: SO. MAIN ST. IN VILLAGE
JOHN STOYELL
FIRST SETTLER IN MORAVIA
1790. BUILT FIRST HOUSE AT
REAR OF THIS LOT. WAS 1ST
JUSTICE AND SUPERVISOR OF
SEMPRONIUS IN 1798
Location: CORNER MAIN & CAYUGA STS.
MILLARD FILLMORE
13TH PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES, WAS BORN
IN A LOG CABIN IN
THE ADJACENT FIELD
JAN 7, 1800
Location: COUNTRY RD. 1/2 MI. N.W. RTE. 135
OLDEST HOUSE
IN MORAVIA
THE KITCHEN OF THIS HOUSE
IS THE ORIGINAL CABIN BUILT
BY GERSHOM MORSE IN 1794
Location: SO. MAIN ST. IN VILLAGE
OWASCO FLATS
SITE OF INDIAN VILLAGE
LAND CULTIVATED PRIOR TO
WHITE SETTLEMENTS.
NEIGHBORING SETTLERS CAME
TO HARVEST HAY 1789-90
Location: RTE. 38 WEST OF VILLAGE
SITE OF
OLD ARSENAL
NEW YORK STATE ARSENAL
NUMBER 68. BUILT IN
1800. STOOD FOR OVER
100 YEARS
Location: VLG. MORAVIA ON SIDE STREET
THE FIRST
CAST IRON PLOW
IN THE WORLD WAS MADE BY
JETHRO WOODS
AT FOOT OF FALLS
1819
Location: RTE. 38A BY BRIDGE, MONTVILLE
TOWN OF MORAVIA
FORMED FROM SEMPRONIUS IN
1833. VILLAGE OF MORAVIA
INCORPORATED IN 1837
REINCORPORATED IN 1859.
Location: BACK OF SERVICE STA. E. CAYUGA ST.

County: CAYUGA
Town: NILES, TOWN OF

KELLOGGSVILLE
NAMED AFTER JUDGE CHARLES
KELLOGG, WHO OPENED THE
FIRST STORE HERE IN 1804
Location: IN FRONT OF STORE
OLD MILL
PARTLY BUILT BY CHARLES
KELLOGG IN 1823. SOLD TO
HORACE ROUNDS IN 1851, TO
HIS SON EUGENE ROUNDS 1865,
TO W. E. ROUNDS & A. RYAN, 1919
Location: IN NEW HOPE
OLD SALT ROAD
OVER THIS ROAD
SALT
WAS FORMERLY TRANSPORTED
OVERLAND FROM SYRACUSE TO
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK
Location: KELLOGGSVILLE
TOWN OF NILES
SET OFF FROM SEMPRONIUS
IN 1833. FIRST SETTLED 1792.
NAMED FROM ELDER ROBT. NILES,
A PASTOR OF THE 1ST BAPTIST
CHURCH OF SEMPRONIUS
Location: AT DUTCH HOLLOW

County: CAYUGA
Town: OWASCO, TOWN OF

ALGONKIAN
VILLAGE SITE
OF THIRD PERIOD CULTURE
ONE OF LARGEST INDIAN
POTTERY JARS IN STATE
FOUND HERE
Location: IN ENNA JETTICK PARK OPP. SESQUI. MONUMENT
FORD
ACROSS WASCO OUTLET ON
GREAT IROQUOIS TRAIL USED
BY COL. PETER GANSEVOORT
WHO ENCAMPED HERE
SEPT. 21, 1779
Location: SO. SIDE PAVILION, EMERSON PARK
HERE
WAS BUILT IN 1798
FIRST CHURCH
IN CAYUGA COUNTY
REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH
OF OWASCO
Location: ON E. LAKE RD., BEYOND DUTCH HOLLOW-BURTIS POINT
TOWN OF OWASCO
FORMED FROM AURELIUS 1802.
FIRST SETTLEMENTS 1792
REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF
OWASCO ORGANIZED 1798.
CHURCH BUILT 1815
Location: IN OWASCO
WILLOW BROOK
HOME OF ENOS. T. THROOP
1784-1874
CONGRESSMAN 1815
CIRCUIT JUDGE 1823
GOVERNOR OF N.Y. 1829-32
Location: ON E. LAKE RD. SO.OF FOOT OF LAKE

County: CAYUGA
Town: SCIPIO, TOWN OF

#1 - THE SQUARE
SO NAMED BECAUSE OF BEING
ON LOT ONE OF THE TOWN
OF SCIPIO. THIS
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS
BUILT IN 1825
Location: AT #1 INTRSCTN. RTE. 34B & OLD RIDGE RD. AT PRES. CH.
CAYUGA CASTLE
STOOD TWO MILES WEST
RAZED BY COL. BUTLER
IN SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
SEPTEMBER 22-23, 1779
Location: ON RTE. 34B 1/2 MI. SO. RTE. 1
EARLY NEWSPAPER
THE WESTERN LUMINARY,
SECOND IN THE COUNTY
WAS PUBLISHED IN THIS
HOUSE MARCH 24, 1801
Location: SCIPIOVILLE, RTE. 34B
EMILY HOWLAND
1827-1929
NOTED EDUCATOR AND
PHILANTHROPIST, FOUNDED
THE SHERWOOD SELECT SCHOOL
1872, LIVED HERE
Location: SHERWOOD, RTE. 34B
INDIAN SITE
REMAINS OF LARGE VILLAGES
FOUND ON FARMS ON
EITHER SIDE OF THIS ROAD
CAYUGAS DRIVEN OUT BY
COL. BUTLER IN 1779
Location: ON RTE. 34B SO. OF SCRIPIONVILLE
PIONEER SITE
SETTLED 1794-95 BY
JUDGE SETH SHERWOOD
ERECTED HOUSE WHEREIN
COURT WAS HELD 1804 WHEN
VILLAGE WAS COUNTY SEAT
Location: IN SHERWOOD E. SIDE FRONT OF STORE
TOWN OF SCIPIO
ONE OF ORIGINAL
TOWNS OF THE MILITARY TRACT
FORMED IN 1794. NAMED
AFTER THE ROMAN GENERAL
Location: AT SCIPIO CENTER
WARING PLACE
BUILT AS A TAVERN 1806
MASONIC LODGE QUARTERS
1811-14, 1822-42
LOWER STORY USED AS
SCHOOL
Location: WARINGS CRS. RTE. 34 SO. SCRIPIO CNTR.

County: CAYUGA
Town: SEMPRONIUS, TOWN OF

OLD SALT ROAD
OVER THIS ROAD
SALT
WAS FORMERLY TRANSPORTED
OVERLAND FROM SYRACUSE TO
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK
Location: AT DRESSERVILLE ON CO. RD. 1/2 MI. E. OF RTE. 41A
SAYLES CORNERS
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN
SEMPRONIUS 1793 BY EZEKIEL
SAYLES, SURVEYOR AND FIRST
TOWN CLERK. HIS LOG HOUSE
STOOD ABOUT HERE
Location: AT SALES CRS. ON CO RD. BETWEEN RTES. 38A & 41A
SITE OF
GLEN HAVEN HOUSE WHICH IN
1845 WAS CONVERTED INTO
GLEN HAVEN SANITARIUM
DESTROYED TO PROTECT
SYRACUSE WATER SUPPLY
Location: ON W. LAKE RD. NEAR HEAD SKANEATELES LAKE

County: CAYUGA
Town: SENNETT, TOWN OF

BAPTIST
CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1799
FIRST STONE CHURCH BUILT
ON THIS SITE 1808
PRESENT CHURCH BUILT 1875
Location: NO. SIDE ST. E. OF CENTER SENNETT
BLACKSMITH
SHOP
BUILT ABOUT 1837. FIRST
TRIP HAMMER IN CAYUGA
COUNTY AND FIRST ONE USED
IN AUBURN PRISON MADE HERE
Location: FRANKLIN ST. RD. E. SOULE CEMTRY
BLACKSMITH
SHOP
BUILT PRIOR TO 1825
LOCAL METHODIST SOCIETY
HERE ORGANIZED AND PLANNED
ERECTION OF THEIR CHURCH
Location: SO. SIDE ROAD E. OF SENNETT
EARLY HOME
BUILT ABOUT 1795 BY
DANIEL SENNETT
SIDE JUDGE OF
CIRCUIT COURT
TOWN NAMED IN HIS HONOR
Location: ON RTE. 5 N. SIDE-E. OF SENNETT
FIRST STORE
IN VILLAGE OF SENNETT
OPENED 1795 BY
RUFUS SHELDON AND
CHAUNCEY LATHROP
FIRST POST OFFICE 1806
Location: NORTH EAST CORNER IN SENNETT
FIRST TAVERN
IN VILLAGE OF SENNETT
BUILT 1795
Location: NORTHWEST CORNER OF SENNETT
GREAT GENESEE ROAD
FROM OLD FORT SCHUYLER TO
THE GENESEE RIVER VIA
HARDENBERGH CORNERS AND
CAYUGA BRIDGE. BUILT 1794
Location: AT OWLS NEST ON FRANKLIN ST. RD. 1 MI. EAST OF SOULE CEMETERY
OLDEST CHURCH
IN SENNETT. BUILT 1820
ORGANIZED 1809 AS
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
REMODELED 1847
BECAME PRESBYTERIAN 1870
Location: SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SENNETT
SENECA TURNPIKE
1800
FROM UTICA TO CANANDAIGUA
VIA SKANEATELES CREEK AT END
OF CHERRY VALLEY TURNPIKE.
MIRGRATION ROUTE TO THE WEST
Location: ON RTE. 20 1 MI. E. OF AUBURN
THIS HOUSE
ERECTED 1823
DR. SYLVESTER WILLARD
Location: CENTER OF SENNETT, SO. SIDE FORMER RTE. 5

County: CAYUGA
Town: SPRINGPORT, TOWN OF

CAYUGA CASTLE
"GOI-O-GOUEN"
SITE OF PRINCIPAL
CAYUGA VILLAGE
DESTROYED SEPT. 23, 1779
SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
Location: ON SESQUI MONUMENT LOT NR. GREAT GULLY RTE. 90
CAYUGA CASTLE
SITE TWO MILES EAST
CAYUGA VILLAGE DESTROYED
IN SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
SEPTEMBER 1779
Location: JUNCTION RTE. 90 & GREAT GULLY ROAD
CAYUGA MINE
RESERVATION
NORTHWEST COR.OF SQ. MILE
RESERVED TO CAYUGAS BY
TREATIES 1789
SOLD TO THE STATE 1799
Location: ON AUBURN RD. 326, 2 MIS. E. RTE. 90
FIRST
SCHOOL HOUSE
IN TOWN OF SPRINGPORT
ERECTED ON THIS SITE
ABOUT 1800
Location: AT JUNCTION RTE. 90 & AUBURN RD.
FIRST CHURCH
ERECTED IN SPRINGPORT
1816 STOOD ON THIS SITE
USED UNTIL 1840
Location: AT CROSS ROADS
FRONTENAC
ISLAND
ANCIENT ALGONKIAN VILLAGE
SITE. INDIAN BURIAL PLACE
GIVEN TO UNION SPRINGS
BY THE STATE 1856
Location: UNION SPRINGS-ON ISLAND OFF UNION SPRINGS
GE-WAUGA
A SMALL CAYUGA VILLAGE
WHERE COL. BUTLER
CAMPED SEPT. 21, 1779
Location: IN FRONT OF OLD HIGH SCH. MAIN ST., UNION SPRINGS
HOME OF
JOHN J. THOMAS 1810-95
PROMINENT AGRICULTURIST
AN EDITOR OF "THE COUNTRY
GENTLEMAN" AND PROMOTER
OF CAYUGA LAKE R.R.
Location: UNION SPRINGS S. SIDE HOMER ST.
INDIAN MOUND
JUST EAST OF HERE
KNOWN TO BE THE SITE OF
AN EARLY JESUIT MISSION
Location: ON SESQUI MON. PLOT, RTE. 90 1 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF UNION SPRINGS
IROQUOIS TRAIL
FROM CAYUGA TO OWASCO
LAKES, PART OF THE GREAT
TRAIL FROM NIAGARA TO
ALBANY DURING THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON 326 NORTH OF OAKWOOD
RESERVATION OF
CAYUGAS
SOLD TO THE STATE 1799
A BODY OF TUSCARORAS WERE
THE LAST OF THE IROQUOIS
TO OCCUPY THIS POINT
Location: ON FARLEYS POINT
SPRING MILLS
ERECTED 1839-40 BY
GEORGE HOWLAND
STONE MILL THIRD BUILT
ON SAME SITE
SECOND WAS WOOLEN MILL
Location: IN FRONT OF POND W. SIDE RTE. 90, UNION SPRINGS
UPPER CAYUGA
SITE OF VILLAGE AND FORT
ON OPPOSITE BANK OF
GREAT GULLY
DESTROYED BY COL. BUTLER
IN SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
Location: ON SO. SIDE GREAT GULLY RD. 2 MILES EAST OF RTE. 90
YAWGER TAVERN
BUILT BY PETER YAWGER, 1810
ON THE JUNCTION OF THE
INDIAN TRAILS WASCO TO
GEWAUGA AND CHUHARO
TO GOIOGOVEN
Location: INTRSCTN. RTE. 326 & CO. RD. 1 MI. E. OF RTE. 90
[ARROW] WEST
FRONTENAC
ISLAND
SITE OF ALGONKIAN VILLAGE
DEEDED TO UNION SPRINGS
BY THE STATE FOR USE
AS A PARK 1856
Location: COR. RTE. 90 & SEMINARY ST. UNION SPRINGS

County: CAYUGA
Town: STERLING, TOWN OF

FAIR HAVEN
LITTLE SODUS
SETTLED PRIOR TO 1811
FIRST HOTEL, ABIJAH HUNT, 1825.
FIRST STORE, G. TAYLOR, 1825
Location: AT FAIR HAVEN ON RTE. 104A
MARTVILLE
CHAUNCEY HICKOCK AND
TIMOTHY AUSTIN SETTLED 1823,
BUILT FIRST MILLS, ROBT.
LAY BUILT FIRST STORE 1825
Location: MARTVILLE ON RTE. 104A
STERLING VALLEY
FIRST SETTLEMENT MADE HERE
1805 BY PETER DUMAS, A
SOLDIER WITH LAYFAYETTE.
EARLIER CALLED COOPERS
MILLS AFTER JOHN COOPER 1819
Location: AT STERLING VALLEY. ON RTE. 104A
TOWN OF STERLING
NAMED AFTER A REVOLUTIONARY
OFFICER, LORD WM. ALEXANDER
STERLING. SET OFF FROM CATO
1812. FIRST GRIST AND SAW
MILL BUILT HERE IN 1813
Location: AT STERLING CTR. ON RTE. 104A

County: CAYUGA
Town: SUMMERHILL, TOWN OF

OLD SALT ROAD
OVER THIS ROAD
SALT
WAS FORMERLY TRANSPORTED
OVERLAND FROM SYRACUSE TO
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK
Location: W. SIDE RD. AT HEAD SHERMAN GULF
OLD SALT ROAD
OVER THIS ROAD
SALT
WAS FORMERLY TRANSPORTED
OVERLAND FROM SYRACUSE TO
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK
Location: IN SUMMERHILL, RTE. 90
SUMMERHILL
FORMED FROM LOCKE AS PLATO
1831. NAME CHANGED 1832
FIRST SETTLEMENT MADE BY
HEZEKIAH MIX IN 1797
ONE MILE WEST OF HERE
Location: IN SUMMERHILL ON RTE. 90

County: CAYUGA
Town: THROOP, TOWN OF

HOME OF
GEN. JOHN S. CLARK
BORN 1823. DIED 1912.
CIVIL ENGINEER, HISTORIAN,
CIVIL WAR OFFICER AND
FIRST SUPERVISOR OF THROOP
Location: ON CO. RD. #1148 1 1/2 MIS. N.W. OF THROOPVILLE
THROOPSVILLE
FIRST SETTLED BY CHRISTOPHER
JEFFERIES, HOTEL KEEPER, IN
1799. REV. JOHN JEFFRIES
FIRST BAPTIST PASTOR.
MENTZ ORGANIZED 1803.
Location: THROOPSVILLE
TOWN OF THROOP
FORMED 1859 FROM PORTIONS
OF AURELIUS, MENTZ, AND
SENNETT. NAMED AFTER FORMER
GOVERNOR ENOS T. THROOP
OF AUBURN
Location: THROOPSVILLE
WARDS SETTLEMENT
NAMED FROM JONAS WARD AND
SON, CALEB, WHO SETTLED HERE
IN 1796. FIRST SETTLEMENT IN
THROOP MADE NEAR HERE IN 1790
BY EZEKIAL CRANE
Location: NEAR TN.LINE ON RAOD FROM THROOPSVILLE TO MONTEZUMA

County: CAYUGA
Town: VENICE, TOWN OF

BAPTIST
CHURCH
FOUNDED JUNE 9, 1795 BY
ELDER DAVID IRISH
PRESENT CHURCH ERECTED
1812-14
Location: STEWARTS CORNERS
HOME OF
DANIEL HOLLEY
SETTLED HERE 1797. THE
FRAME HOUSE BUILT SOON
AFTER IS PART OF BARN
Location: 1 MI.S. & 1/2 MI. E. OF STEWARTS CNRS.
INDIAN FIELDS
FARMS OF THE CAYUGAS
BEFORE REVOLUTION
HERE WHITE SETTLERS FOUND
CLEARED AND CULTIVATED
FIELDS, VILLAGES AND FORTS
Location: INDIAN FIELDS ON RTE. 34 SO. OF VENICE CENTER
INDIAN FIELDS
FARMS OF THE CAYUGAS
BEFORE REVOLUTION
HERE WHITE SETTLERS FOUND
CLEARED AND CULTIVATED
FIELDS, VILLAGES AND FORTS
Location: ON RTE. 34 NO. OF TOWN LINE
SITE OF
FIRST STORE
BUILT ABOUT 1800 BY
JETHRO WOOD, INVENTOR
PRESENT STORE BUILT FROM
SOME OF ORIGINAL TIMBERS
Location: POPLAR RIDGE
TOWN OF VENICE
SET OFF FROM SCIPIO 1823.
SETTLED AS EARLY AS 1790.
JOSHUA MURDOCK CAME HERE
IN 1800 AND BUILT A
HOMESTEAD IN 1816
Location: VENICE CENTER

County: CAYUGA
Town: VICTORY, TOWN OF

NORTH VICTORY
FIRST SETTLEMENT BY CONRAD
PHROZINE IN 1812. HERE IS
THE SITE OF THE MILL HE
BUILT
Location: AT INTERSECTION RTES. 104 & 38
TOWN OF VICTORY
SET OFF FROM CATO 1821.
FIRST SETTLEMENTS 1800 BY
JOHN MCNEAL AND JOHN
MARTIN. VILLAGE SETTLED
BY JAMES GREGORY IN 1806
Location: IN VICTORY
WESTBURY
FIRST SETTLED IN 1806 BY
WILLIAM AND JACOB
BURGHDUFF. M.E. CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1816, BUILT 1838
Location: 1 1/2 MILES N.W. OF VICTORY

County: CHAUTAUQUA
Town: ARKWRIGHT, TOWN OF

FIRST
OIL WELL
IN ARKWRIGHT WAS
ERECTED ON THIS SITE
ABOUT 1840
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. S. OF FORESTVILLE
FIRST CHEESE
FACTORY
IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
ERECTED HERE IN 1861 BY
ASAHEL BURNHAM
Location: ON CO. RD. AT GRISWOLD

County: CHAUTAUQUA
Town: CARROLL, TOWN OF

FREW HOUSE
FIRST HOUSE ERECTED IN
FEWSBURG. BUILT 1807 BY
HUGH AND MARY R. FREW.
Location: ON NYS 60 AT KIANTONE-CARROLL TOWN LINE
HOME OF
JAMES AND MARY W. FREW
BUILT 1821
Location: ON NYS 60 IN FREWSBURG

County: CHAUTAUQUA
Town: CHAUTAUQUA, TOWN OF

DONALD MACKENZIE
BORN IN SCOTLAND 1783
DIED IN MAYVILLE 1851
AT ONE TIME PARTNER OF
JOHN JACOB ASTOR IN
PACIFIC FUR CO.
Location: ON NYS 430 IN VLGE. OF MAYVILLE
FIRST COURTS
WERE HELD IN THIS COUNTY
IN 1811 - 12 - 13 IN A SMALL
TWO-STORY PLANK HOUSE
BUILT HERE FOR THE PURPOSE
Location: ON NYS 17, VLGE. OF MAYVILLE
FIRST SETTLER
ON CHAUTAUQUA LAKE WAS
DR. ALEXANDER MCINTYRE
WHO ERECTED HERE HIS LOG
CABIN AND STOCKADE
Location: ON NYS 17J IN VLGE. OF MAYVILLE
LAND OFFICE
HERE IN 1810 WILLIAM PEACOCK,
LOCAL AGENT OF HOLLAND LAND
CO. BUILT HIS CABIN AND OFFICE
OF LOGS. HE SERVED 26 YEARS
Location: ON NYS 17 IN VLGE. OF MAYVILLE
MACKENZIE HOME
HERE IN 1833 DONALD
MACKENZIE, FAMOUS IN
"NORTH WEST" FUR TRADE
BUILT HIS DWELLING
Location: LOCATED AT REAR OF MAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
PIONEER HOME
JUNE, 1806 WILLIAM AND
MEHITABLE WING PRENDERGAST
AND FAMILY SETTLED IN A LOG
HOUSE. SONS NOTABLE IN
COUNTY HISTORY
Location: ON CO. RD. 2 MIS. S. CHAUTAUQUA
SITE OF
SCOTT TAVERN
FIRST BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
MET HERE. SEVERAL OF THE
EARLY COURTS WERE HELD HERE
Location: ON NYS 17J, VLGE. OF MAYVILLE

County: CHAUTAUQUA
Town: ELLICOTT, TOWN OF

NATHAN BROWN
IN 1850'S BUILT FLAT BOATS
LOADED WITH JAMESTOWN
"YANKEE NOTIONS," SET OUT
FOR SOUTH. FOR YEARS BOATS
TOOK LADING HERE.
Location: ON NYS 17 AT LEVANT

County: CHAUTAUQUA
Town: HANOVER, TOWN OF

1796
AMOS SOTTLE
1000 FT. N.W. OF THIS POINT
AMOS SOTTLE, FIRST SETTLER
IN EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
ERECTED HIS LOG CABIN
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF IRVING
LA GRANGE 1796
IRVING WAS FIRST CALLED
LA GRANGE AND ITS FIRST
SETTLER WAS AMOS SOTTLE
WHO BUILT HIS CABIN 3/4
MILES SOUTH OF THIS POINT
Location: ON US 20 AT IRVING

County: CHAUTAUQUA
Town: JAMESTOWN, TOWN OF

1ST TEXTILE MILL
HERE IN 1816 FIRST WOOLEN
MILL WAS BUILT BY DANIEL
HAZELTINE. HERE WAS DYED AND
FINISHED CLOTH WOVEN ON HAND-
LOOMS BY WOMEN IN EARLY HOMES.
Location: ON EAST 1 ST STREET
FIRST SASH FACTORY
BUILT HERE 1826, IN 1845 DOORS
AND BLINDS WERE ALSO MANU-
FACTURED. FROM 1829 THESE
WARES WERE SHIPPED SOUTH ON
FLAT BOATS MANY YEARS.
Location: ON WINDSOR STREET
FIRST TRAIN
ARRIVED IN JAMESTOWN
AUGUST 25, 1861 OVER
THE NEWLY LAID RAILS
OF THE ATLANTIC AND
GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD.
Location: ON MAIN STREET
HERE IN 1811
JAMES PRENDERGAST
BUILT A LOG HOUSE, SAW-
MILL AND DAM, BEGINNING
OF JAMESTOWN INDUSTRY
BUILDING BURNED 1812
Location: ON WEST 2ND STREET
HERE STOOD A STATION OF
UNDERGROUND R.R
IN WHICH CATHERINE HARRIS
DID HEROIC SERVICE FOR
FUGITIVE SLAVES
Location: ON 7TH STREET
HOME OF
REUBEN E. FENTON
"THE SOLDIERS' FRIEND"
GOVERNOR 1865-1869
U.S. SENATOR 1869-1875
Location: ON SOUTH MAIN STREET
LOG CABIN 1810
HERE JOHN BLOWERS BUILT
FIRST HOME IN JAMESTOWN
AND MARY BLOWERS, FIRST
WHITE CHILD WAS BORN THAT WINTER
Location: ON FAIRMONT AVENUE
PIERRE CELORON
WHITE FRENCH AND INDIANS
PASSED DOWN THE CHADAKOIN
TO THE ALLEGHANY IN 1749
CLAIMING THE TERRITORY,
FOR FRANCE
Location: ON FAIRMONT AVENUE
SITE OF
JAMESTOWN FEMALE
SEMINARY
1849-1859, CLARISSA D.
WHEELER FOUNDER AND HEAD
Location: ON NORTH MAIN STREET
SITE OF
QUAKER SCHOOL
SO NAMED BECAUSE MARY E.
OSBORNE, A QUAKERESS
CONDUCTED IT. 1833-1843
Location: ON FOOTE AVENUE
SITE OF
THE FOOTE HOME
BUILT IN 1823 BY ELIAL
TODD FOOTE, PHYSICIAN,
LEGISLATOR, JURIST,
HISTORIAN, WHO SETTLED
IN JAMESTOWN IN 1815.
Location: ON EAST 2ND STREET
SITE OF
METHODIST CHURCH
FIRST EDIFICE OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN JAMESTOWN WAS ERECTED IN
1830. A PLAIN HOUSE 40 BY
50 FEET
Location: ON 2ND STREET
SITE OF
PAIL FACTORY
FIRST FACTORY FOR MAKING
WOODEN PAILS AND TUBS BUILT
IN 1829, LARGE INDUSTRY FOR
YEARS. FIRST FLAT BOAT STOCKS
BUILT HERE 1835.
Location: ON WINDSOR ST.

County: CHAUTAUQUA
Town: RIPLEY, TOWN OF

SITE OF
FARM OF ALEXANDER COCHRAN
1804, FIRST SETTLER
IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
Location: ON US 20 ABOUT 2 MIS. NE PENNA.-N.Y. STATE LINE
SITE OF
FARM OF WILLIAM CROSSGROVE, 1807
ONE OF ORIGINAL INHABITANTS
OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
Location: ON US 20 ABOUT 1 MI. NE OF PENNA.-N.Y. STATE LINE

County: CHEMUNG
Town: ASHLAND, TOWN OF

LINE OCCUPIED
RIFLE CORPS
UNDER GENERAL HAND
AT OPENING OF BATTLE
AUGUST 29, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 AT LOWMAN
LINE OF RUDE
BREASTWORKS
WHERE BRITISH AND INDIANS
DISPUTED ADVANCE OF
SULLIVAN'S ARMY
AUGUST 29, 1779
Location: AT INTRSECTN. NYS 17 & 367
NEWTOWN
SO NAMED BY GENERAL SULLIVAN
OCCUPIED BY BRITISH
AND INDIANS
DESTROYED BY GENERAL
SULLIVAN, AUGUST 30, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 1 MI. W. OF LOWMAN
THIS RIDGE
FORTIFIED BY THE BRITISH
FORMED THE SOUTH LINE
OF DEFENCE
AUGUST 29, 1779
Location: ON NYS 367 SOUTH OF LOWMAN

County: CHEMUNG
Town: BIG FLATS, TOWN OF

FIRST SETTLER
CHRISTIAN MYNEER BUILT
FIRST LOG CABIN 1787 AND
FIRST FRAME HOUSE AND
PLANTED FIRST ORCHARD IN
TOWN OF BIG FLATS
Location: ON 17 E 1 1/2 MI. W. ELMIRA
RUNONVEA
INDIAN VILLAGE
DESTROYED BY GEN. SULLIVAN
AUGUST 31, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 AT BIG FLATS

County: CHEMUNG
Town: CHEMUNG, TOWN OF

CAMP OF
GEN. MAXWELL'S
BRIGADE
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
AUGUST 28, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 2 MIS. W. OF CHEMUNG
CAMP OF
GEN. CLINTON'S
BRIGADE
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
AUGUST 28, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 2 MIS. W. OF CHEMUNG
CHEMUNG RIVER
DERIVED ITS NAME FROM
"BIG HORN" ON TUSK OF
MAMMOTH FOUND IN
RIVER BEFORE 1757
Location: ON NYS 17 3 MIS. W. OF CHEMUNG
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 NR. CHEMUNG-TIOGA CO. LINE
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 AT CHEMUNG
OLD CHEMUNG
INDIAN VILLAGE
DESTROYED BY GEN. SULLIVAN
AUGUST 31, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 AT CHEMUNG
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
ARMY CAMP
ON RIVER FLATS TO SOUTH
AUGUST 27, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 1/2 MI. W. OF CHEMUNG
[ARROW]
SULLIVAN ROAD
OVER NARROWS MOUNTAIN
BUILT FOR USE OF
SULLIVAN'S ARMY
EXPEDITION AGAINST INDIANS
1779
Location: ON NYS 17 1/2 MI. W. OF CHEMUNG

County: CHEMUNG
Town: ELMIRA, CITY OF

DEWITTSBURGH
NEWTOWN POINT
BOUNDARY ABOUT 1790
VILLAGE NAMED AFTER
MOSES DEWITT
Location: ON E. WATER ST. IN ELMIRA
ENCAMPMENT
SULLIVAN'S ARMY
ON RETURN FROM EXPEDITION
AGAINST THE INDIANS
SEPT. 24-29, 1779
Location: ON E. WATER ST. IN ELMIRA
MARK TWAIN STUDY
BUILT ON EAST HILL 1874
GIVEN TO ELMIRA COLLEGE IN
1952. HE WROTE "TOM SAWYER,"
OTHER NOVELS IN THE STUDY
WHEN SUMMERING IN ELMIRA.
Location: AT EDGE OF PARK PL. IN ELMIRA
OLD FERRY
OPERATED FROM ABOUT
1800 TO 1824
PRECEDED FIRST BRIDGE
Location: IN BRAND PARK IN ELMIRA
OLD SECOND
STREET CEMETERY
1838-1919, HERE ARE BURIED
PIONEERS, AND SOLDIERS OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WAR OF 1812
AND THE UNION ARMY
Location: N.W. CNR., COLLEGE AVE. & W 2ND ST. IN ELMIRA

County: CHEMUNG
Town: ELMIRA, TOWN OF

MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 13 & NYS 17 IN ELMIRA HEIGHTS
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 AT ENTRANCE TO NEWTOWN BATTLEFIELD STATE PARK

County: CHEMUNG
Town: HORSEHEADS, TOWN OF

MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 14 1 MI. N. OF HORSEHEADS

County: CHEMUNG
Town: SOUTHPORT, TOWN OF

FITZSIMMONS
CEMETERY
CONTAINS REMAINS OF MANY
PIONEERS AND MEMBERS OF
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
Location: ON NYS 427 SO. OF ELMIRA

County: CHEMUNG
Town: VETERAN, TOWN OF

GREEN BENTLY
1741-1821
SERVED IN SULLIVAN-CLINTON
CAMPAIGN AND WAS A PIONEER
IN MILLPORT. DEDICATED BY
BOY SCOUTS OF MILLPORT
Location: ON NYS 14 AT MILLPORT
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 14 AT MILLPORT

County: CHENANGO
Town: AFTON, TOWN OF

MORMON HOUSE
JOSEPH SMITH, FOUNDER
OF THE MORMON CHURCH
WAS MARRIED IN THIS HOUSE
JANUARY 18, 1827
TO EMILY HALE
Location: ON NYS 41 AT AFTON

County: CHENANGO
Town: AUGUSTA, V. OF ORISKANY FALLS

CHENANGO CANAL
AUTHORIZED 1833, UTICA TO
BINGHAMTON. COMPLETED 1836.
72 LOCKS IN 30 MILES
ABANDONED 1876
STATE EDUCATION

County: CHENANGO
Town: BAINBRIDGE, TOWN OF

FIRST TOLL GATE
ON THE
SUSQUEHANNA-BATH
TURNPIKE
WAS NEAR THIS POINT
Location: ON NYS 206 3 MIS. N.W. OF BAINBRIDGE

County: CHENANGO
Town: COLUMBUS, TOWN OF

[ARROW]
1/4 MILE
TO HISTORIC
CARR FARM
MEETING PLACE OF BRANT'S
INDIANS AND TORIES
1770-1778
Location: ON NYS 8 6 MIS. NORTH OF NEW BERLIN

County: CHENANGO
Town: GREENE, TOWN OF

FIRST
BAPTIST CHURCH
IN CHENANGO COUNTY
ORGANIZED ON THIS SITE
BY ELDER NATHANIEL KELLOGG
IN 1795
Location: ON NYS 12 4 MIS. N.E. GREENE
FIRST BRIDGE
ACROSS THE CHENANGO RIVER
WAS BUILT ON THIS SITE IN
1807. SUSQUEHANNA AND BATH
TURNPIKE CROSSED HERE.
Location: ON NYS 41 AT GREENE
FIRST CHURCH
IN VILLAGE OF GREENE
THIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
WAS ORGANIZED IN 1811.
THE FIRST PASTOR WAS
REV. JOHN B. HOYT.
Location: ON NYS 12 T GREENE
FIRST HOTEL
IN GREENE
ERECTED ON THIS SITE
IN 1803 BY THOMAS
WATTLES
Location: ON NYS 41 AT GREENE
GO-WON-GO
MOHAWK
AN INDIAN PRINCESS
LIVED IN THIS HOUSE
Location: ON NYS 12 AT GREENE
GREENE
SETTLED IN 1795
BY STEPHEN KETCHUM;
ALSO BY FRENCH REFUGEES.
TALLEYRAND VISITED HIS
COMPATRIOTS HERE IN 1795.
Location: ON NYS 12 AT GREENE
GREENE
VILLAGE LAID OUT IN 1806
BY ELISHA SMITH. WAS FIRST
CALLED HORNBY. LATER NAMED
FOR GEN. NATHANIEL GREENE.
INCORPORATED 1842
Location: ON NYS 12 AT GREENE
NEAR THIS SITE
STEPHEN KETCHUM
THE FIRST SETLER IN
TOWN OF GREENE, BUILT
HIS LOG CABIN IN 1792
WILCOX HOMESTEAD
FIRST TAVERN IN THE TOWN
OF GREENE ERECTD ON THIS
SITE BY CONRAD SHARP, 1794.
FIRST TOWN MEETING
HELD HERE IN 1798
Location: ON NYS 12 2 MIS. N. OF GREENE

County: CHENANGO
Town: LINCKLAEN, TOWN OF

JOHN B. FINCH
GREAT TEMPERANCE ORATOR,
BORN HERE MARCH 17, 1852
RIGHT WORTHY GRAND TEMPLAR
OF THE WORLD-WIDE ORDER OF
GOOD TEMPLARS, 1884-1887
Location: ON CO. RD. 1 1/2 MIS. N. LINCKLAEN

County: CHENANGO
Town: MC DONOUGH, TOWN OF

DEACON TOWNE
CAME WITH PIONEERS FROM NEW
ENGLAND AND HELD FIRST RELIGIOUS
SERVICES HERE IN LOG CABINS.
BURIED ON FORMER MICHAEL AND
DANIEL PIKE FARM, SOUTH OF FENCE.
Location: ON TOWN RD. 2 MIS. N.E. MC DONOUGH
SETTLERS OF
MC DONOUGH
FIRST PERMANENT SETTLERS:
SYLVANUS MOORE, NEH. DUNBAR
BENJ. KETCHAM, BENJ. KENYON
HENRY LUDLOW, EPH. FISH
Location: ON CO. RD. AT MC DONOUGH
TOWN OF
MC DONOUGH
SET OFF FROM TOWN OF PRESTON
APRIL 17, 1816. NAMED FOR
COMMODORE THOMAS
MAC DONOUGH, 1783-1825
Location: ON NYS 220 AT MC DONOUGH

County: CHENANGO
Town: NEW BERLIN, TOWN OF

JOHN P. USHER
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
UNDER ABRAHAM LINCOLN
PRACTICED LAW IN THIS SITE
IN COMPANY WITH JOHN HYDE
1837-1839
Location: ON NYS 8 AT NEW BERLIN
NEW BERLIN
FIRST SETTLED ABOUT 1790
ANSON BURLINGAME BORN HERE
NOVEMBER 14, 1820
U.S. MINISTER TO CHINA
UNDER PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Location: ON NYS 8 AT NEW BERLIN
SITE OF
DANIEL SCRIBNER'S HOME
BUILT 1790, FIRST HOUSE IN
16TH TOWNSHIP. LARGE LOG
BUILDING USED AS TRADING
POST AND FOR TOWN MEETINGS
Location: ON NYS 8 2 MIS. S. NEW BERLIN
UNADILLA RIVER
LANDS WEST OF RIVER CEDED
TO N.Y. STATE INDIANS IN
A TREATY MADE BY GOV. GEORGE
CLINTON AT FORT SCHUYLER,
SEPTEMBER 22, 1788
Location: ON NYS 8 2 MI. N. NEW BERLIN

County: CHENANGO
Town: NORTH NORWICH, TOWN OF

ON THIS SITE
IN 1798 STOOD THE HOME
OF OBADIAH GERMAN, MILITIA
GENERAL, LAND AGENT, STATE
ASSEMBLYMAN, UNITED STATES
SENATOR 1809-1815
Location: ON CO. RD. AT NORHT NORWICH

County: CHENANGO
Town: NORWICH, TOWN OF

1/4 MILE WEST
"THE CASTLE"
ONEIDA INDIAN FORT.
COUNCILS HELD HERE
UP TO 1790
Location: ON CO. RD. 1/4 MI. S. POLKVILLE
1789
CAPT. JOHN HARRIS, SEAMAN
AND PIONEER, BOUGHT LAND
FROM BROAD STREET TO RIVER.
FIRST NORWICH TOWN MEETING
HELD IN HIS HOME.
Location: ON NYS 12 AT NORWICH
AVERY POWER
FIRST SETTLER IN TOWN
OF NORWICH 1788; OWNED
ADJOINING RIVER FLAT.
LUCY POWER, FIRST WHITE
NATIVE OF CHENANGO VALLEY
Location: ON NYS 12 1/2 MI. SO. NORWICH
FIRST LOG CABIN
IN NORWICH WAS BUILT ON
THIS SITE ABOUT 1790 BY
COLONEL WILLIAM MONROE
"DRUMMER BOY OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR"
Location: ON GROUNDS OF CO. COURTHOUSE AT NORWICH
WHITE STORE CHURCH
BUILT 1820 BY
BAPTISTS, METHODISTS, AND
UNIVERSALISTS. CHURCH IN
ORIGINAL FORM EXCEPT
PULPIT LOWERED 1863.
Location: ON NYS 8 AT WHITE STORE

County: CHENANGO
Town: OXFORD, TOWN OF

BLACKMAN FARM
SETTLED BY ELIJAH BLACKMAN
1788; THE FIRST SETTLER
IN THE TOWN ON OXFORD
Location: ON NYS 12 1 MI. N..E. OXFORD
CONGREATIONAL CHURCH
OLDEST CHURCH EDIFICE STANDING
IN THE VILLAGE OF OXFORD
DEDICATED JULY 31, 1823
Location: ON NYS 220 AT OXFORD
FIRST SITE OF
OXFORD ACADEMY
CHARTER GRANTED, 1794.
URI TRACY, FIRST PRINCIPAL.
ONE OF THE FIRST FOUR CHARTERS
GRANTED WEST OF HUDSON RIVER
Location: ON NYS 220 AT OXFORD
FORT HILL MILL
BUILT IN 1794 BY THEODORE
BURR AND JOHNTHAN BALDWIN
Location: ON NYS 12 AT OXFORD
HOUSE BUILT BY
JOHNATHAN BALDWIN IN 1794.
BUILDER OF MANY OF THE FIRST
HOUSES, FIRST SCHOOL HOUSES
AND SECOND RIVER BRIDGE IN OXFORD
Location: ON STATE STREET AT OXFORD
JUNCTION OF
ITHACA-CATSKILL TURNPIKE
AND THE UTICA-BINGHAMTON
LINE OF POST-COACHES.
STAGE ROUTE AND MAIL
LINE FORMED IN 1822.
Location: ON WASHINGTON AVE. AT OXFORD
LAKE WARN
ACCORDING TO TRADITION BURIAL
PLACE TO THICK NECK, GIANT
CHIEF OF THE ANTONES, A TRIBE
OF THE TUSCARORAS, KILLED
BY THE ONEIDAS.
Location: ON NYS 12 4 MIS. S.W. OXFORD
OXFORD
NAMED BY BENJAMIN HOVEY
AFTER HIS NATIVE TOWN,
OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.
Location: ON NYS 22 AT OXFORD
OXFORD
FIRST TOWN MEETING
HELD IN APRIL 1794.
INCORPORATED AS VILLAGE
APRIL 6, 1806.
Location: ON FORMER NYS 12 AT OXFORD
SITE OF
LOG HOUSE BUILT BY
BENJAMIN HOVEY, 1790,
WHO SERVED IN THE
REVOLUTION AND WAS KNOWN
AS "FATHER OF THE SETTLEMENT"
Location: IN PARK IN FRONT OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL AT OXFORD
SITE OF
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
ERECTED IN 1816. THE
FIRST CHURCH
EDIFICE IN THE
VILLAGE OF OXFORD
Location: IN PARK IN FRONT OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL AT OXFORD
SITE OF ANCIENT
INDIAN FORT
IN 1791 EARLY SETTLERS
FOUND EVIDENCE OF THIS
FORT HAVING BEEN IN USE
FOR MANY YEARS
Location: IN PARK IN FRONT OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL AT OXFORD

County: CHENANGO
Town: SHERBURNE, TOWN OF

"WESTERN ORACLE"
FIRST NEWSPAPER IN CHENANGO
CO. WAS PUBLISHED ON THIS
SITE IN 1803 BY ABRAHAM
AND NICHOLAS REMEYN
Location: ON CO. RD. AT SHERBURNE FOUR CNRS.
ALBANY-ITHACA TURNPIKE
A STAKE DRIVEN HERE
MARKED 100 MILES WEST
FROM ALBANY ON THE
ALBANY-ITHACA TURNPIKE
BUILT 1805
Location: ON NYS 8 1 MI. E. SHERBURNE
WEST HILL - 1802
COLONEL WILLIAM S. SMITH,
AIDE TO WASHINGTON, OWNED
150,000 ACRES HEREABOUT IN
1791; MARRIED ABIGAIL ADAMS.
BURIED AT REAR, DUE NORTH
Location: ON NYS 80 2 MIS. N.W. SHERBURNE

County: CHENANGO
Town: SMYRNA, TOWN OF

ALBANY-ITHACA TURNPIKE
A STAKE DRIVEN HERE
MARKED 101 MILES WEST
FROM ALBANY ON THE
ALBANY-ITHACA TURNPIKE
BUILT 1805
Location: ON NYS 80 AT SGERBURNE

County: CLINTON
Town: AUSABLE, TOWN OF

TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32. VIA
AUSABLE FORKS, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 9N AT CLINTONVILLE
UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD
STATION WHERE
NEGRO SLAVES WERE AIDED
TO ESCAPE TO CANADA
Location: IN FRONT OF GREEN APPLE INN ON RTE. 9 AT KEESEVILLE

County: CLINTON
Town: BLACK BROOK, TOWN OF

TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32. VIA
AUSABLE FORKE, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE,
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT BLACK BROOK
TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32. VIA
AUSABLE FORKE, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE,
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON COUNTY RD AT UNION FALLS

County: CLINTON
Town: CHAMPLAIN, TOWN OF

CAMP GROUND
OF THE BRITISH ARMY, 1814.
OPPOSITE IS THE
FARM OF PLINY MOORE,
BUILT IN 1808,
AND USED BY THE COMMISSARY
Location: ON PROSPECT ST., CHAMPLAIN
EAST BATTERY
ON THIS HILL WAS ENCAMPED
THE ARTILLERY OF THE
AMERICAN ARMY
UNDER GEN. GEORGE IZARD
1814
Location: ON PINE ST. AT CHAMPLAIN
IN THE
FIRST SCHOOL
WHICH STOOD NEAR THIS SITE
DR. WILLIAM BEAUMONT
SURGEON AND PHYSIOLOGIST
WAS SCHOOLMASTER, 1807-10
Location: ON OAK ST. AT CHAMPLAIN
NEAR THIS SITE THE
FIRST SAW MILL
WAS ERECTED IN 1788 BY
PLINY MOORE
AND
ELNATHAN ROGERS
Location: ON US 11 AT WESTERN EDGE OF VILLAGE OF CHAMPLAIN
SITE OF
BURYING YARD
IN WHICH WAS INTERRED
LT. COL. BENJAMIN FORSYTH
KILLED AT ODELLTOWN, L.C.
JUNE 28, 1814
Location: ON OAK ST. AT. CHAMPLAIN
SITE OF THE BIRTHPLACE
JEHUDI ASHMUN
APRIL 21, 1794
FIRST COLONIZATION AGENT
AT LIBERIA, AFRICA
1822-1828
Location: ON OAK ST. AT CHAMPLAIN

County: CLINTON
Town: MOOERS, TOWN OF

FIRST BRIDGE
BUILT ON THIS SITE WAS FOR
THE PLATTSBURG-MONTREAL R.R.
HELPING TO BRING PEACE
FROM BUSINESS STRIFE
IN THE NORTH COUNTRY.
Location: ON NYS 22 AT MOOERS
FIRST TOWN MEETING
HELD IN HOME OF JOHN SHEDDEN
APRIL 3, 1804. HIS GRANDSON,
LUCIEN LOVE SHEDDEN WAS REGENT
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK 1905-1912
Location: ON NYS 22 AT MOOERS
MOOERS JUNCTION
ABOUT 1850 EATING HOUSE
WAS EAST OF THIS SITE WHERE
PLATTSBURG-MONTREAL AND
OGDENSBURG-LAKE CHAMPLAIN
RAILROADS CROSSED
Location: ON NYS 22 AT MOOERS
SITE OF
LINCOLN WIGWAM
BETWEEN MAIN STREET AND
R.R. BRIDGE ON WEST SIDE.
FIRST TAVERN, FIRST STORE IN
TOWN AND VILLAGE OF MOOERS.
Location: ON NYS 22 AT MOOERS
SITE OF HOME
BUILT BEFORE 1804
BY JOHN SHEDDEN WHOSE
BARN SHELTERED THE FIRST
QUARTERLY MEETINGS OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Location: ON US 11 AT MOOERS
TOWN OF MOOERS
FORMED BY STATE ACT FROM
CHAMPLAIN MARCH 20, 1804.
FIRST LOG HUT TEN RODS EAST,
ALSO FIRST GRIST AND SAW MILLS
Location: ON NYS 22 AT MOOERS

County: CLINTON
Town: PERU, TOWN, OF

[ARROW]
TO SITE OF PERU
BLOCKHOUSE
ONE OF FIVE ERECTED IN
NORTHERN NEW YORK IN 1794
AS A REFUGE FOR SETTLERS
FROM INDIAN ATTACKS
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF PERU

County: CLINTON
Town: PLATTSBURGH, CITY OF

A BLOCKHOUSE
USED BY AMERICAN ARMY
DURING BATTLE ON PLATTSBURGH
STOOD HERE IN 1814
Location: ON HAMILTON ST.
BRITISH HOSPITAL
THE BRITISH ARMY USED
THE BASEMENT OF THIS
HOUSE FOR A HOSPITAL
DURING BATTLE OF PLATTSBURG
SEPTEMBER, 1814
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF OAK & COURT STS.
FIRST BUILDING
ERECTED IN THIS SETTLEMENT
STOOD HERE IN 1767.
IT WAS THE HOME OF
COUNT CHARLES DE FREDENBURGH
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF BRIDGE AND CHARLOTTE STS.
HEADQUARTERS
BRITISH OFFICERS
DURING BATTLE OF
PLATTSBURG, SEPTEMBER, 1814
Location: AT INTERSECTION, CORNELIA ST. AND CUMBERLAND AVE.
OLD MILITARY
TURNPIKE
PLATTSBURG TO HOPKINTON
VIA ELLENBURG, CHATEAUGAY
MALONE. BEGUN BY ILITARY
LABOR 1817. COMPLETED 1826
Location: ON CORNELIA ST. AT CITY LINE
SITE OF HOME
ZEPHANIAH PLATT
1735-1807
FOUNDER OF PLATTSBURG
BUILT IN 1799
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF HAMILTON AND JAY STS.

County: CLINTON
Town: PLATTSBURGH, TOWN OF

BAKER
BURYING GROUND
HERE LIE SIX REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIERS AND MANY PIONEERS
OF CLINTON COUNTY
Location: ON NYS 3 ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF WEST PLATTSBURGH
HOME OF
GENERAL BENJAMIN
MOOERS
1758-1838
VETERAN OF REVOLUTION
AND WAR OF 1812
Location: ON CO. RD. CUMBERLAND HEAD
HOME OF
JOHN ADDAMS
BUILT 1790
MAJOR AND SURVEYOR DURING
ENTIRE PERIOD OF REVOLUTION
Location: ON CO. RD. CUMBERLAND HEAD
MACDONOUGH FARM
PRESENTED TO COMMODORE
THOMAS MACDONOUGH BY
THE STATE OF VERMONT
FOR HIS VICTORY
BATTLE OF PLATTSBURG, 1814
Location: ON CO. RD. ON CUMBERLAND HEAD
OLD MILITARY
TURNPIKE
FORMERLY AN INDIAN TRAIL
IN 1817 MADE A
MILITARY TURNPIKE BY
PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE
Location: ON OLD MILITARY TURNPIKE ABOUT 4 MILES N.W. OF PLATTSBURGH
OLD MILITARY
TURNPIKE
PLATTSBURH TO HOPKINTON
VIA ELLENBURG, CHATEAYGAY
MALONE. BEGUN BY MILITARY
LABOR 1817. COMPLETED 1826
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 3 AND OLD MILITARY TURNPIKE ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF PL
WOOLSEY MANSION
BUILT BEFORE 1800
MELANCTON LLOYD WOOLSEY
1758-1819
FIRST COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS
FIRST COUNTY CLERK
Location: ON CO. RD. ON CUMBERLAND HEAD

County: COLUMBIA
Town: ANCRAM, TOWN OF

ANCRAM
COPAKE LINE
ANCRAM FORMED AS GALLATIN
1803. NAME CHANGED 1814
DIVIDED 1830. COPAKE
FORMED FROM TAGHKANIC 1824
Location: COUNTY RD., W. COPAKE TO ANCRAM
SITE OF
IRON WORKS
FIRST IN COLONY OF NEW YORK,
HAD 4 FORGES. FOUNDED BY
ROBERT LIVINGSTON 1748.
DEMOLISHED 1854
Location: NYS 82 IN ANCRAM
SITE OF
LEAD MINES
ORE DISCOVERED BY MR. KEEFER.
LIVINGSTON BOUGHT LEASE 1827
OPERATED TO 1837. OTHERS
OPERATED TO 1866
Location: NYS 82 IN ANCRAMDALE
TOWN AND COUNTY LINE
PINE PLAINS, DUTCHES COUNTY,
ORG'D 1823; PART OF NORTHEAST
1788, PART LITTLE NINE
PARTNERS 1706. ANCRAM,
COLUMBIA COUNTY FORMED 1814.
Location: NYS 82 AT CO. LINE BETWEEN ANCRAMDALE & PULVERS CORNERS
TOWN OF ANCRAM
NAMED IN HONOR OF THE
ANCESTRAL HOME OF THE
LIVINGSTONS AT TEVIOTDALE
ROXBURGHSHIRE, SCOTLAND
Location: NYS 82 IN ANCRAM

County: COLUMBIA
Town: AUSTERLITZ, TOWN OF

SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY
1847
TIMOTHY WOODBRIDGE D.D.,
FIRST PRESIDENT
USED CONTINUOUSLY AS SCHOOL
HOUSE SINCE ERECTION
Location: NYS 203 IN SPENCERTOWN

County: COLUMBIA
Town: CANAAN, TOWN OF

DOUGLAS HOUSE
HOME OF ASA DOUGLAS. NOTED
RESORT OF WHIGS DURING THE
REVOLUTION. GARRET USED
TO CONFINE TORY NEIGHBORS.
Location: CO. RD., N. OF CANAAN CORNERS
JASON WARNER HOUSE
MANY OF SCENES IN "WIDE WIDE
WORLD" AND "QUEECHY" WERE LAID
IN AND AROUND THIS HOUSE WHERE
SUSAN AND ANNA WARNER, NOTED
AMERICAN AUTHORS, SPENT
SEVERAL SUMMERS
Location: ON PAPER MILL HILL RD., S. OF QUEECHY
RED ROCK
SETTLED IN 1750
FORMERLY KNOWN
AS PILFERSHIRE
Location: CO. RD. AT RED ROCK
SITE OF GRIST MILL
BUILT BY COL. WILLIAM B.
WHITING. BURNED DURING THE
REVOLUTION BY TORIES, WHEN
FILLED WITH GOVERMENT GRAIN.
REBUILT LATER.
Location: NYS 295 NEAR QUEECHY LAKE

County: COLUMBIA
Town: CHATHAM, TOWN OF

FRIENDS
MEETING HOUSE
BUILT IN 1777 AT RAYVILLE
FIRST IN COLUMBIA COUNTY
Location: CO. RD. AT RAYVILLE
GROAT'S TAVERN
FIRST BUILDING ERECTED IN
CHATHAM - BUILT BY WILLIAM
THOMAS IN 1811 - CHATHAM WAS
FIRST CALLED GROAT'S CORNERS
Location: NYS 66 IN CHATHAM
HOME OF
ABRAHAM VAN NESS
OFFICER IN REVOLUTION
WHO WAS SHOT ON BRIDGE
BY TORIES IN AUGUST, 1777
Location: NYS 66 S. OF MALDEN BRIDGE
VAN ALSTYNE HOUSE
REPUTED TO HAVE BEEN
USED AS A FORT
DURING REVOLUTION
Location: CO. RD. E. OF CHATHAM CTR.

County: COLUMBIA
Town: CLAVERACK, TOWN OF

BRICK HOUSE
BUILT 1804
BY DR. THOMAS BRODHEAD
THE BRICKS WERE MADE HERE
BY CLAY KNEADED BY CATTLE
BEING DRIVEN OVER IT.
Location: US 9, NORTH OF CLERMONT
CLAVERACK-GHENT LINE
CLAVERACK A DISTRICT 1772,
TOWN 1788. HILLSDALE TAKEN
OFF 1782, HUDSON 1785. GHENT
FORMED FROM PARTS OF CHATHAM,
CLAVERACK, KINDERHOOK 1818.
Location: NYS 66, WEST OF NYS 9H
CLERMONT
POST-OFFICE
ESTABLISHED IN 1791. ONE
OF THE FIRST HUNDRED
POST OFFICES IN THE U.S.
Location: US 9, IN CLERMONT
NEW YORK'S FIRST
PUBLIC SCHOOL
WAS ESTABLISHED AT CLERMONT
IN 1791
Location: US 9, IN CLERMONT
POST ROAD - 1772
ALBANY TO NEW YORK. WEEKLY
MAIL SERVICE ESTABLISHED
ON HORSEBACK. PASSENGER
SERVICE BY COVERED WAGONS
AND FOUR HORSES IN 1786.
Location: NYS 9H N.E. OF JUNCT. WITH NYS 66
SITE OF TOLLGATE
OF THE
HIGHLAND TURNPIKE COMPANY
Location: US 9, SOUTH OF CLERMONT
THE ACADEMY
BUILT IN 1834
AS A SEMINARY OF LEARNING
THE LAND WAS GIVEN BY
EDWARD P. LIVINGSTON
Location: US 9, IN CLERMONT

County: COLUMBIA
Town: CLERMONT, TOWN OF

CLERMONT
BUILT 1730, ON LIVINGSTON
MANOR. HOME OF CHANCELLOR
LIVINGSTON, ONE OF THE FIVE
DRAFTERS OF THE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE.
Location: CO. RD., WEST OF NYS 9G
CLERMONT
BUILT 1730, ON LIVINGSTON
MANOR. HOME OF CHANCELLOR
LIVINGSTON, ONE OF THE FIVE
DRAFTERS OF THE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE.
Location: WEST OF CO. RD., N. OF TIVOLI
CLERMONT
BUILT 1730, ON LIVINGSTON
MANOR. HOME OF CHANCELLOR
LIVINGSTON, ONE OF THE FIVE
DRAFTERS OF THE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE.
Location: NYS 9G, NORTH OF TIVOLI

County: COLUMBIA
Town: COPAKE, TOWN OF

COPAKE-HILLSDALE LINE
COPAKE PART OF GRANGER 1803,
FORMED FROM TAGHKANIC 1824.
HILLSDALE FORMED FROM
CLAVERACK AS DISTRICT 1782,
TOWN 1786.
Location: NYS 22, S. OF HILLSDALE
FARM OF
HANS CHRYSLER
FOR WHOM CHRYSLER POND WAS
NAMED. HOME OF AMY MARIAH
CHRYSLER, BORN 1770
Location: CO. RD., N. OF CHRYSLER POND

County: COLUMBIA
Town: GALLATIN, TOWN OF

CHURCH CEMETERY
CONNECTED WITH REFORMED
PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH
KNOWN AS STISSICK, GALLATIN,
ANCRAM, GREENBUSH AND VEDDER
CHURCH, OLDEST STONE 1770
Location: CO. RD., S. OF SPAULDING FURNACE
DINGS CEMETERY
OLDEST CEMETERY IN GALLATIN
PRIVATE FOR DINGS FAMILY
BEFORE 1748
Location: AT SILVERNAILS
GALLATIN-ANCRAM
TOWN LINE
GALLATIN AND ANCRAM
ORGANIZED AS GALLATIN 1803;
NAME CHANGED TO ANCRAM 1814
SEPARATED 1830
Location: NYS 82 WEST OF ANCRAM
GALLATIN-LIVINGSTON
TOWN LINE
GALLATIN ORGANIZED FROM
LIVINGSTON 1803. LIVINGSTON
A MANOR 1686; A DISTRICT 1772;
A TOWN 1788, INCLUDING GALLATIN,
ANCRAM, TAGHKANIC AND COPAKE
Location: CO. RD., N. OF ELIZAVILLE
GALLATIN-MILAN
TOWN LINE
DIVIDING GALLATIN, COLUMBIA
COUNTY, ORGANIZED 1803, FROM
MILAN, DUTCHESS COUNTY
ORGANIZED 1818
Location: CO. RD., E. OF ELIZAVILLE
GALLATIN-TAGHKANIC
TOWN LINE
GALLATIN ORGANIZED 1803 AND
INCLUDED ANCRAM.
TAGHKANIC ORGANIZED 1803 AS
GRANGER AND INCLUDED COPAKE.
BOTH TAKEN FROM LIVINGSTON
Location: NYS 82 AT ENTRANCE TO LAKE TAGHKANIC STATE PARK
GALLATINVILLE
NAMED FOR HONORABLE
ABRAHAM A. A. GALLATIN.
B. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 1761
D. NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., 1849
SECRETARY OF TREASURY 1801-1813
Location: AT GALLATINVILLE
HISTORIC FARM
REV. HERMAN VEDDER
IN FAMILY SINCE MAY 1, 1804,
LIFE LEASE FROM JOHN LIVINGSTON.
"SHALL MINISTER & PREACH
GOSPEL IN GREENBUSH CHURCH"
Location: CO. RD., N. OF MT. ROSE
JANSEN KILL
CHECOMINGO KILL
FIRST NAMED AFTER ROELIFF
JANSEN, OVERSEER OF THE
ORPHAN CHAMBER OF THE
CHECOMINGO INDIAN TRIBE
Location: E. OF BRIDGE, E. OF SILVERNAILS
LASHER HOUSE
OLDEST PART BUILT
ABOUT 1770
IN POSSESSION OF
LASHER FAMILY
UNTIL 1910
Location: CO. RD., ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. S. OF SUYDAM
OLD TURNPIKE
THE OLD ROAD FROM THE
HUDSON RIVER THROUGH
ANCARAM TO SALISBURY
CONNECTICUT
Location: NYS 82 AT SUYDAM
OLD TURNPIKE
ROAD TO NOBLETOWN,
ANCRAM AND BARRINGTON.
Location: CO. RD. AT SPAULDING FURANCE
SIGNAL ROCK
USED BY INDIANS FOR FIRES.
FIRES BUILT ON THIS ROCK
COULD BE SEEN FOR MANY MILES.
CALLED GREEN HILL INDIAN
SIGNAL ROCK.
Location: 2 1/2 MIS. W. OF CO. RD., SUYDAM TO SPAULDING FURNACE
SITE OF
PLOW FURNACE
ESTABLISHED 1840 BY MOSES
SPAULDING ON SPAULDING
CREEK. ABANDONED 1910.
Location: CO. RD. AT SPAULDING FURANCE
SITE OF
MANNESSAH HOME
PRINCE QUACK MANNESSAH OF
THE MOHICAN SHACOMECO CLAN
WAS THE LAST KNOWN INDIAN
RESIDENT OF GALLATIN
Location: SILVERNAILS-PINE PLAINS RD.
SITE OF
DINGS HOUSE
HOME OF HANS DINGS,
ONE OF FIRST SETTLERS OF
GALLATIN, N.Y. BEFORE 1748.
LEASED FROM LIVINGSTON
Location: AT SILVERNAILS
SITE OF
FIRST SUYDAM
SCHOOL HOUSE
BURNED OCT. 1918. LAND
DONATED BY JACOB SUYDAM
ABOUT 1800
Location: NYS 82 AT SUYDAM
STAGE INN
J. SUYDAM'S HOTEL, 1798-1822;
DR. C. SUYDAM'S OFFICE
1798-1822; J. SUYDAM JR'S
HOTEL, 1822-49; SUYDAM
POST OFFICE UNTIL 1906
Location: NYS 82, WEST OF SUYDAM
TOWN AND
COUNTY LINE
GALLATIN, COLUMBIA COUNTY
PINE PLAINS, DUTCHESS COUNTY
GALLATIN ORGANIZED 1803
PINE PLAINS ORGANIZED 1823
Location: SILVERNAILS-PINE PLAINS RD.
TOWN AND
COUNTY LINE
GALLATIN, COLUMBIA COUNTY
PINE PLAINS, DUTCHESS COUNTY
GALLATIN ORGANIZED 1803
PINE PLAINS ORGANIZED 1823
Location: CO. RD., W. OF JACKSON'S CRNRS.
TRAINING GROUND
FOR NEW YORK STATE MILITIA
OF THE GALLATIN DISTRICT.
JEREMIAH CRONK, FIFER, 1812
Location: W. OF BRIDGE AT SILVERNAILS

County: COLUMBIA
Town: GERMANTOWN, TOWN OF

FIRST
REFORMED CHURCH
OF THE PROTESTANT DUTCH IN
GERMANTOWN. ERECTED IN 1728
AND WAS LOCATED 500 FT.
WEST OF THIS POINT.
Location: NYS 9G, S. OF N. GERMANTOWN
FIRST
SCHOOLHOUSE
IN GERMANTOWN. BUILT BY
PALATINES IN 1711. LOCATED
JUST WEST OF THIS POINT
Location: CO. RD. S. OF GERMANTOWN
ROCKEFELLER
HOME
HOME OF SIMEON, SON OF
DIELL ROCKEFELLER WHO
LANDED AT EAST CAMP, 1733
Location: CO. RD., E. OF GERMANTOWN
SHARPS LANDING
ACTIVE IN TRADING
IN 1684
Location: NYS 9G, S. OF N. GERMANTOWN
SITE OF
THE SECOND
REFORMED CHURCH
OF GERMANTOWN. BUILT
HERE IN 1814
Location: CO. RD., E. OF GERMANTOWN
SITE OF
GRIST AND
SAW MILL
ERECTED BY DIELL
ROCKEFELLER IN 1751
Location: CO. RD. FROM GERMANTOWN, WEST OF NYS 9G
SITE OF
FIRST
LUTHERAN CHURCH
IN GERMANTOWN. ERECTED IN 1710
Location: NYS 9G, S. OF N. GERMANTOWN
THIRD
LUTHERAN CHURCH
OF GERMANTOWN BUILT
HERE IN 1812
Location: CO. RD., N. OF VIEWMONTE

County: COLUMBIA
Town: GHENT, TOWN OF

LOUIS FRISBEE PAYN
U.S. MARSHALL, SUPT. OF
INSURANCE AND FOR 68 YEARS
LEADER OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY IN COLUMBIA CO. WAS
BORN HERE JAN. 27, 1835
Location: NYS 66, 3 MIS. S. OF GHENT

County: COLUMBIA
Town: GREENPORT, TOWN OF

COLUMBIA COUNTY
SEPARATED FROM ALBANY CO.
APRIL 4, 1786. NAME FROM
COLUMBUS, DISCOVERER OF
AMERICA
Location: NYS 9G AT S. APPROACH TO RIP VAN WINKLE BRIDGE

County: COLUMBIA
Town: HUDSON, CITY OF

"PARADE HILL"
GRANTED TO COMMON COUNCIL
ON MARCH 9, 1795
FOR A PUBLIC WALK OR MALL
GRANTED BY "PROPRIETORS,
SETTLERS OF HUDSON
Location: PARK AT FOOT OF WARREN ST.
GEN. WORTH HOUSE
HERE ON MARCH 1, 1794, WM. J.
WORTH, A MAJOR-GENERAL IN THE
MEXICAN WAR, WAS BORN. DIED
AT SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 1849
Location: AT 211 UNION ST.
SITE OF
TWO DWELLINGS
FIRST IN LHUDSON. ERECTED
IN 1783. PROPRIETORS HELD
FIRST MEETING IN JENKINS
HOME HERE. BURNED 1838
Location: IN CITY PARK, FRONT ST.
SITE OF CITY HALL
FIRST IN HUDSON. BEGUN 1786;
COMPLETED 1804. USED AS A
COURT HOUSE IN 1805. FIRST
COURT HELD JAN. 1806. SOLD
TO THIS CHURCH IN 1835
Location: WARREN & SOUTH 4TH STS.
THIS BUILDING
BUILT FOR A JAIL IN 1805.
CHANGED TO A CITY HALL IN 1835.
IN 1855, BECAME "DAVIS HALL"
A THEATER. SINCE 1862 IT HAS
BEEN A PRINTING SHOP.
Location: WARREN & NORTH 4TH STS.

County: COLUMBIA
Town: KINDERHOOK, TOWN OF

APPROACHING
LINDENWALD
HOME OF PRESIDENT
MARTIN VAN BUREN. 1841-62
Location: W. OF NYS 9H, S. OF LINDENWALD
APPROACHING
LINDENWALD
HOME OF PRESIDENT
MARTIN VAN BUREN. 1841-62
Location: W. OF NYS 9H, N. OF LINDENWALD
COLUMBIA COUNTY
SEPARATED FROM ALBANY CO.
APRIL 4, 1786. NAME FROM
COLUMBUS, DISCOVERER OF
AMERICA
Location: US 9 AT COLUMBIA-RENSSELAER LINE
GEN. JOHN BURGOYNE
AS PRISONER OF WAR WAS
ENTERTAINED IN THIS HOUSE
ON NIGHT OF OCTOBER 22,
1777 WHILE BEING TAKEN FROM
BATTLE OF SARATOGA TO BOSTON
Location: BROAD NEAR CHURCH ST., KINDERHOOK
LINDENWALD
HOME OF PRESIDENT
MARTIN VAN BUREN, 1841-62
BUILT IN 1797
BY PETER VAN NESS
Location: W. OF NYS 9H, 1 1/2 MIS. S. OF ROAD TO KINDERHOOK
OLD COLUMBIA
ACADEMY
EARLY DUTCH SCHOOL
INCORPORATED MARCH 13, 1797
BECAME KINDERHOOK ACADEMY
APRIL 3, 1824
Location: ON ALBANY ST., KINDERHOOK
POST ROAD - 1772
ALBANY TO NEW YORK. WEEKLY
MAIL SERVICE ESTABLISHED
ON HORSEBACK. PASSENGER
SERVICE TO COVERED WAGONS
AND FOUR HORSES IN 1786
Location: NYS 9H, E. OF KINDERHOOK
QUACKENBOSS TAVERN
HERE IN 1753 FOR TWO MONTHS
SAT COMMISSIONERS TO
DIVIDE GREAT KINDERHOOK
PATENT OF 1686. MARTIN
VAN BUREN LATER TRIED
A LAW CASE HERE.
Location: AT JUNCTION, US 9 & NYS 9H
REFORMED
DUTCH CHURCH
ORGANIZED IN 1712
SIXTH CHURCH BETWEEN
NEW YORK AND ALBANY
Location: BROAD & CHURCH STS., KINDERHOOK
SITE OF
ICHABOD CRANE
SCHOOLHOUSE
WASHINGTON IRVING VISITED
HERE WHEN THE SCHOOL WAS
TAUGHT BY JESSE MERWIN
Location: NYS 9H, 1 1/4 S. OF ROAD TO KINDERHOOK
VAN ALEN
HOMESTEAD
ERECTED IN 1736
KATRINA VAN TASSEL
RESIDED IN THIS HOUSE
ACCORDING TO TRADITION
Location: NYS 9H, 7 MIS. S. OF ROAD TO KINDERHOOK

County: COLUMBIA
Town: LIVINGSTON, TOWN OF

"THE HILL"
BUILT IN 1801 BY HENRY
WALTER LIVINGSTON, WHO
DIED HERE IN 1810
Location: CO. RD., EAST OF NYS 82
"WAGGON PATH
YT LEADETH FROM YE
MANOR HOUSE"
Location: E. OF NYS 9G ON CO. RD., LINLITHGO TO BLUE STORES
1714
"THE KINGS HIE WAY
YT LEADETH FROM THE
MANOR HOUSE TO
TAHKANICK"
Location: CO. RD., AT LINLITHGO
BINGHAM'S MILLS
NAMED FOR CHARLES BINGHAM.
FORMERLY BAKER'S MILLS. 20
DWELLINGS, M.E. CHAPEL, 2
MILLS, BLACKSMITH SHOP AND
WOOLEN FACTORY
Location: S. OF CO. RD., W. OF BLUE STORES AT BINGHAM'S MILLS
BURDEN
HUDSON RIVER ORE & IRON CO.
1875-1898 IRON MINES EMPLOYED
550 MEN; 1200 TONS ORE MINED
DAILY. 1000 ACRES LAND OWNED.
STORE, MACHINE SHOP, 60 HOUSES.
Location: CO. RD. AT BURDEN
CALENDAR HOUSE
BUILT BY SAMUEL TEN BROEK
IN 1773. LATER PURCHASED
BY GEN. HARRY LIVINGSTON
WHOSE DESCENDANTS HELD
IT UNTIL 1861
Location: CO. RD., 1/2 MI. S. OF MANORTON
GLENCO MILLS
WAS ESTABLISHED AS
POST OFFICE IN 1856
HENRY P. HEERMANCE,
POSTMASTER
Location: OLD NYS 82 AT GLENCOE MILLS
HIGHLAND TURNPIKE
INCORPORATED IN 1804.
AN EARLY ROAD.
Location: US 9 AT BLUE STORES
JOHNSTON
NAMED FOR JOHN LIVINGSTON,RO
SETTLER. LIVINGSTON POST
OFFICE 1805. HAD A
REVOLUTIONARY STAGE INN AND
LINLITHGO REFORMED CHURCH.
Location: MAIN ST., IN LIVINGSTON
LAND MARKER
DIVIDING INHERITANCES OF
ROBERT C. AND HENRY
LIVINGSTON FROM 3RD PRO-
PRIETOR OF THE MANOR 1792.
TWIN MARKER AT BLUE STORES
Location: E. OF MAIN ST., LIVINGSTON
LAND MARKER
DIVIDING INHERITANCES OF
ROBERT C. AND HENRY
LIVINGSTON FROM 3RD PRO-
PRIETOR OF THE MANOR 1792.
TWIN MARKER AT LIVINGSTON.
Location: W. OF US 9 AT BLUE STORES
LINE HOUSE
TAVERN AND STAGE INN
BEFORE 1790.
JOHN MANNY
FIRST PROPRIETOR
Location: AT ELIZAVILLE
LIVINGSTON
THE PRESENT VILLAGE OF
LIVINGSTON WAS FORMERLY
CALLED JOHNSTOWN
AFTER JOHN LIVINGSTON
Location: MAIN ST., IN LIVINGSTON
LIVINGSTON-CLAVERACK LINE
BOTH DISTRICTS 1772, TOWNS
1788. LIVINGSTON INCLUDED
CLERMONT, GALLATIN, GRANGER.
CLAVERACK INCLUDED HUDSON,
HILLSDALE, PART OF GHENT.
Location: CO. RD., WEST OF CHURCHTOWN
LIVINGSTON-CLAVERACK LINE
BOTH DISTRICTS 1772, TOWNS
1788. LIVINGSTON INCLUDED
CLERMONT, GALLATIN, GRANGER.
CLAVERACK INCLUDED HUDSON,
HILLSDALE, PART OF GHENT.
Location: CO. RD., WEST OF CHURCHTOWN
LIVINGSTON-CLAVERACK LINE
BOTH DISTRICTS 1772, TOWNS
1788. LIVINGSTON INCLUDED
CLERMONT, GALLATIN, GRANGER.
CLAVERACK INCLUDED HUDSON,
HILLSDALE, PART OF GHENT.
Location: CO. RD., EAST OF BELL'S POND
LIVINGSTON-CLERMONT LINE
LIVINGSTON A MANOR 1686,
DISTRICT 1772; INCLUDED
ANCRAM, CLERMONT, COPAKE
GALLATIN, GERMANTOWN,
TAGHKANIC. TOWN 1788.
Location: CO. RD., E. OF ELIZAVILLE
LIVINGSTON-CLERMONT LINE
LIVINGSTON A MANOR 1686,
DISTRICT 1772, INCLUDED
ANCRAM, CLERMONT, COPKAE,
GALLATIN, GERMANTOWN,
TAGHKANIC. TOWN 1788.
Location: CO. RD., W. OF ELIZAVILLE
LIVINGSTON-GERMANTOWN LINE
BOTH TOWNS 1788. LIVINGSTON
A MANOR 1686, DISTRICT 1772,
INCLUDED CLERMONT, GALLATIN,
GRANGER. GERMANTOWN A DIST.
1775; PART OF CLERMONT
ADDED IN 1858
Location: NYS 9G, N. OF BRIDGE
LIVINGSTON-GREENPORT LINE
LIVINGSTON A MANOR 1686, A
DIST. 1772, INCLUDED ANCRAM,
TAGHKANIC, GALLATIN, COPAKE,
CLERMONT. TOWN 1788. IN 1837
GREENPORT FORMED FROM HUDSON
Location: US 9 AT RACE PLACE
MEMORIAL CHAPEL
BUILT IN 1780 ON SITE OF
EARLIER CHURCH. COVERS
OLD CRYPT WHICH IS THE
BURIAL PLACE OF GENERATIONS
OF LIVINGSTONS.
Location: CO. RD., E. AT LINLITHGO
OAK HILL
BUILT IN 1793 BY JOHN
LIVINGSTON, SON OF THE 3RD
PROPRIETOR, AND HOME OF
SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS
OF THE FAMILY.
Location: W. OF NYS 9G, RD. TO GREENDALE
OLD ROAD HOUSE
BUILT IN 1803.
THE STAGE-COACH STOPPED
HERE ON TRIPS OVER THE
HIGHLAND TURNPIKE
Location: CO. RD., S. OF BURDEN
POST ROAD - 1772
ALBANY TO NEW YORK. WEEKLY
MAIL SERVICE ESTABLISHED
ON HORSEBACK. PASSENGER
SERVICE BY COVERED WAGONS
AND FOUR HORSES IN 1786
Location: US 9, S. OF BLUE STORES
SITE OF
"LINLITHGO MILLS"
GRIST MILLS BUILT 1780 BY
ROBERT LIVINGSTON. NAMED BY S.
FOX OF FOX'S HOSIERY
FACTORY AND GRIST MILLS.
Location: CO. RD., BELL'S POND
SITE OF
GOOD HOPE MILLS
GRIST MILLS ERECTED BY THE
LIVINGSTONS PRIOR TO 1780.
MACHINERY REMOVED 1896.
C.E. BINGHAM LAST OPERATOR
Location: S. OF CO. RD., W. OF BLUE STORES AT BINGHAM'S MILLS
TEVIOTDALE
BUILT ABOUT 1773 LIVINGSTON-
FULTON HOUSE HOME ON HON.
WALTER LIVINGSTON AND OF
SON-IN-LAW ROBERT FULTON
Location: CO. RD., E. OF LINLITHGO
THE HERMITAGE
BEGUN BY PETER R. LIVINGSTON
DURING THE REVOLUTION AND
NEVER FINISHED. LOCATED ABOUT
A MILE DOWN THIS LANE ON
ROELOFF JANSEN'S KILL
Location: OFF CO. RD., BURDEN TO BLUE STORES
TOWN OF
LIVINGSTON - 1788
CONTAINED BAKERS MILLS,
BLUE STORES, BURDEN,
ELIZAVILLE, GLENCO MILLS,
LINLITHGO, AND WALKER'S MILLS.
Location: MAIN ST., IN LIVINGSTON
UNION CORNERS
IN TOWNS OF GALLATIN
AND LIVINGSTON. SETTLED BEFORE
1790. POST OFFICE
ESTABLISHED 1840. NAMED FROM
UNION CORNERS HOUSE, A TAVERN.
Location: AT ELIZAVILLE

County: COLUMBIA
Town: NEW LEBANON, TOWN OF

BOOGE-TORREY HOUSE
BUILT BY ABNER SHUMWAY 1786 HOME OF
ARRON JORDON BOOGE 1801-26 PREPARED
YOUNG MEN FOR YALE AND SERVED AS
CHAPLAIN IN WAR OF 1812 HERE FOR A
CENTURY LIVED JESSE TORREY'S FAMILY
Location: CO. RD., N. OF NEW LEBANON
COLUMBIA COUNTY
SEPARATED FROM ALBANY CO.
APRIL 4, 1786. NAME
FROM COLUMBUS, DISCOVERER
OF AMERICA
Location: NYS 22, COLUMBIA-RENSSELAER LINE
COLUMBIA COUNTY
SEPARATED FROM ALBANY CO.
APRIL 4, 1786. NAME
FROM COLUMBUS, DISCOVERER
OF AMERICA
Location: US 20 AT COLUMBIA-RENSSELAER LINE
GILBERT HOUSE
BUILT IN 1780 BY MAJOR
ELISHA GILBERT 1749-1823
CONTAINS UNIQUE EXAMPLE
DECORATED MASONIC MEETING
ROOM
Location: US 20, W. OF NEW LEBANON CENTER
HOUSE BUILT 1800
BY COL. JONATHAN MURDOCK
1758-1832.
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
THE ORIGINAL MURDOCK HOUSE
STOOD ABOVE THE ROAD
TO THE SOUTHWEST
Location: CO. RD., N. OF NEW LEBANON
KENDALL SHOP
FIRST THERMOMETERS
MADE IN THE UNITED
STATES PRODUCED ON
THIS SITE
Location: US 20 & NYS 22, NEW LEBANON
NEW YORK STATE
EXPLORED BY DUTCH, 1609;
SETTLED BY DUTCH, 1624;
UNDER ENGLISH RULE AFTER
1664. NAMED FOR DUKE OF
YORK, LATER KING JAMES II
Location: US 20, W. OF N.Y.-MASS. LINE
SITE OF FIRST
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
ESTABLISHED MARCH 12, 1804, BY
DR. JESSE TORREY, FATHER OF THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY MOVEMENT OF AMERICA
Location: NYS 22, IN NEW LEBANON

County: COLUMBIA
Town: STOCKPORT, TOWN OF

CHITTENDEN
HOLLOW
ON WEST SIDE OF FALLS. HERE
GEORGE CHITTENDEN BUILT 2ND
COTTONMILL IN THE COUNTY
LATER CALLED ROSSMAN MILLS
Location: CO. RD.,SE OF BRIDGE AT CHITTENDEN FALLS
CHITTENDEN FALLS
ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE FALLS
GEORGE CHITTENDEN BUILT THE
SECOND PAPER MILL IN THE
COUNTY LATER CALLED ROSSMANS
Location: NYS 9H, NW OF BRIDGE AT ROSSMANS
COLUMBIAVILLE
INCORPORATED 1812; ACT
REPEALED 1833. IN 1813
HAD COTTON FACTORY, SAW
MILLS, PAPER MILLS,
AND GRIST MILLS.
Location: US 9, N. OF BRIDGE
COLUMBIAVILLE
FALLS
IN 1800 SLOOPS CAME AS
FAR AS THESE FALLS FROM
THE HUDSON RIVER
Location: US 9, S. OF BRIDGE
COLUMBIAVILLE
BRIDGE
IN 1870 THE IRON BRIDGE
245 FT. LONG, BUILT HERE,
WAS THE LONGEST SINGLE SPAN
ROAD BRIDGE IN N.Y. STATE
Location: US 9, S. OF BRIDGE
STAATS HOUSE
BUILT BY COL. ABRAM STATS
BETWEEN 1654-1664
HENRY HUDSON LANDED
HERE SEPTEMBER 17, 1609
IN SAILING UP HUDSON RIVER
Location: CO. RD., 1 1/2 MI. W. OF US 9
STOCKPORT CREEK
FOR GENERATIONS KNOWN AS
ABRAM'S CREEK. FORMED AT
STOCKPORT BY UNION OF
KINDERHOOK AND CLAVERACK
CREEKS
Location: CO. RD., N. OF BRIDGE AT STOCKPORT
STOCKPORT-GREENPORT LINE
STOCKPORT FORMED FROM PARTS
OF HUDSON, GHENT AND
STUYVESANT IN 1833.
GREENPORT FORMED FROM
HUDSON CITY IN 1837
Location: US 9 AT TOWN LINE
STOCKPORT-STUYVESANT LINE
STOCKPORT FORMED FROM PARTS
OF HUDSON, GHENT, STUYVESANT,
1833. STUYVESANT FORMED FROM
KINDERHOOK 1823.
Location: NYS 9J AT TOWN LINE
STOCKPORT-STUYVESANT LINE
STOCKPORT FORMED FROM PARTS
OF HUDSON, GHENT, STUYVESANT,
1833. STUYVESANT FORMED FROM
KINDERHOOK 1823.
Location: US 9 AT TOWN LINE
TOWN OF
STOCKPORT
NAMED FROM STOCKPORT, ENG.,
FORMER HOME OF JAMES WILD,
PROPRIETOR OF MILLS AT
COLUMBIAVILLE IN 1812
Location: CO. RD.,W. OF US 9 AT COLUMBIAVILLE

County: COLUMBIA
Town: STUYVESANT, TOWN OF

BENJAMIN F. BUTLER
BORN HERE 1795 - DIED 1858
A REVISER OF STATE LAWS;
REGENT 1829-32; ATTORNEY
GENERAL U.S. 1833-38;
ACTING SEC. OF WAR 1836-37
Location: NYS 9J, S. OF STUYVESANT
CLOTH MILL
BUILT BY WILLIAM VAN HOESEN
IN 1800. LOCATED WHERE
POWER HOUSE STANDS
Location: CO. RD., E. OF BRIDGE AT STUYVESANT FALLS
COLUMBIA COUNTY
SEPARATED FROM ALBANY CO.
APRIL 4, 1786. NAME
FROM COLUMBUS, DISCOVERER
OF AMERICA
Location: NYS 9J, NEAR SCHODACK LANDING
HENRY
VAN SCHAACK
DIED HERE IN 1823.
BUILT THESE TWO HOUSES. WAS
ON FIRST BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
Location: NYS 9J, AT STUYVESANT
HENRY HUDSON
LANDED HERE SEPT. 19. 1609
AND WAS ENTERTAINED BY
INDIANS WHO ENCAMPED HERE
CALLED KINDERHOOK.
Location: NYS 9J, N. OF STUYVESANT
NUTTEN HOOKE
GRANTED TO ARENT VAN DEN
BERGH 1666. SOLD TO HANS
HENDRICKSEN IN 1667. OLD
"FISH PLACE" 1 1/2 MI. SOUTH
Location: NYS 9J, AT NEWTON HOOK
POWELL PATENT
1664
DIRECTLY EAST TO CREEK
MARKS SOUTHEAST
POINT OF GRANT
Location: EAST OF US 9, TO SUNNYSIDE
POWELL PATENT
1664
THE SOUTHWEST POINT OF
THE GRANT IS NORTH OF
"SWARTE HOOCK"
Location: NYS 9J, S. OF STUYVESANT
POWELL PATENT
1664
THIS MARKS THE NORTHWEST
POINT OF THIS EARLY GRANT
Location: NYS 9J, N. OF STUYVESANT
PRIOR TO 1667
KNOWN AS "MAJOR ABRAM'S
(STAATS) KILL" AND "THIRD
FALLS." IN 1823 CALLED
"STUYVESANT FALLS" AND AFTER
1845 "KINDERHOOK CREEK"
Location: CO. RD., W. OF BRIDGE AT STUYVESANT FALLS
SITE OF BIRTHPLACE
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN WOODWARD
PHILIP U.S.N., 1840-1900,
GRADUATE OF NAVAL ACADEMY
WHO COMMANDED THE "TEXAS" IN
BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, 1898
Location: NW OF KINDERHOOK, NEAR EICKYBUSH
STUYVESANT
LANDING
SET OFF FROM TOWN OF
KINDERHOOK 1823.
NOW PART OF THE TOWN
OF STUYVESANT.
Location: NYS 9J & NYS 398 AT STUYVESANT
UPPER FALLS
1ST PAPER MILL IN COLUMBIA
COUNTY. BUILT BY PITKINS AND
EDMUNDS ON THE SITE OF AN
OLD GRIST MILL. BUILT IN 1800
Location: CO. RD., W. OF BRIDGE AT STUYVESANT FALLS

County: COLUMBIA
Town: TAGHKANIC, TOWN OF

SITE OF
MARYBURGH FORGES
ESTABLISHED BEFORE 1700
BY THE LIVINGSTONS.
ABANDONED BEFORE 1798
Location: ON TOWN RD., 1/8 MI. N. OF NYS 82 AND SUYDAM
SITE OF
NEW FORGE
IRON WORKS 1770-1790
GRIST, FEED AND PLASTER
MILLS, BLACKSMITH SHOP,
STORE, DWELLINGS, 1800-1876
Location: TN. RD., NORTH OF SUYDAM
SITE OF
PLOW FURNACE
ESTABLISHED 1830 BY JOHN
C. WHEELER ON CHRYSLER
POND OUTLET. 6 STYLES OF
PLOWS MADE. ABANDONED 1905
Location: CO. RD. W. OF CHRYSLER POND
SITE OF
MILLER'S TAVERN
BUILT BEFORE 1770 BY WM.
ROCKEFELLER, JONAS I. MILLER
PROPRIETOR FOR MANY YEARS
FIRST TOWN MEETING HERE 1803
Location: NYS 82. AT W. TAGHKANIC
SITE OF
TAGHKANIC HAMLET
INCLUDED TAVERN BUILT PRIOR
TO 1770, POST OFFICE, STORE,
LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SIX
DWELLINGS
Location: CO. RD., AT TAGHKANIC
TAGHKANIC-CLAVERACK LINE
TAGHKANIC ORGANIZED 1803
AS GRANGER, INCLUDED COPAKE,
CLAVERACK, A DISTRICT 1772.
HILLSDALE REMOVED 1782. HUDSON
1785. ORGANIZED AS TOWN 1788
Location: CO. RD., SOUTH OF CHURCHTOWN
TAGHKANIC-CLAVERACK LINE
TAGHKANIC ORGANIZED 1803
AS GRANGER, INCLUDED COPAKE,
CLAVERACK, A DISTRICT 1772.
HILLSDALE REMOVED 1782. HUDSON
1785. ORGANIZED AS TOWN 1788
Location: CO. RD., NEAR CHURCHTOWN
TAGHKANIC-COPAKE LINE
TAGHKANIC ORGANIZED 1803 AS
GRANGER, INCLUDED COPAKE.
BOTH TAKEN FROM LIVINGSTON.
NAME CHANGED TO TAGHKANIC
1814. COPAKE TAKEN OFF 1824.
Location: NYS 23, W. OF CRARYVILLE
TAGHKANIC-HILLSDALE LINE
TAGHKANIC ORGANIZED 1803
AS GRANGER, INCLUDED COPAKE.
HILLSDALE FORMED FROM
CLAVERACK AS DISTRICT 1782.
ORGANIZED AS TOWN 1788
Location: NYS 23, W. OF CRARYVILLE
TAGHKANIC-LIVINGSTON LINE
TAHJKANIC ORG'D 1803 AS
GRANGER, INCLUDED COPAKE.
LIVINGSTON, A MANOR 1786;
DIST. 1772; TOWN 1788; INCLUDED
GALLATIN, ANCRAM,
TAGHKANIC, COPAKE
Location: NYS 82. NEAR GLENCOE MILLS
TOWN OF
TAGHKANIC
TAGHKANIC ORGANIZED 1803
AS GRANGER. NAME CHANGED
TO TAGHKANIC 1814. COPAKE
TAKEN OFF IN 1824.
Location: NYS 82. AT W. TAGHKANIC

County: CORTLAND
Town: CORTLANDVILLE, TOWN OF

HEADWATERS OF
THE TIOUGHNIOGA RIVER
SITE OF A LARGE INDIAN
VILLAGE. A FAVORITE
STOPPING PLACE OF
EARLY PIONEERS
Location: ON CLINTON AVE. IN CORTLAND
JOHN MILLER
BUILT LOG CABIN HERE
IN 1792. THIS HOUSE
BUILT BY HIS SON
GENERAL DANIEL MILLER
Location: ON NYS 13 NEAR HOMER-CORTLANDVILLE TOWN LINE
LAMONT MEMORIAL
LIBRARY-BOYHOOD HOME OF
DANIEL S. LAMONT
PRIVATE SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND 1885-89 - SECRETARY
OF WAR 1893-97
Location: MAIN ST. VLGE. MCGRAW NEAR CORNER OF CHURCH ST.
PORT WATSON
NAMED AFTER ELKANAH WATSON
BUSY RIVER PORT 1800-1850
SITE SHIPYARDS, ROPE WALK,
FACTORIES. "ARKS" CARRIED
CARGOES TO PENNSYLVANIA
Location: CITY OF CORTLAND N.W. BRIDGE TIOUGHNIOGA R. AT INTSCTN. PORT SATSON ST.

County: CORTLAND
Town: CUYLER, TOWN OF

BROWN CABIN
BENJAMIN BROWN FROM
CONNECTICUT SETTLED HERE
IN 1795. FIRST ASSESSOR
AND SECOND TOWN CLERK
IN FABIUS
Location: ON CO. RD. 1/2 M.I. S. OF KEENEY
CAMPFIRE SITE
HERE DAVID MOSS AND
JAMES LOCKWOOD MADE
FIRST CAMPFIRE APRIL 1792
AND MADE FRIENDS WITH
THE INDIANS
Location: ON TN. RD. NEAR CUYLER
FOX CABIN
SAMUEL FOX SETTLED HERE
IN 1795 FROM CONNECTICUT
THIS HOUSE ERECTED
ABOUT 1821
Location: ON TN. RD. 1/4 MI. E. KEENEY
GATES CABIN
ZEBIDIAH GATES SETTLED
HERE IN 1807
CAME FROM MASSACHUSETTS
Location: ON CO. RD. 1 MI. S.E. CUYLER
GRISWOLD CABIN
ERECTED PRIOR TO 1825
Location: ON TN. RD. 3 MIS. N.W. CUYLER
KEENEY CABIN
THOMAS KEENEY
SETTLED HERE IN 1796
BUILT THIS HOUSE 1810
PROPERTY STILL IN
FAMILY POSSESSION
Location: ON TN. RD. 1 MI. N. CUYLER
LEE HOMESTEAD
BENJAMIN LEE
SETTLED HERE ABOUT 1796
BUILT THIS HOUSE
1810
Location: ON TN. RD. 2 MIS. N. CUYLER
PIONEER
CHURCH
FIRST CHURCH SERVICES
HELD IN A BARN
ON THIS SITE IN 1808
BY BENONI HARRIS
Location: ON TN. RD. 2 1/2 MIS. N. CUYLER
PIONEER HOME
OF JAMES LOCKWOOD
BUILT ON 100 ACRES OF
LAND GIVEN HIM BY
DAVID MOSS
Location: ON TN. RD. NEAR CUYLER
SITE OF
POTTER CABIN
NATHANIEL POTTER
SETTLED HERE IN 1792
Location: ON TN. RD. L 1/2 MIS. S.W. CUYLER
SITE OF CABIN
PIONEER HOME OF WANTON
COREY, WHOSE MARRIAGE TO
DEBORAH MOSS IN 1806
WAS FIRST IN TOWN
Location: ON LINCKLAEN ST., CUYLER
SITE OF CABIN
DAVID MOSS SETTLED HERE
IN 1792 FROM NEW JERSEY
ON LAND GRANTED FROM
GOVERNMENT. STILL IN
FAMILY POSSESSION
Location: ON TN. RD. AT CUYLER
SITE OF CABIN
JOB WHITMARSH FROM
VERMONT SETTLED HERE
IN 1796
PROPERTY STILL IN
POSSESSION OF FAMILY
Location: ON CO. RD. 3/4 MI. S. OF KEENEY

County: CORTLAND
Town: HOMER, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
FRANK B. CARPENTER, ARTIST
PAINTED "LINCOLN AND CABINET"
SON OF ASAPH CARPENTER
WHO SETTLED HERE
IN 1800
Location: ON US 11 3 MIS. NORTH OF HOMER
EARLY SETTLER
THOMAS GOULD ALVORD, SR.
BUILT HIS CABIN HERE IN
1794 ON LAND GRANTED FOR
SERVICES IN
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Location: AT INTRSCTN. NYS 41 & 41A
ELI DE VOE
BORN HERE IN LOG CABIN
MEMBER OF U.S. SECRET SERVICE
DETECTED AND FRUSTRATED
A PLOT TO KILL LINCOLN
Location: AT INTRSCTN. NYS 41 & 41A
JOHN ALBRIGHT
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
BUILT THIS HOUSE IN 1827
FOR HIS DAUGHTER, MRS.
NANCY GRIFFITH
Location: ON NYS 13 AT EAST HOMER
SALISBURY-PRATT HOMESTEAD
USED BEFORE CIVIL WAR AS
AN "UNDERGROUND STATION"
WHERE OREN CRAVATH
SHELTERED & AIDED FUGITIVE
SLAVES ON WAY TO CANADA
Location: ON NYS 281 1/2 MI. S. LITTLE YORK
SITE OF THE
FIRST LOG CABIN
SCHOOLHOUSE
OF DISTRICT NO. 8
1828-1838
Location: ON NYS 41 2 MIS. N.W. HOMER

County: CORTLAND
Town: PREBLE, TOWN OF

BALTIMORE
TANNERY AND SHOE SHOP. 1810
POST OFFICE 1812-1832
HOTELS 1814-24; 1830-56
SCHOOL 1801 ON EAST HILL
ROAD 1/4 MILE E. BRICK
YARD 1812. STORE 1810
Location: ON US 11 1 1/2 MIS. E. PREBLE
FIRST CHURCH
IN TOWN OF PREBLE
STOOD HERE. BUILT 1804
REMOVED TO VILLAGE 1859
Location: ON US. 11 2 MIS. N.E. PREBLE
FIRST SCHOOL
BUILT IN PREBLE 1801
RUTH THORP TEACHER,
HAD SCHOLARS FROM THE
TOWNS OF TULLY AND HOMER
Location: ON CO. RD. 2 MIS. E. PREBLE
METHODIST
ESPISCOPAL CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1814
CHURCH ERECTED 1824
Location: ON CO. RD. AT PREBLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
ORGANIZED AS CONGREGATIONAL
1804; REORGANIZED PRESBYTERIAN
1810; MOVED TO ITS PRESENT
SITE 1859
Location: ON CO. RD. 1/2 MI. E. OF PREBLE
SITE OF
OLD LOG CHURCH
M.E. CHURCH ORGANIZED 1814
LOG CHURCH BUILT SAME YEAR
ON GOSPEL AND SCHOOL ACRE
AND USED UNTIL THE NEW
CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1824
Location: ON TN. RD. AT PREBLE
SLAB CITY
SITE OF SAW MILL 1800
GRIST MILL 1806
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4
ORGANIZED 1813
PRESENT SCHOOL BUILT 1843
Location: ON US 11 2 1/2 MIS. S.E. PREBLE
WILLIAM VAN DENBURG
ERECTED LOG CABIN 1802
FIRST FRAME HOUSE BUILT
1806 AND USED AS HOTEL
Location: ON NYS 281 IN PREBLE

County: CORTLAND
Town: VIRGIL, TOWN OF

FIRST
SCHOOL HOUSE
IN TOWN OF VIRGIL
WAS ERECTED ON THIS SITE
1799
Location: ON CO. RD. 1 1/4 MIS. S.W. OF VIRGIL
FIRST
STATE ROAD
IN TOWN OF VIRGIL
BUILT 1793-94 BETWEEN
OXFORD AND CAYUGA
BY JOSEPH CHAPLIN
Location: ON NYS 90 IN VIRGIL
NATHAN BOUGHTON
1802 - 1876
WHO WROTE & PUBLISHED
A HISTORY OF THE
TOWN OF VIRGIL
WAS BORN ON THIS FARM
Location: ON CO. RD. 2 1/2 MIS. S.W. OF VIRGIL

County: DELAWARE
Town: ANDES, TOWN OF

ANTI-RENT WAR
ONE MILE TO SCENE OF
TRAGEDY WHERE UNDER-
SHERIFF OSMAN N. STEELE
WAS SLAIN BY ANTI-RENTERS
AUGUST 7, 1845
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. SOUTH OF ANDES

County: DELAWARE
Town: COLCHESTER, TOWN OF

DELAWARE COUNTY
SET APART FROM ULSTER AND
OTSEGO COS., 1797; NAMED
FOR DELAWARE RIVER, WHICH
WAS NAMED FOR LORD DELAWARE,
GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, 1609.
Location: ON NYS 17 AT DELAWARE-SULLIVAN COUNTY LINE

County: DELAWARE
Town: DAVENPORT, TOWN OF

DELAWARE COUNTY
SET APART FROM ULSTER AND
OTSEGO COS., 1797; NAMED
FOR DELAWARE RIVER, WHICH
WAS NAMED FOR LORD DELAWARE,
GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, 1609.
Location: ON NYS 23 AT THE DELAWARE-OTSEGO COUNTY LINE

County: DELAWARE
Town: DELHI, TOWN OF

FRISBEE HOUSE
THIS HOUSE BUILT IN 1804 BY
GIDEON FRISBEE, LATER JUDGE,
REPLACED THE LOG INN WHERE
THE FIRST DELAWARE COUNTY
COURTS CONVENED 1797-1799
Location: ON NYS 10 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF DELHI

County: DELAWARE
Town: DEPOSIT, TOWN OF

DELAWARE COUNTY
SET APART FROM ULSTER AND
OTSEGO COS., 1797; NAMED
FOR DELAWARE RIVER, WHICH
WAS NAMED FOR LORD DELAWARE,
GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, 1609.
Location: ON NYS 17 AT THE DELAWARE-BROOME COUNTY LINE AT DEPOSIT

County: DELAWARE
Town: FRANKLIN, TOWN OF

DELAWARE COUNTY
SET APART FROM ULSTER AND
OTSEGO COS., 1797; NAMED
FOR DELAWARE RIVER, WHICH
WAS NAMED FOR LORD DELAWARE,
GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, 1609.
Location: ON NYS 28 AT THE DELAWARE-OTSEGO COUNTY LINE
TURNER TAVERN
FIRST FRAME HOUSE TO BE
ERECTED IN THE VILLAGE OF
FRANKLIN
INHABITED BY ASA TURNER
IN 1792.
Location: ON NYS 7B AT FRANKLIN

County: DELAWARE
Town: HAMDEN, TOWN OF

TOWN OF HAMDEN
FIRST SETTLEMENT 1779 BY
DAVID HARROWER AND WIFE, THEIR
SONS, DAVID AND DUGAL. THESE
PIONEERS ARE BURIED NEAR HERE.
Location: ON NYS 10 AT HAMDEN

County: DELAWARE
Town: MIDDLETOWN, TOWN OF

DELAWARE COUNTY
SET APART FROM ULSTER AND
OTSEGO CO., 1797; NAMED
FOR DELAWARE RIVER, WHICH
WAS NAMED FOR LORD DELAWARE,
GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, 1609.
Location: ON NYS 28 AT DELAWARE-ULSTER COUNTY LINE
SANFORD SITE
ZIBA SANFORD AND HANNAH
ROBERTS SETTLED IN DUNRAVEN
IN 1819, BY OX TEAM. LIVED
IN ONE OF FIRST LOG CABINS
IN MARGARETVILLE VICINITY.
Location: ON CO. RD., DUNRAVEN-NEW KINGSTON; 2 MIS. N. OF DUNRAVEN
STONE
SCHOOL HOUSE
BUILT IN 1820
REBUILT IN 1860
DISTRICT NO. 10
TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARGARETVILLE

County: DELAWARE
Town: ROXBURY, TOWN OF

DELAWARE COUNTY
SET APART FROM ULSTER AND
OTSEGO COS., 1797; NAMED
FOR DELAWARE RIVER, WHICH
WAS NAMED FOR LORD DELAWARE,
GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, 1609.
Location: ON NYS 23 AT DELAWARE-GREENE COUNTY LINE
HARDENBURG
MANOR HOUSE
BUILT IN 1780 ON A GRANT
OF LAND ABOUT 2,000,000 ACRES
TO JOHANNES HARDENBURG AND
OTHERS, 1708, BY QUEEN ANNE
Location: ON NYS 23 NEAR DELAWARE-GREENE COUNTY LINE

County: DELAWARE
Town: STAMFORD, TOWN OF

ERECTED 1801
OLD ST. PETER'S
PROTESTANT EPIS. CHURCH
OF THE TOWNS OF STAMFORD,
HARPERSFIELD AND KORTRIGHT
PARISH ORGANIZED 1794.
Location: IN VILLAGE OF HOBART AT FOOT OF CHURCH ST.
INDIAN TRAIL
USED BY MOHAWK INDIANS ON
HUNTING EXCURSIONS FROM
SCHOHARIE CREEK TO COOK
HOUSE - NOW KNOWN AS
DEPOSIT
Location: ON NYS 23 AT STAMFORD

County: DELAWARE
Town: WALTON, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
WILLIAM B. OGDEN
1805-1877
FIRST MAYOR OF CHICAGO
Location: ON NYS 10 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. EAST OF WALTON
GABRIEL NORTH
BUILT A LOG HOUSE
HERE IN 1785
Location: ON NYS 10 AT WALTON
HOMESTEAD OF
THE PINE FAMILY
JOSHUA PINE SETTLED
HERE IN 1785.
Location: ON NYS 10 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF WALTON
HOMESTEAD OF
DR. PLATT TOWNSEND
BUILT 1796. LEADER OF
THE FOUNDERS OF WALTON
Location: ON NYS 10 AT WALTON
SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH
ERECTED IN WALTON 1791
Location: ON WEST BROOK RD., WALTON
TURNPIKE
HISTORIC ROUTE
FROM KINGSTON TO
JERICHO (BAINBRIDGE)
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF PROSPECT AVE. & DELAWARE ST., WALTON

County: DUTCHESS
Town: AMENIA, TOWN OF

AMENIA UNION
HOME OF DR. THOMAS YOUNG,
WHO NAMED AMENIA, AND
VERMONT; A REVOLUTIONARY
PATRIOT, AND FRIEND OF
ETHAN ALLEN.
Location: CO. RD AT AMENIA UNION
DUTCHESS COUNTY
CREATED IN 1638, AND NAMED
FOR THE DUTCHESS OF YORK.
THE "T" IN ORIGINAL NAME
IS STILL USED
Location: NYS 343, NE OF LEEDSVILLE, AT N.Y.-CONN. LINE
NAMED FROM THE LATIN
"AMOENA," "PLEASANT TO
THE EYE," BY DR. THOMAS
YOUNG, EARLY SETTLER, WHO
ALSO NAMED VERMONT.
Location: US 44, N. OF AMENIA
NEW YORK STATE
EXPLORED BY DUTCH, 1609,
SETTLED BY DUTCH, 1624; K.
UNDER ENGLISH RULE AFTER
1664. NAMED FOR DUKE OF
YORK, LATER KING JAMES II
Location: NYS 343, NE OF LEEDSVILLE, AT N.Y.-CONN. LINE
RICHARD SACKETT
FIST SETTLER OF AMENIA,
ABOUT 1711, HAD FARM HERE
AND IS BURIED ON HILL TO
NORTH. HE WAS COMMISSIONER
ON PALATINE SETTLEMENT.
Location: NYS 22 AT S. AMENIA
SITE OF
AMENIA SEMINARY
BUILT IN 1835; IT WAS
DIRECTED BY THE METHODIST
CHURCH. IT HAD A HIGH
REPUTATION AND MANY NOTED
GRADUATES.
Location: US 44, OF AMENIA
TROUTBECK
FORMER HOME OF MYRON B.
BENTON, POET-NATURALIST,
FRIEND OF JOHN BURROUGHS,
EMERSON AND THOREAU
Location: NYS 343, AT LEEDSVILLE
ULDRICK WINEGAR
AND HIS SON CAPT. GARRETT
WINEGAR, WHO CAME FROM THE
EAST CAMP OF THE PALATINES,
GERMANTOWN, N.Y. SETTLED
HERE IN 1724.
Location: CO. RD .5 MI. NW OF AMEINA UNION
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RED MEETING HOUSE
"CARMEL IN NINE PARTNERS,"
FIRST CHURCH IN AMENIA, WAS
FORMERLY NEAR CEMETERY.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD, FAMOUS
METHODIST, PREACHED HERE
Location: US 44, .7 MI. N. OF AMENIA

County: DUTCHESS
Town: BEACON, CITY OF

CITY OF BEACON
INCORPORATED MAY 15, 1913
CONSOLIDATION OF MATTEWAN
AND FISHKILL LANDING
VILLAGES
Location: NYS 9D, N. OF BEACON
CITY OF BEACON
INCORPORATED MAY 15, 1913
CONSOLIDATION OF MATTEWAN
AND FISHKILL LANDING
VILLAGES
Location: NYS 52, E. OF BEACON
CITY OF BEACON
INCORPORATED MAY 15, 1913
CONSOLIDATION OF MATTEWAN
AND FISHKILL LANDING
VILLAGES.
Location: NYS 9D, S. OF BEACON
FISHKILL LANDING
ONE OF OLDEST LANDINGS ALONG
HUDSON RIVER. DURING REV.
SUPPLIES FOR TROOPS IN
NEWBURGH & N.J. FROM NEW
ENGLAND BROUGHT ACROSS RIVER HERE
Location: BEEKMAN AND RIVER STS.
FISHKILL LANDING
IN 1869 POP. 1100; CONTAINED
4 CHURCHES, NEWSPAPER OFFICE,
STEAMBOAT LANDING, 2 MACHINE
SHOPS, R.R. STATION. STEAM
FERRY TO NEWBURGH. FERRY IN 1743.
Location: WILLOW ST. & VERPLANCK AVE.
MATTEWAN
IN 1860 POP. 1476, CONTAINED
4 CHURCHES, MACHINE WORKS,
CLOTHING AND FILE FACTORIES,
AND RUBBER SHOP. FORMERLY
HAD EXTENSIVE COTTON MILLS.
Location: ON NYS 9D & NYS 52
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MOUNT BEACON
ON THE SUMMIT, 1640 FEET
ABOVE HUDSON, WAS ONE OF
SYSTEM OF BEACON IN THE
HIGHLANDS PLANNED BY GENS.
WASHINGTON AND CLINTON.
Location: NYS 9D, AT FT. OF MOUNT BEACON

County: DUTCHESS
Town: CLINTON, TOWN OF

DEWITT HOUSE
BUILT 1773 BY JOHN DEWITT
CAPTAIN, REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY, SHERIFF
DUTCHESS CO. AND MEMBER
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Location: CO. RD. AT FROST'S MILLS

County: DUTCHESS
Town: DOVER, TOWN OF

CLOVE ROAD CAMP
A MILE WEST IS PHILIP HOAG
HOUSE, BUILT 1750, WHERE
WASHINGTON AND TROOPS, EN
ROUTE FROM BOSTON TO NEW
YORK, ENCAMPED IN 1776
Location: NYS 22, N. OF NYS 55, AT WINGDALE
DOVER STONE CHURCH
A CAVERN, WITH A WATERFALL,
REFUGE OF SASSACUS, PEQUOT
CHIEF, FLEEING FROM ROUT OF
HIS TRIBE AT NEW LOUDON, CONN.
AFTERWARD KILLED BY MOHAWKS.
Location: NYS 22, AT DOVER PLAINS
MOREHOUSE TAVERN
SITE OF TAVERN, ON ROAD
FROM HARTFORD, CONN., TO
FISHKILL, N.Y. WHERE
WASHINGTON, ROCHAMBEAU AND
DE CHASTELLUX STAYED
Location: NYS 22, N. OF NYS 55, AT WINGDALE

County: DUTCHESS
Town: EAST FISHKILL, TOWN OF

HOUSE BUILT IN 1740 BY
JUDGE THEODORUS VAN WYCK
OCCUPIED 1776-1777 BY
JOHN JAY
WHO HERE PRESIDED
AT PROVINCIAL COURT
Location: NYS 52 W. OF WICOPEE
SIBYL LUDINGTON
RODE HORSEBACK OVER THIS
ROAD THE NIGHT OF APRIL 26,
1777, TO CALL OUT COLONEL
LUDINGTON'S REGIMENT TO
REPEL BRITISH AT DANBURY, CONN.
Location: NYS 52 & NYS 216, AT STORMVILLE
STORMVILLE VILLAGE
SETTLED 1730 BY GENET,
GEORGE, AND ISAAC STORM
AFTER WHOM VILLAGE WAS
NAMED. PREVIOUS TO 1860
HAD 20 HOUSES.
Location: NYS 52 AT STORMVILLE
TOWN AND COUNTY LINE
EAST FISHKILL, DUTCHESS CO.
FORMED FROM FISHKILL 1849.
KENT, PUTNAM CO. FORMED AS
FREDERICKSTOWN 1788. CHANGED
TO FREDERICK 1795, KENT 1817.
Location: NYS 52, .5 MI. S. OF PECKSVILLE, AT DUTCHESS-PUTNAM CO. LINE
TOWN AND COUNTY LINE
EAST FISHKILL, DUTCHESS CO.
FORMED FROM FISHKILL 1849.
KENT, PUTNAM CO. FORMED AS
FREDERICKSTOWN 1788. CHANGED
TO FREDERICK 1795, KENT 1817.
Location: CO. RD., 1 MI. W. OF PECKSVILLE, AT DUTCHESS-PUTNAM CO. LINE
TOWN LINE
EAST FISHKILL FORMED FROM
FISHKILL 1849. BEEKMAN
FORMED AS TOWN 1788. PART OF
LAGRANGE OFF IN 1821: AND
PART OF UNION VALE IN 1827.
Location: NYS 216, 1 MI. E. OF STORMVILLE
TOWN LINE
EAST FISHKILL FORMED FROM
FISHKILL 1849. FISHKILL
FORMED 1788. PART OF LA GRANGE
OFF 1821 AND EAST FISHKILL
1849. PART OF
PHILIPSTOWN ANNEXED 1806.
Location: NYS 52 OF WICOPEE
TOWN LINE
EAST FISHKILL FORMED FROM
FISHKILL 1849. FISHKILL
FORMED 1788. PART OF LA GRANGE
OFF 1821 AND EAST FISHKILL
1849. PART OF
PHILIPSTOWN ANNEXED 1806.
Location: NYS 52 OF WICOPEE

County: DUTCHESS
Town: FISHKILL, TOWN OF

BATTERY
ON THIS HILL, DURING THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WAS
A BATTERY FOR THE DEFENSE
OF "THE GORGE OF THE
MOUNTAINS," FISHKILL CLOVE
Location: US 9, 1/8 MI. N. OF DUTCHESS-PUTNAM CO. LINE
BUILT 1738 BY
COLONEL JOHN
BRINCKERHOFF
WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS
WHILE ARMY WAS
IN FISHKILL
Location: NYS 82, E. OF BRINCKERHOFF
DUTCHESS COUNTY
CREATED IN 1683 AND NAMED
FOR THE DUTCHESS OF YORK.
THE "T" IN ORIGINAL NAME
IS STILL USED
Location: US 9, AT DUTCHESS-PUTNAM CO. LINE
ENOCH CROSBY
AMERICAN SPY, TAKEN WITH
RECRUITS FOR BRITISH ARMY,
CONFINED HERE AFTER MOCK
TRIAL BY COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
WAS ALLOWED TO ESCAPE
Location: NYS 52, AT FISHKILL
HOME OF
HENDRICK KIP
BUILT 1753. FISHKILL
HEADQUARTERS OF BARON VON
STEUBEN ABOUT 1777.
GEN. WASHINGTON AND COUNT
PULASKI VISITED HERE
Location: SW OF NYS 52, NR. GLENHAM
SITE OF
FISHKILL TEA PARTY
AUG. 26, 1776, 100 WOMEN
FORCED ABRAM BRINCKERHOFF
STOREKEEPER, TO SELL THEM
TEA AT LAWFUL PRICE OF
SIX SHILLINGS PER POUND
Location: NYS 52, AT BRINCKERHOFF
STAR MILLS
BUILT BY ABRAM BRINCKERHOFF.
BURNED 1777. REBUILT BY
ORDER OF GEN. WASHINGTON
WHILE HIS SOLDIERS ENCAMPED
AT FISHKILL. LATER DEMOLISHED
Location: S. OF NYS 52, IN BRINCKERHOFF
VERPLANCK HOUSE
BUILT 1740, BY GULIAN
VERPLANCK, BURNED 1931.
HEADQUARTERS BARON STEUBEN
1762. SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI
ORGANIZED THERE IN 1783.
Location: NYS 9D, .5 MI. N. OF BEACON
WARTON HOUSE
MADE FAMOUS BY
COOPER'S NOVEL, "THE SPY"
HEADQUARTERS OF GEN. PUTNAM
IN REVOLUTION
Location: US 9, .5 MI. S. OF FISHKILL
WASHINGTON'S SWORD
WAS FORGED OR REPAIRED NEAR
HERE BY JOHN BAILEY. THE
SWORD IS NOW IN SMITHSONIAN
MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Location: NYS 52, AT GLENHAM
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TRINITY CHURCH
ORGANIZED BY REV. SAMUEL SEABURY
1756, BUILT 1760. PROVINCIAL CONGRESS
MET HERE SEPT. 1776. USED AS
HOSPITAL DURING REVOLUTION.
Location: NYS 52 AT FISHKILL
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DUTCH CHURCH
REFORMED CHURCH OF FISHKILL
ORGANIZED 1716, BUILT 1725,
OCCUPIED 1776 BY NEW YORK
PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, ALSO
PRISON DURING REVOLUTION.
Location: NYS 52, AT FISHKILL

County: DUTCHESS
Town: HYDE PARK, TOWN OF

SITE OF
JAMES K. PAULDING
HOUSE, 1841-1860
PAULDING WAS A DISTINGUISHED
AUTHOR, COLLABORATED WITH
WASHINGTON IRVING. WAS SEC'Y
OF NAVY UNDER VAN BUREN
Location: US 9, 2 MIS. N. OF HYDE PARK
ST. JAMES CHURCH
ERECTED 1844. ATTENDED BY
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 32D
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, AND HIS FAMILY
Location: US 9, 1 MI. N. OF HYDE PARK

County: DUTCHESS
Town: LA GRANGE, TOWN OF

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OSWEGO
OLD NAME OF COMMUNITY ONE
MILE EAST, WITH MEETING
HOUSE OF SOCIETY OF
FRIENDS, 18TH CENTURY CENTER
FOR A WIDE NEIGHBORHOOD
Location: NYS 82, AT MOORE'S MILLS

County: DUTCHESS
Town: MILAN, TOWN OF

BURIAL GROUND
CHIEF CROW AND OTHER
MOHICAN SHACOMECOS OF
MORAVIAN FAITH BURIED HERE.
LAST BURIAL ABOUT 1850
Location: CO. RD., W. OF JACKSON CORNERS
COLONIAL INN
BUILT ABOUT 1773
STAGE INN, DOCTOR'S OFFICE,
HOTEL, STORE,
POST OFFICE OF
JACKSON CORNERS
Location: AT JACKSON CORNERS
FULTON HOMESTEAD
JOHN FULTON, FIRST OWNER.
DEED RECORDED OCT. 12, 1795
HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN POSSESSION
OF THE FULTON FAMILY.
IN FULTON NAME UNTIL 1933.
Location: CO. RD., BETWEEN UPPER RED HOOK & JACKSON CORNERS
NOBLETOWN ROAD
RUNNING FROM POST ROAD
IN LIVINGSTON, THROUGH
GALLATIN, ANCRAM, STATE LINE,
NOBLETOWN, TO BARRINGTON, N.H.
IN USE BEFORE 1798
Location: CO. RD., W. OF JACKSON CORNERS

County: DUTCHESS
Town: NORTH EAST, TOWN OF

BRYAN
BURYING GROUND
PRIVATE GRAVE YARD
OLD STONE 1825
Location: NYS 82, N. OF SHEKOMEKO
COLEMAN'S STATION
BURYING GROUND
PRIVATE GRAVE YARD
OLD STONE 1749.
Location: .5 MI. E. OF US 44, AT COLEMAN'S STATION
IRONDALE CEMETERY
IRONDALE, MILLERTON.
TOWN OF NORTH EAST
OLD STONE 1818.HIP, LITCHFIELD
Location: NYS 22, AT MILLERTON
NORTH EAST CENTER
BURYING GROUND
EARLY STONE MARKED 1801
Location: US 44, AT NORTH EAST CENTER
SPENCER'S CORNERS
BURYING GROUND
BELONGED TO BAPTIST CHURCH.
LAND DONATED HERE FOR CHURCH
& GRAVE YARD BY REV. SIMON
DAKIN, 1776. OLDEST STONE 1701.
Location: CO. RD., 1.5 MIS. E. OF NYS 22
SPENCER'S CORNERS
NORTH EAST POST OFFICE
MAY 1, 1773, FIRST BAPTIST
COVENANT MEETING IN NORTH
EAST HELD AT HOME OF REV.
SIMON DAKIN, NEAR HERE.
Location: CO. RD., 1.5 MIS. E. OF IRONDALE
TOWN, COUNTY, & STATE LINE
NORTH EAST TOWNSHIP, DUTCHESS
COUNTY, NEW YORK STATE;
SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, LITCHFIELD
COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.
Location: US 44, AT N.Y.-CONN. LINE
TOWN, COUNTY, & STATE LINE
NORTH EAST TOWNSHIP, DUTCHESS
COUNTY, NEW YRK STATE;
SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, LITCHFIELD
COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.
Location: NYS 361, AT N.Y.-CONN. LINE

County: DUTCHESS
Town: PAWLING, TOWN OF

DUTCHESS COUNTY
CREATED IN 1683 AND NAMED
FOR THE DUTCHESS OF YORK.
THE "T" IN ORIGINAL NAME
IS STILL USED.
Location: NYS 22, 3 MIS. S. OF PAWLING
JOHN L. WORDEN
COMMANDER OF THE MONITOR,
AGAINST THE CONFEDERATE RAM,
MERRIMAC, HAMPTON ROADS,
MAR.9, 1862; REAR ADMIRAL,
U.S.N. IS BURIED HERE
Location: NYS 22, 100 YDS. N. OF NYS 55
KANE HOUSE
OCCUPIED BY GEN. WASHINGTON,
SEP.-NOV., 1778 AFTER THE
BATTLE OF MONMOUTH, N.J. WHEN
HE WAS PLANNING AN ADVANCE
UPON NEW YORK CITY
Location: NYS 22, AT PAWLING

County: DUTCHESS
Town: PINE PLAINS, TOWN OF

CHRISTIAN CHURCH
WEST PINE PLAINS
DEDICATED 1859 BY REV. ELI
FAY OF YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO.
NEW STOREHOUSE FOR FARM
MACHINERY AND ALSO GARAGE.
Location: NYS 199, 2 MIS. W. OF PINE PLAINS
HUBBELL SPRING
NAMED FOR MR. HUBBELL
WHO BUILT CABIN NEARBY
ABOUT 1760. WATERING
THROUGH HERE SINCE THAT
DATE.
Location: NYS 199, .5 MI. W. OF PINE PLAINS
MOUNT ROSS
NAMED FOR CAPTAIN THOMAS
ROSS, WHO WAS CALLED
"BARON ROSS"
DIED AUGUST, 1762
Location: CO. RD., AT MOUNT ROSS
OLD TURNPIKE
RHINEBECK-SALISBURY
TURNPIKE. LEGISLATIVE
ACT PASSED APRIL 2, 1802.
Location: NYS 199, .5 MI. E. OF PINE PLAINS
PINE PLAINS
NORTHEAST LINE
PINE PLAINS ORGANIZED 1823.
NORTHEAST FORMED 1788 AND
INCLUDED MILAN AND PINE
PLAINS. MILAN TAKEN OFF IN 1818.
Location: NYS 82, 4 MIS. SE OF PINE PLAINS
PINE PLAINS
NORTHEAST LINE
PINE PLAINS ORGANIED 1823.
NORTHEAST FORMED 1788 AND
INCLUDED MILAN AND PINE
PLAINS. MILAN TAKEN OFF IN 1818.
Location: NYS 199, AT PINE PLAINS-NORTH EAST LINE
PINE PLAINS-STANFORD LINE
PINE PLAINS ORGANIZED 1823.
PART OF NORTHEAST 1788 AND
LITTLE NINE PARTNERS 1706.
STANFORD ORGANIZED 1793.
PART OF WASHINGTON 1788 AND
GREAT NINE PARTNERS 1697
Location: NYS 82 A, 1 MI, N. OF ATTLEBURY, AT PINE PLAINS-STANFORD LINE
SCYTHE WORKS SITE
STONE FROM HERE USED IN
BASEMENT WALLS OF ADDITION
TO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH; ALSO
FOR FOUNDATIONS IN EVERGREEN
CEMETERY.
Location: NYS 199, .5 MI. W. OF HAMMERTON
SITE OF
RED CHURCH
BUILT BY GERMAN REFORMERS
1772 ON PULVER FARM; TORN
DOWN 1826; KNOWN AS THE
OLD RED CHURCH
Location: NYS 199, 1 MI. W. OF NYS 82
SITE OF
GRINDING WORKS
FOUNDED BY COL. SILAS
HARRIS ABOUT 1832.
Location: NYS 82, 3 MIS. SE OF PINE PLAINS
SITE OF
OLD TAVERN
LOG HOUSE TAVERN INN 1798,
DR. ASAHEL HASKINS, PROP.
HOTEL BUILT 1804 BY F. & E.
DIBBLEE, C. KETTERER OWNER
ENLARGED HOTEL 1872 & 1882.
Location: SE CORNER MAIN AND CHURCH STS. IN PINE PLAINS
SITE OF
SEYMOUR SMITH ACADEMY
OPENED 1879: LEASED 1896, AS
UNION FREE SCHOOL. REV. A.
MATTICE, A.M. ONLY PRINCIPAL.
1000 GRADUATES
Location: ACADEMY AND SMITH STS., IN PINE PLAINS
SITE OF
DIBBLE-BOOTH HOUSE
BUILT ABOUT 1728. REPAIRED
BEFORE 1775 AND TOP STORY
ADDED. J. LEWIS, STOREKEEPER,
1ST OCCUPANT. INDIAN TRADING
POST AND STORE. TORN DOWN 1878
Location: NYS 199, W. OF PINE PLAINS
UNION LIBRARY
OF PINE PLAINS
ORGANIZED 1798. EBENEZER
BALDWIN FIRST LIBRARIAN.
FIRST PUBLIC LIBRARY IN
TOWN OF NORTH EAST
Location: SW CORNER MAIN AND CHURCH STS. IN PINE PLAINS

County: DUTCHESS
Town: POUGHKEEPSIE, CITY OF

MATTHEW VASSAR
FOUNDER OF VASSAR COLLEGE,
LIVED IN HOUSE ON THIS SITE
FOR MANY YEARS. NOW SITE OF
VASSAR BROS. HOME
Location: NE CORNER MAIN & VASSAR STS.
ON THIS SITE 1777-1807
STEPHEN HENDRICKSON'S INN;
1807-1876, THE FORBUS HOUSE;
SINCE 1876, THE NELSON HOUSE
Location: MARKET ST. AT NELSON HOUSE
POUGHKEEPSIE
FIRST SETTLERS IN 1687.
NEW YORK STATE CAPITAL,
1778-1783. CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES RATIFIED
HERE BY NEW YORK, JULY 26, 1788
Location: NYS 376, SE OF POUGHKEEPSIE
POUGHKEEPSIE
FIRST SETTLERS IN 1687.
NEW YORK STATE CAPITAL,
1778-1783. CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES RATIFIED
HERE BY NEW YORK, JULY 26, 1788
Location: US 9 G, N. OF POUGHKEEPSIE
POUGHKEEPSIE
FIRST SETTLERS IN 1687.
NEW YORK STATE CAPITAL,
1778-1783. CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES RATIFIED
HERE BY NEW YORK, JULY 26, 1788
Location: US 9, S. OF POUGHKEEPSIE
SITE OF
SMITH THOMPSON
COUNTRY HOME
THOMPSON WAS SECRETARY
OF NAVY, 1818-1822 AND
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME
COURT OF U.S., 1833-1843
Location: US 9, 75 YDS. N. OF CITY LINE
THE GLEBE HOUSE
BUILT IN 1767
BY MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND IN DUTCHESS
COUNTY FOR THEIR MINISTER
Location: 635 MAIN ST.
VAL KILL
DUTCH NAME FOR
"STREAM OF FALLS"
"PONDANICKRIEN" IS THE
INDIAN NAME MEANING
"CROOKED PLACE"
Location: MILL ST. AT BRIDGE
[ARROW]
1776 SHIPYARD
ON SHORE LINE OF RIVER WAS
A CONTINENTAL SHIPYARD
WHERE FRIGATES CONGRESS
AND MONTGOMERY WERE BUILT
TO DEFEND THE HUDSON RIVER
Location: NE CORNER LIVINGSTON AND PROSPECT STS.

County: DUTCHESS
Town: POUGHKEEPSIE, TOWN OF

ENTRANCE TO ESTATE OWNED
AND OCCUPIED 1804-1812 BY
GEORGE CLINTON
THEN VICE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES
Location: SHAEFE RD., AT N.Y. TRAP ROCK CO.
SPECK ZYN KILL
DUTCH FOR "SPECK, HIS
STREAM". LATER CALLED
SPECK'N KILL AND
SPECKENKILL. SPECK, AN
INDIAN, OWED THIS LAND
Location: US 9, AT SPECKENKILL RD.
ZEPHANIAH PLATT
COUNTY COURT JUDGE, COLONEL
OF MILITIA, MEMBER COUNCIL
OF SAFETY, CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, DELEGATE STATE SENATE
LIVED HERE 1762-1798.
Location: OVERLOOK RD., 1 MI. FROM NYS 55

County: DUTCHESS
Town: RED HOOK, TOWN OF

DAVID VAN NESS
BUILT BRICK HOUSE HERE BEFORE
1797. WAS CAPTAIN DURING
REVOLUTION, GEN. OF STATE
MILITIA, STATE SENATOR AND
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR 1812.
Location: W. MARKET & PHILLIPS STS., IN RED HOOK
DUTCHESS COUNTY
CREATED IN 1683 AND NAMED
FOR THE DUTCHESS OF YORK.
THE "T" IN ORIGINAL NAME
IS STILL USED
Location: US 9, .5 MI. N. OF KERLEYS CORNERS
MONTGOMERY PLACE
HOME OF JANET LIVINGSTON,
WIDOW OF GENERAL RICHARD
MONTGOMERY. KILLED IN
QUEBEC 1775; AND OF HON.
EDW. LIVINGSTON, 1764-1836.
Location: CO. RD., .5 MI. SW OF ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON
OLD RED BRICK TAVERN
KNOWN IN 1789 AS THE
THOMAS HOUSE
HEADQUARTERS IN 1777 OF
GENERAL PUTNAM
Location: E. OF US 9, IN UPPER RED HOOK

County: DUTCHESS
Town: RHINEBECK, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
BRIG. GEN. JOHN A. QUITMAN
SEPT. 1, 1799-JULY 17,1858
HERO OF MEXICAN WAR
SENATOR, CHANCELLOR, JUDGE
GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI
Location: US 9, 2 MIS. N. OF RHINEBECK
BOGARDUS LAND
TRAINING GROUND OF
REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS.
FORMERLY BELONGED TO
WILLIAM TRAPHAGEN, FOUNDER
OF VILLAGE OF RHINEBECK
Location: US 9, AT RHINEBECK P.O.
HOUSE OCCUPIED BY
GEN. RICHARD MONTGOMERY
WHEN HE TOOK COMMAND
OF THE NORTHERN FORCES
1775
Location: LIVINGSTON ST., RHINEBECK
JOHN BENNER HOUSE
HELD THE FIRST METHODIST
CHURCH SRVICES IN THE
TOWN. CONDUCTED BY THE
REV. FREEBORN GARRETSON, 1791-1792
Location: US 9, 2 MIS. S. OF RHINEBECK
LANDSMAN'S KILL
WHOSE WATERS OPERATED
THE MILLS OF SCHUYLER,
MONTGOMERY, MORGAN LEWIS
LIVINGSTON AND MANY OTHERS
Location: US 9, AT BR. IN RHINEBECK
LONG DOCK
LANDING FOR FERRY CHARTERED
1752, CONNECTING THE ULSTER
AND SALISBURY PIKE ON THE
EAST WITH THE ULSTER AND
DELAWARE ON THE WEST
Location: NYS 308, 1 MI. W. OF RHINEBECK
OLD RHINEBECK
ORIGINAL LOCATION OF THE
VILLAGE OF RHINEBECK
SITE OF OLDEST CHURCH
IN NORTHERN PRECINCT OF
DUTCHESS COUNTY
Location: US 9, 2 MIS. N. OF RHINEBECK
PETER PULTZ' TAVERN
BUILT ABOUT 1800
KNOWN ALSO AS "BOWERY HOUSE"
WAS SOCIAL CENTER OF COMMUNITY;
ITS COURTROOM, THEATER & BALLROOM
WAS HDQTS. "YELLOW BIRD" STAGE LINE
Location: NYS 308, E. OF MULBERRY ST., IN RHINEBECK
RUINS OF THE
KIP-BEEKMAN-HEERMANCE HOUSE
BUILT 1700 BY HENDRICK KIP, PATENTEE.
HOME OF COL. HENRY BEEKMAN, JR.
LATER OF HIS GRANDSON COL. HENRY
B. LIVINGSTON OF THE REV. ARMY
Location: NYS 308, .5 MI. E. OF RHINECLIFF
WESTWARD ON THE LEFT (RIGHT)
GASMERE-BIRTHPLACE-W.A. DUER
ONCE PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA COL.
ON THE RIGHT BEYOND - ELLERSLIE
HOME OF LEVI P. MORTON, GOV. OF
N.Y. & VICE PRES. OF U.S.
Location: US 9, 2 MIS. S. OF RHINEBECK
WHITE CORNER
BUILT IN 1816 BY
CHRISTIAN SCHELL.
ONCE THE COMMERCIAL
AND FINANCIAL CENTER
OF THE COMMUNITY
Location: NW CORNER MILL & W. MARKET STS. IN RHINEBECK

County: DUTCHESS
Town: WAPPINGER, TOWN OF

MESIER PARK
PRE-REVOLUTIONARY HOUSE
HOME OF MESIER FAMILY
FROM 1777 TO 1890
ACQUIRED BY VILLAGE 1891
Location: NYS 9D, AT WAPPINGERS FALLS

County: DUTCHESS
Town: WASHINGTON, TOWN OF

JACOB WILLETTS
DEBORAH WILLETTS
WIDELY KNOWN EDUCATORS
LIVED HERE IN EARLY
19TH CENTURY
Location: NYS 343, 1/4 MI. E. OF MILLBROOK
MEETING HOUSE
BUILT IN 1780 BY THE
NINE PARTNERS MEETING
OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Location: NYS 343, .5 MI. E. OF MILLBROOK
NINE PARTNERS
SCHOOL
ON THIS SITE, 1796-1863,
INFLUENTIAL IN EDUCATION
FAMOUS FOR ITS TEACHERS
AND PUPILS
Location: NYS 343, 3/4 MI. E. OF MILLBROOK

County: ERIE
Town: AMHERST, TOWN OF

MAIN STREET
SURVEYED IN 1799 BY JOSEPH
ELLICOTT ALONG THE LINE OF
THE OLD "CENTRAL TRAIL" FROM
ALBANY, WAS AN EARLY STAGECOACH
ROUTE AND WAGON TRAIL TO THE WEST
Location: ON NYS 5 AT BUFFALO CITY LINE
U.S. BARRACKS 1812
ALONG GARRISON RD TO CREEK AND
EXTENDING SOUTHEAST WERE LOG
BARRACKS OF GEN. SMYTH'S ARMY DURING
WINTER OF 1812 AND '13. THESE
BUILDINGS WERE LATER USED AS HOSPITAL
Location: ON NYS 5 IN VLGE. OF WILLIAMSVILLE

County: ERIE
Town: BOSTON, TOWN OF

PIONEER CHURCH
FOUNDED BY REV. JOHN
SPENCER, MISSIONARY, 1811.
MEETING HOUSE ERECTED 1837.
REAR SECTION HOUSED SELECT
SCHOOL, ORGANIZED 1809.
Location: ON US 219 AT BOSTON

County: ERIE
Town: BUFFALO, CITY OF

OLD NAVY YARD
1813
FIVE VESSELS OF COMMODORE
PERRY'S FLEET WERE RECONDITIONED
ON SOTUH BANK AT NORTH OF
NEARBY SEAJAQUADA CREEK
SITE OF
OLD JUBILEE SPRING HOUSE
BUILT IN 1830. SOURCE
OF EARLY WATER SUPPLY
Location: ON DELAWARE AVENUE
WILCOX MANSION
SITE OF ARMY BARRACKS
ESTABLISHED HERE IN 1838.
PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT
TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE AS
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
HERE
Location: ON DELAWARE AVENUE

County: ERIE
Town: CHEEKTOWAGA, TOWN OF

[ARROW]
1/4 MILE
WAR OF 1812 CEMETERY
Location: ON GARRISON ROAD AT ELLICOTT CREEK ROAD

County: ERIE
Town: TONAWANDA, TOWN OF

ST JOHN'S
CEMETERY
FIRST BURIAL 1839
ORGANIZED 1850
RESTORED 1934
KNOWN AS "WERKLEY"
CEMETERY
Location: ON EGGERT ROAD NEAR SHERIDAN DRIVE

County: ERIE
Town: WEST SENECA, TOWN OF

JACK BERRY'S TOWN
LARGEST POST REVOLUTIONARY
SENECA INDIAN VILLAGE
OCCUPIED THIS SITE
1780-1840
Location: VILLAGE OF GARDENVILLE IN MEMORIAL PARK
MIDDLE EBENEZER
HOME (1843-1864) OF
CHRISTIAN METZ
LEADER OF THE COMMUNITY
OF TRUE INSPIRATION
[ARROW]
Location: VILLAGE OF GARDENVILLE BY BRIDGE OVER BUFFALO CREEK

County: ESSEX
Town:

JOHN BROWN'S BODY
GUARDED BY LOCAL CITIZENS
RESTED IN THE COURT HOUSE
ON THE NIGHT OF DEC. 6, 1859
ON ITS WAY TO BURIAL AT HIS
HOME IN NORTH ELBA

County: ESSEX
Town: CHESTERFIELD, TOWN OF

TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32. VIA
AUSABLE FORKS, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE,
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 373 ABOUT 2 MILES FROM PORT KENT
TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32. VIA
AUSABLE FORKS, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE,
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 9N AT CLINTONVILLE
TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32. VIA
AUSABLE FORKS, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE,
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 373 ABOUT 2 MILES FROM PORT KENT
TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32. VIA
AUSABLE FORKS, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE,
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 9N AT CLINTONVILLE
TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32. VIA
AUSABLE FORKS, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE,
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 9N AT CLINTONVILLE

County: ESSEX
Town: CROWN POINT, TOWN OF

500 FT.
[ARROW]
RUINS OF
PRE-REVOLUTIONARY
VILLAGE
AND TRADING POST
Location: ON CROWN POINT RESERVATION AT CHAMPLAIN BRIDGE
BUILT BY GENERAL AMHERST 1759
COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY
MILITARY ROAD
CROWN POINT TO TICONDEROGA
Location: ON NYS 8 ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF CHAMPLAIN BRIDGE
COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY
MILITARY ROAD
CROWN POINT TO TICONDEROGA
Location: ON NYS 8 ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF CHAMPLAIN BRIDGE
GRENADIER FORT
ONE OF SECONDARY DEFENSES OF
CROWN POINT
BUILT BY GENERAL AMHERST 1759
VILLAGE
AND TRADING POST
Location: ON CROWN POINT RESERVATION AT CHAMPLAIN BRIDGE
GRENADIER FORT
ONE OF SECONDARY DEFENSES OF
CROWN POINT
BUILT BY GENERAL AMHERST 1759
Location: ON CROWN POINT RESERVATION AT CHAMPLAIN BRIDGE
LIGHT INFANTRY FOR
ONE OF THE SECONDARY DEFENSES OF
CROWN POINT
BUILT BY GENERAL AMHERST 1759
Location: ON NYS 8 AT CROWN JPOINT RESERVATION
LIGHT INFANTRY FORT
ONE OF THE SECONDARY DEFENSES OF
CROWN POINT
BUILT BY GENERAL AMHERST 1759
Location: ON NYS 8 AT CROWN POINT RESERVATION

County: ESSEX
Town: ELIZABETHTOWN, TOWN OF

ELIZABETHTOWN
FORMED FEB. 12, 1798, NAMED
IN HONOR OF ELIZABETH, WIFE
OF WILLIAM GILLILAND,
PATENTEE MANOR OF WILLSBORO
COUNTY SEAT ESSEX COUNTY
Location: ON US 9 AT ELIZABETHTOWN
ELIZABETHTOWN
FORMED FEB. 12, 1798, NAMED
IN HONOR OF ELIZABETH, WIFE
OF WILLIAM GILLILAND,
PATENTEE MANOR OF WILLSBORO
COUNTY SEAT ESSEX COUNTY
Location: ON US 9 AT ELIZABETHTOWN
NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810. FROM
WESTPORT VIA ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON US 9 AT ELIZABETHTOWN
NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810. FROM
WESTPORT VIA ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON US 9N AT ELIZABETHTOWN
STATE ARSENAL
ERECTED BY
STATE OF NEW YORK
IN 1811
USED DURING WAR OF 1812
SOLD IN 1848
Location: ON US 9 AT ELIZABETHTOWN
STATE ARSENAL
ERECTED BY
STATE OF NEW YORK
IN 1811
USED DURING WAR OF 1812
SOLD IN 1848
Location: ON US 9 AT ELIZABETHTOWN

County: ESSEX
Town: ESSEX, TOWN OF

COON MOUNTAIN
NEAR THE NORTHERN BASE OF THIS
MOUNTAIN, WILLIAM GILLILAND,
EARLYPIONEER OF CHAMPLAIN
VALLEY, MET HIS TRAGIC
DEATH IN 1796
COON MOUNTAIN
NEAR THE NORTHERN BASE OF THIS
MOUNTAIN, WILLIAM GILLILAND,
EARLY PIONEER OF CHAMPLAIN
VALLEY, MET HIS TRAGIC
DEATH IN 1796
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF WADHAMS
SITE OF
WILLSBOROUGH BLOCKHOUSE
ERECTED 1797 AS A PROTECTION
AGAINST INDIANS; USED
FROM 1799-1807 AS
ESSEX COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Location: ON NYS 22 AT ESSEX
SITE OF
WILLSBOROUGH BLOCKHOUSE\
ERECTED 1797 AS A PROTECTION
AGAINST INDIANS; USED
FROM 1799-1807 AS
ESSEX COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Location: ON NYS 22 AT ESSEX
SPLIT ROCK
CALLED ROCHE REGIO BY INDIANS.
BOUNDARY BETWEEN MOHAWKS AND
ALGONQUINS. BY TREATY OF
UTRECHT CONCEDED AS LIMIT
OF ENGLISH DOMINIONS.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 3 MI. SOUTH OF ESSEX
SPLIT ROCK
CALLED ROCHE REGIO BY INDIANS.
BOUNDARY BETWEEN MOHAWKS AND
ALGONQUINS. BY TREATY OF
UTRECHT CONCEDED AS LIMIT
OF ENGLISH DOMINIONS.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 3 MI. SOUTH OF ESSEX

County: ESSEX
Town: MINERVA, TOWN OF

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
SEPT. 14, 1901, STOPPED AT AIDEN LAIR
TO CHANGE HORSES IN NIGHT RIDE ON
BUCKBOARD FROM MT. MARCY TO NORTH
CREEK TO TAKE OATH OF PRESIDENT
AT BUFFALO, N.Y.
Location: ON NYS 28N ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF MINERVA
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
SEPT. 14, 1901, STOPPED AT AIDEN LAIR
TO CHANGE HORSES IN NIGHT RIDE ON
BUCKBOARD FROM MT. MARCY TO NORTH
CREEK TO TAKE OATH OF PRESIDENT
AT BUFFALO, N. Y.
Location: ON NYS 28N ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF MINERVA

County: ESSEX
Town: MORIAH, TOWN OF

CHAMPLAIN ACADEMY
SITE OF PORT HENRY'S FIRST
TAVERN 1826. THIS BUILDING
ERECTED AS PEASE HOUSE 1850.
Location: ON NYS 9N AND NYS 22 AT PORT HENRY
CHAMPLAIN ACADEMY
SITE OF PORT HENRY'S FIRST
TAVERN 1826. THIS BUILDING
ERECTED AS PEASE HOUSE 1850.
Location: ON NYS 9N AND NYS 22 AT PORT HENRY
DALLIBA HOUSE
BUILT 1824 BY MAJOR JAMES
DALLIBA, WHO NAMED PORT
HENRY IN 1827 FOR HENRY
HUNTINGTON OF ROME, N.Y.
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
DALLIBA HOUSE
BUILT 1824 BY MAJOR JAMES
DALLIBA, WHO NAMED PORT
HENRY IN 1827 FOR HENRY
HUNTINGTON OF ROME, N. Y.
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
GUILFORD HOUSE
FIRST POSTOFFICE IN
PORT HENRY LOCATED
IN THIS BUILDING
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
GUILFORD HOUSE
FIRST POSTOFFICE IN
PORT HENRY LOCATED
IN THIS BUILDING.
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
HUBBARD HOUSE
BUILT IN 1802
Location: ON BROAD STREET AT PORT HENRY
HUBBARD HOUSE
BUILT IN 1802
Location: ON BROAD STREET AT PORT HENRY
MC KENSIE HOUSE
BUILT IN 1785 BY WILLIAM
MC KENSIE. BIRTHPLACE OF HIS SON,
ALEXANDER. FIRST TOWN MEETING
OF MORIAH HERE APRIL 5, 1808.
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
MC KENSIE HOUSE
BUILT IN 1785 BY WILLIAM
MC KENSIE. BIRTHPLACE OF HIS SON,
ALEXANDER. FIRST TOWN MEETING
OF MORIAH HERE APRIL 5, 1808
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
MEACHAM HOUSE
BUILT IN 1818 BY
CAPT. WILLIAM MEACHAM
Location: ON NYS 9N AND NYS 22 AT PORT HENRY
MEACHAM HOUSE
BUILT IN 1818 BY
CAPT. WILLIAM MEACHAM
Location: ON NYS 9N AND NYS 22 AT PORT HENRY
MILLER HOUSE
BUILT 1839 BY HENRY
MILLER, PORT HENRY'S
FIRST WHEELWRIGHT.
Location: ON BROAD ST. AT PORT HENRY
MILLER HOUSE
BUILT 1839 BY HENRY
MILLER, PORT HENRY'S
FIRST WHEELWRIGHT.
Location: ON BROAD ST. AT PORT HENRY
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD AT MORIAH
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON CO. RD. BETWEEN MINEVILLE AND MORIAH CENTER
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD BETWEEN MORIAH AND PORT HENRY
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD BETWEEN PORT HENRY AND MORIAH
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON BROAD STREET AT PORT HENRY
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON BROAD STREET AT PORT HENRY
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON BROAD STREET AT PORT HENRY
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON CO. RD. BETWEEN MINEVILLE AND MORIAH CENTER
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD AT MORIAH
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD BETWEEN MORIAH AND PORT HENRY
MORIAH PLANK ROAD
HORSE DRAWN WAGONS HAULED IRON
ORE FROM MINES TO PORT HENRY
OVER THIS ROAD UNTIL 1869.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD BETWEEN PORT HENRY AND MORIAH
SHORE LINE
OF BUTTERFIELD'S BAY. BOATS
WERE MOORED ALONG NORTH
MAIN STREET BEFORE BUILDING
OF RAILROAD THROUGH HERE
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
SHORE LINE
OF BUTTERFIELD'S BAY. BOATS
WERE MOORED ALONG NORTH
MAIN STREET BEFORE BUILDING
OF RAILROAD THROUGH HERE
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
SITE OF
FIRST BLAST FURNACE
ERECTED IN 1824 BY MAJOR
JAMES DALLIBA; CONVERTED
INTO STOVE WORKS IN 1827
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
SITE OF
PORTER'S AND LEWSIS MILLS
BUILT 1766; SUPPLIES LUMBER
FOR FORT CROWN POINT AND
ARNOLD'S FLEET. ENTIRE VALLEY
DEPENDENT ON GRIST MILL.
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
SITE OF
FIRST BLAST FURNACE
ERECTED IN 1824 BY MAJOR
JAMES DALLIBA; CONVERTED
INTO STOVE WORKS IN 1827
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
SITE OF
PORTER'S AND LEWIS'S MILLS
BUILT 1766; SUPPLIED LUMBER
FOR FORT CROWN POINT AND
ARNOLD'S FLEET. ENTIRE VALLEY
DEPENDENT ON GRIST MILL.
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
THIS BUILDING
ERECTED IN 1850 ON
SOUTH MAIN STREET AS
SECOND SCHOOLHOUSE
IN PORT HENRY
Location: ON BROAD STREET AT PORT HENRY
THIS BUILDING
ERECTED IN 1850 ON
SOUTH MAIN STREET AS
SECOND SCHOOLHOUSE
IN PORT HENRY
Location: ON BROAD STREET AT PORT HENRY
TRAINING GROUND
PRIOR TO 1850 MILITIA OF
SOUTHERN ESSEX COUNTY
HELD JUNE TRAINING HERE
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY
TRAINING GROUND
PRIOR TO 1850 MILITIA OF
SOUTHERN ESSEX COUNTY
HELD JUNE TRAINING HERE
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22, PORT HENRY

County: ESSEX
Town: NORTH ELBA, TOWN OF

JOHN BROWN
OCCUPIED HOUSE ON THIS
SITE IN 1848-50 WHILE
CLEARING THE LAND
NOW KNOWN AS
JOHN BROWN'S FARM.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE PLACID
JOHN BROWN
OCCUPIED HOUSE ON THIS
SITE IN 1848-50 WHILE
CLEARING THE LAND
NOW KNOWN AS
JOHN BROWN'S FARM.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD ABOUT 1ﾽ MILES SOUTH OF LAKE PLACID
NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810. FROM
WESTPORT VIA ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 86A ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE PLACID
NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810. FROM
WESTPORT VIA ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 86A ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE PLACID

County: ESSEX
Town: TICONDEROGA, TOWN OF

A BATTERY OF GUNS PLACED ON
MOUNT DEFIANCE
BY BRITISH ARTILLERY
OFFICERS IN JULY 1777 FORCEDR
EVACUATION OF FORT TICONDEROGA
BY GENERAL ST. CLAIR.
Location: ON THE PORTAGE OF TICONDEROGA
A BATTERY OF GUNS PLACED ON
MOUNT DEFIANCE
BY BRITISH ARTILLERY
OFFICERS IN JULY 1777 FORCED
EVACUATION OF FORT TICONDEROGA
BY GENERAL ST. CLAIR.
Location: ON THE PORTAGE AT TICONDEROGA
ALONG THIS STREET RAN THE
OLD MILITARY ROAD
FORTIFIED IN 1759 BY
GENERAL AMHERST PRIOR TO
HIS SIEGE OF
FORT TICONDEROGA
Location: ON THE PORTAGE AT TICONDEROGA
ALONG THIS STREET RAN THE
OLD MILITARY ROAD
FORTIFIED IN 1759 BY
GENERAL AMHERST PRIOR TO
HIS SIEGE OF
FORT TICONDEROGA
Location: ON THE PORTAGE AT TICONDEROGA
COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY
MILITARY ROAD
CROWN POINT TO TICONDEROGA
Location: ON NYS 8 & NYS 9N & NYS 22 ABOUT 3 1/2 MIS. N. OF TICONDEROGA
COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY
MILITARY ROAD
CROWN POINT TO TICONDEROGA
Location: ON NYS 8 & NYS 22 ABOUT 3ﾽ MIS. N. OF TICONDEROGA
FATHER JOGUES
RENE GOUPIL AND GUILLAUME
COUTRE IN 1642 WERE THE
FIRST WHITE MEN TO SEE THESE
WATERS, NAMED LAC DU ST.
SACREMENT BY JOGUES IN 1646
Location: ON BLACK PT. RD. SO. OF TICONDEROGA
FATHER JOGUES
RENE GOUPIL AND GUILLAUME
COUTRE IN 1642 WERE THE
FIRST WHITE MEN TO SEE THESE WATERS
NAMED LAC DU SACREMENT BY JOGUES IN 1646
Location: ON BLACK POINT RD. SOUTH OF TICONDEROGA
GARRISON CEMETERY
HERE ARE BURIED SEVERAL
HUNDRED OFFICERS AND MEN OF
THE AMERICAN ARMY, CHIEFLY
NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND
PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA 1775-1777
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
GARRISON CEMETERY
HERE ARE BURIED SEVERAL
HUNDRED OFFICERS AND MEN OF
THE AMERICAN ARMY, CHIEFLY
NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND
PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA 1775-1777
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
HERE STOOD
THE KING'S STORE
A STONE BUILDING ERECTED
BY THE FRENCH IN 1756 AND
IN USE FOR ABOUT 100 YEARS
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
HERE STOOD
THE KING'S STORE
A STONE BUILDING ERECTED
BY THE FRENCH IN 1756 AND
IN USE FOR ABOUT 100 YEARS.
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
HUT SITES
WITHIN A RADIUS OF ONE-HALF
MILE WERE 150 HUTS
OCCUPIED BY AMERICAN
TROOPS IN THE REVOLUTION
1775-1777
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
HUT SITES
WITHIN A RADIUS OF ONE-HALF
MILE WERE 150 HUTS
OCCUPIED BY AMERICAN
TROOPS IN THE REVOLUTION
1775-1777
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
NEAR HERE MARCH 13, 1758
ROGERS' RANGERS FOUGHT THE
SNOWSHOE BATTLE
AND WERE DEFEATED BY
FRENCH AND INDIANS UNDER
DURANTAYE AND LANGY
Location: ON TICONDEROGA COUNTRY GOLF COURSE SO. OF TICONDEROGA
NEAR HERE MARCH 13, 1758
ROGERS' RANGERS FOUGHT THE
SNOWSHOE BATTLE
AND WERE DEFEATED BY
FRENCH AND INDIANS UNDER
DURANTAYE AND LANGY
Location: ON TICONDEROGA COUNTRY GOLF COURSE SO. OF TICONDEROGA
NEAR HERE ON JULY 30, 1609
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
AIDED BY TWO FRENCHMEN AND
HURON AND MONTAGNAIS
ALLIES DEFEATED A BAND OF]
ALLIES DEFEATED A BAND OF
IROQUOIS WARRIORS
Location: ON FR. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION A TICONDEROGA
NEAR HERE ON JULY 30, 1609
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
AIDED BY TWO FRENCHMEN AND
HURON AND MONTAGNAIS
ALLIES DEFEATED A BAND OF
IROQUOIS WARRIORS
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
NEAR HERE ON JULY 6, 1758
LORD HOWE
WAS KILLED IN A SKIRMISH
WITH A FRENCH ADVANCE GUARD
UNDER LANGY AND TREPEZEC
Location: ON ALEXANDRIA AVE. SOUTHWEST OF TICONDEROGA
NEAR HERE ON JULY 6, 1758
LORD HOWE
WAS KILLED IN A SKIRMISH
WITH A FRENCH ADVANCE GUARD
UNDER LANGY AND TREPEZEC
Location: ON ALEXANDRIA AVE. SOUTHWEST OF TICONDEROGA
NEAR THIS SPOT STOOD THE
HOUSE AND STORE OF
JOHN STOUGHTON
FIRST ENGLISH PATENTEE
AT TICONDEROGA 1764
Location: ON ALEXANDRIA AVE. SOUTHWEST OF TICONDEROGA
NEAR THIS SPOT STOOD THE
HOUSE AND STORE OF
JOHN STOUGHTON
FIRST ENGLISH PATENTEE
AT TICONDEROGA 1764
Location: ON ALEXANDRIA AVE. AT TICONDEROGA
ON THE EAST SHORE OPPOSITE
THIS PLACE WERE ERECTED
TWO BLOCKHOUSES
TO GUARD THE NARROWS AND
LANDING PLACE 1759.
Location: ON BLACK POINT RD. SOUTH OF TICONDEROGA
ON THE EAST SHORE OPPOSITE
THIS PLACE WERE ERECTED
TWO BLOCKHOUSES
TO GUARD THE NARROWS AND
LANDING PLACE 1759.
Location: ON BLACK PT. RD. SO. OF TICONDEROGA
ON THIS POINT IN 1759 STOOD
A BLOCKHOUSE
THE SOUTHERLY OUTPOST OF THE
FORT. HERE LANDED ROGERS
RANGERS AS THE VANGUARD OF
GENERAL AMHERST'S ARMY
Location: ON BLACK POINT RD. SOUTH OF TICONDEROGA
ON THIS POINT IN 1759 STOOD
A BLOCKHOUSE
THE SOUTHERLY OUTPOST OF THE
FORT. HERE LANDED ROGERS
RANGERS AS THE VANGUARD OF
GENERAL AMHERST'S ARMY.
Location: ON BLACK POINT RD. SOUTH OF TICONDEROGA
ON THIS SPOT IN 1756
FRENCH ENGINEERS BUILT
A REDOUBT
TO GUARD THE BRIDGE
AND LANDING PLACE AT
THE HEAD OF THE PORTAGE.
Location: ON BLACK POINT AT TICONDEROGA
ON THIS SPOT IN 1756
FRENCH ENGINEERS BUILT
A REDOUBT
TO GUARD THE BRIDGE
AND LANDING PLACE AT
THE HEAD OF THE PORTAGE.
Location: ON BLACK POINT AT TICONDEROGA
OPPOSITE THIS SPOT ON THE
WEST BANK OF THE OUTLET OF
LAKE GEORGE STOOD
A BLOCKHOUSE
AND FRENCH DEFENSES TO COVER
THE BRIDGE AND LANDING PLACE.
Location: ON BALDWIN RD. SO. OF TICONDEROGA
OPPOSITE THIS SPOT ON THE
WEST BANK OF THE OUTLET OF
LAKE GEORGE STOOD
A BLOCKHOUSE
AND FRENCH DEFENSES TO COVER
THE BRIDGE AND LANDING PLACE.
REDOUBT
LOTBINIERE
BUILT BY THE FRENCH IN
1756, CALLED BY THE BRITISH
AND AMERICAN ARMIES
THE GRENADIERS' BATTERY
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
REDOUBT
LOTBINIERE
BUILT BY THE FRENCH IN
1756, CALLED BY THE BRITISH
AND AMERICAN ARMIES
THE GRENADIERS' BATTERY
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
SCENE OF
[ARROW]
ROGERS' BATTLE
ON SNOWSHOES
PREVIOUS TO HIS REPUTED GLIDE
OFF ROGERS' ROCK
1758
Location: ON NYS 8 & NYS 9N ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF TICONDEROGA
SCENE OF
ARROW
ROGERS' BATTLE
ROGERS' BATTLE
PREVIOUS TO HIS REPUTED GLIDE
OFF ROGERS' ROCK
1758
Location: ON NYS 8 & NYS 9N ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF TICONDEROGA
THE FRENCH LINES
BUILT BY TROOPS UNDER
MONTCALM JULY 6-7, 1758.
REPARIED BY
AMERICAN TROOPS 1776.
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
THE FRENCH LINES
BUILT BY TROOPS UNDER
MONTCALM JULY 6-7, 1758.
REPAIRED BY
AMERICAN TROOPS 1776.
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT TICONDEROGA
THESE DEFENSES
WERE BUILT BY AMERICAN
TROOPS IN 1776 AND OCCUPIED
BY GENERAL BURGOYNE IN 1777
CONTROLLING THE PORTAGE
AND LOWER LANDING PLACE
Location: ON MT. HOPE AT TICONDEROGA
THESE DEFENSES
WERE BUILT BY AMERICAN
TROOPS IN 1776 AND OCCUPIED
BY GENERAL BURGOYNE IN 1777
CONTROLLING THE PORTAGE
AND LOWER LANDING PLACE
Location: ON MT. HOPE AT TICONDEROGA
[ARROW]
ON HILL ABOVE
MOUNT HOPE BATTERY
OCCUPIED BY GENERAL BURGOYNE
1777
Location: ON MT/HOPE AVE. AT TICONDEROGA
[ARROW]
ON HILL ABOVE
MOUNT HOPE BATTERY
OCCUPIED BY GENERAL BURGOYNE
1777
Location: ON MT/HOPE AVE. AT TICONDEROGA

County: ESSEX
Town: WESTPORT, TOWN OF

FIRST SAWMILL
IN TOWN OF WESTPORT
STOOD HERE. BUILT 1770
BOARDS FROM MILL USED IN
BUILDING BARRACKS AT
CROWN POINT & TICONDEROGA
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF WESTPORT
FIRST SAWMILL
IN TOWN OF WESTPORT
STOOD HERE. BUILT 1770
BOARDS FROM MILL USED IN
BUILDING BARRACKS AT
CROWN POINT & TICONDEROGA
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF WESTPORT
HERE STOOD THE
FIRST TAVERN
AT NORTHWEST BAY
BUILT BY JOHN HALSTEAD
ABOUT 1800
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF WESTPORT
HERE STOOD THE
FIRST TAVERN
AT NORTHWEST BAY
BUILT BY JOHN HALSTEAD
ABOUT 1800
Location: ON NYS 9N & NYS 22 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF WESTPORT
NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810, FROM
WESTPORT VIA ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 9N ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF WESTPORT
NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810, FROM
WESTPORT VIA ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 9N ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF WE

County: ESSEX
Town: WILLSBORO, TOWN OF

BOUQUET RIVER
BURGOYNE'S ENCAMPMENT
JUNE 20-25, 1777
TREATY WITH THE INDIANS MADE
AND PROCLAMATION ISSUED.
Location: ON NYS 22 AT WILLSBORO
BOUQUET RIVER
BURGOYNE'S ENCAMPMENT
JUNE 20-25, 1777
TREATY WITH THE INDIANS MADE
AND PROCLAMATION ISSUED.
Location: ON NYS 22 AT WILLSBORO
LAKEVIEW CEMETERY
FIRST BURIAL 1791
CONTAINS GRAVE OF
WILLIAM GILLILAND, FOUNDER
OF TOWN OF WILLSBORO
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF WILLSBORO
LAKEVIEW CEMETERY
FIRST BURIAL 1791
CONTAINS GRAVE OF
WILLIAM GILLILAND, FOUNDER
OF TOWN OF WILLSBORO
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 2ﾽ MILES SOUTH OF WILLSBORO
MASONIC HALL
ESSEX LODGE NO. 152
CHARTERED FEBRUARY 14,
1806; DISCONTINUED
IN 1826.
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 2ﾽ MILES SOUTH OF WILLSBORO
MASONIC HALL
ESSEX LODGE NO. 152
CHARTERED FEBRUARY 14,
1806; DISCONTINUED
IN 1826.
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 2ﾽ MILES SOUTH OF WILLSBORO
MASONIC HALL
ESSEX LODGE NO. 152
CHARTERED FEBRUARY 14,
1806; DISCONTINUED
IN 1826.
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF WILLSBORO
MEMORIAL CEMETERY
FIRST BURIAL 1793
CONTAINS GRAVE OF MARTIN
AIKEN, LEADER OF AIKEN'S
VOLUNTEERS AT BATTLE
OF PLATTSBURGH
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT ﾽ MI. SOUTH OF WILLSBORO
MEMORIAL CEMETERY
FIRST BURIAL 1793
CONTAINS GRAVE OF MARTIN
AIKEN, LEADER OF AIKEN'S
VOLUNTEERS AT BATTLE
OF PLATTSBURGH
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF WILLSBORO
NEAR HERE
EBENEZER ALLEN
CAPTURED BRITISH SOLDIERS
AND MILITARY STORES AFTER
SURRENDER AT SARATOGA
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT ﾽ MILE NORTH OF ESSEX
NEAR HERE
EBENEZER ALLEN
CAPTURED BRITISH SOLDIERS
AND MILITARY STORES AFTER
SURRENDER AT SARATOGA
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF ESSEX
SITE OF
FIRST HOUSE
BUILT BY WILLIAM
GILLILAND IN 1765
Location: ON NYS 22 AT WILLSBORO
SITE OF
FIRST HOUSE
BUILT BY WILLIAM
GILLILAND IN 1765
Location: ON NYS 22 AT WILLSBORO
WILLISBORO
FOUNDED IN 1765 BY
WILLIAM GILLILAND;
TOWN FORMED 1788;
COUNTY SEAT OF ESSEX
COUNTY 1797-1807
Location: ON NYS 22 AT WILLSBORO
WILLSBORO
FOUNDED IN 1765 BY
WILLIAM GILLILAND;
TOWN FORMED 1788;
COUNTY SEAT OF ESSEX
COUNTY 1797-1807
Location: ON NYS 22 AT WILLSBORO
WILLSBORO
FOUNDED IN 1765 BY
WILLIAM GILLILAND;
TOWN FORMED 1788;
COUNTY SEAT OF ESSEX
COUNTY 1797-1807
Location: ON NYS 22 AT WILLSBORO

County: FRANKLIN
Town: BANGOR, TOWN OF

BANGOR'S FIRST SETTLER
JOSEPH PLUMB, REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIER, CAME FROM BRATTLEBORO,
VT. TO THIS FARM, WITH OXEN
YOKED ON A SLED
Location: ON US 11 AT NORTH BANGOR
OLD MILITARY
TURNPIKE
PLATTSBURGH TO HOPKINTON
VIA. ELLENBURG, CHATEAUGAY
MALONE. BEGUN BY MILITARY
LABOR 1817. COMPLETED IN 1826.
Location: ON NYS 11B AT BANGOR

County: FRANKLIN
Town: BELLMONT, TOWN OF

ON THIS SITE
WAS BUILT IN 1874
THE WORLD'S LARGEST
CATALAN FORGE
ABANDONED IN 1893
Location: ON NYS 374 ABOUT 1 MI. S. OF BRAINARDSVILLE

County: FRANKLIN
Town: BOMBAY, TOWN OF

"LOST DAUPHIN" COTTAGE
IN THIS DWELLING LIVED
ELEAZER WILLIAMS
WHO CLAIMED TO BE SON
OF LOUIS XVI OF FRANCE
Location: ON NYS 37 AT HOGANSBURG
GRAVE OF
ELEAZER WILLIAMS
EPISCOPAL CLERGYMAN
MISSIONARY TO INDIANS
REPUTED THE "LOST DAUPHIN",
SON OF LOUIS XVI
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT HOGANSBURG
HOME OF
WILLIAM HOGAN
FOUNDER OF HOGANSBURG
MEMBER OF UNITED STATES
CONGRESS, 1831-33
Location: ON NYS 37 AT HOGANSBURG
ON THIS SITE
WAS ERECTED
FRANKLIN COUNTY'S FIRST
CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1834
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT HOGANSBURG

County: FRANKLIN
Town: BRIGHTON, TOWN OF

NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810. FROM
WESTPORT VIA. ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 192 AT GABRIELS

County: FRANKLIN
Town: BURKE, TOWN OF

SITE OF
FIRST STORE IN BURKE
ERECTED AND OPERATED BY
DANIEL MITCHELL AT
THAYERS CORNERS
DESTROYED BY TORNADO, 1856
Location: AT THAYERS CNRS. ON US 11 3 MIS. W. OF CHATEAUGAY

County: FRANKLIN
Town: CHATEAUGAY, TOWN OF

FORT HICKORY
SITE OF BLOCKHOUSE OCCUPIED
DURING WAR OF 1812 BY
SAMUEL HOLLENBECK, WHO
ONCE DEFENDED IT SINGLE
HANDED AGAINST ATTACK
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 MI. S. OF EARLVILLE

County: FRANKLIN
Town: DICKINSON, TOWN OF

OLD MILITARY
TURNPIKE
PLATTSBURGH TO HOPKINTON
VIA. ELLENBURG, CHATEAUGAY
MALONE. BEGUN BY MILITARY
LABOR 1817. COMPLETED IN 1826.
Location: ON NYS 11B AT E. DICKINSON

County: FRANKLIN
Town: DUANE, TOWN OF

NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810. FROM
WESTPORT VIA. ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 72 ABOUT 3 MIS. N. OF MCCOLLOMS

County: FRANKLIN
Town: FORT COVINGTON, TOWN OF

FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1821. BUILDING
ERECTED 1829. THIRD CHURCH
BUILT IN FRANKLIN CO. NOW
USED AS MASONIC TEMPLE
Location: ON SALMON ST. AT FORT COVINGTON
ON THIS SITE
WAS BUILT IN 1812
A BLOCKHOUSE. USED TO
SHELTER SICK AND WOUNDED
AFTER THE RETREAT FROM
CHRYSLER'S FIELD IN 1813
Location: ON COVINGTON LA. AT FORT COVINGTON
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
ORGANIZED ABOUT 1821.
ORIGINAL BUILDING ERECTED
1828. REBUILT AND
ENLARGED 1866.
Location: ON COVINGTON ST. AT FORT COVINGTON.
SITE OF
FORT COVINGTON
WINTER QUARTERS OF GEN.
WILKINSON'S ARMY AFTER
DEFEAT AT CHRYSLER'S FIELD
WAR OF 1812
Location: ON MAIN ST. AT FORT COVINGTON
THIS BUILDING
WAS HEADQUARTERS OF
GENERAL JACOB BROWN
AMERICAN ARMY OFFICER
DURING WINTER OF 1813-14
IN WAR OF 1812
Location: ON MAIN ST. AT FORT COVINGTON

County: FRANKLIN
Town: HARRIETSTOWN, TOWN OF

NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810. FROM
WESTPORT VIA. ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 86 AT NORTH END OF VLGE. OF SARANAC LAKE

County: FRANKLIN
Town: MALONE, TOWN OF

ARSENAL GREEN
DEEDED TO STATE 1812 FOR
PUBLIC PARADE GROUND.
USED ON TRAINING DAYS.
STONE ARSENAL BUILT 1812,
REMAINED UNTIL ABOUT 1855
Location: ON EAST MAIN ST. AT MALONE
CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1807. FIRST CHURCH
BUILDING IN COUNTY 1826;
SECOND 1856; PRESENT 1883.
FIRST PASTOR, ASHBEL PARMELEE
Location: ON EAST MAIN ST. AT MALONE
FRANKLIN ACADEMY
FIRST SCHOOL TAUGHT 1806;
CALLED HARISON ACADEMY 1811.
CHARTERED 1831 AS FRANKLIN
ACADEMY. 73 MEN MORTGAGED
THEIR FARMS TO SUPPLY FUNDS.
Location: ON WEBSTER ST. AT MALONE
HARISON HOUSE
HOME OF RICHARD L. HARISON
1747-1829. MEMBER OF FEDERAL
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
1788. GENERAL WILKINSON'S
HEADQUARTERS IN WAR OF 1812.
Location: ON WEBSTER ST. AT MALONE
HOME OF
WILLIAM ALMON WHEELER
1819-87; ATTORNEY, BANKER,
ASSEMBLYMAN, STATE SENATOR,
CONGRESSMAN, VICE PRESIDENT
OF UNITED STATES 1877-81.
Location: ON ELM ST. AT MALONE
OLD MILITARY
TURNPIKE
PLATTSBURGH TO HOPKINTON
VIA. ELLENBURG, CHATEAUGAY
MALONE. BEGUN BY MILITARY
LABOR 1817. COMPLETED IN 1826.
Location: ON NYS 11B AT MALONE
SITE OF
FOOTE TAVERN
1807-13; U.S. HOSPITAL 1813-14
ORIGINAL HOUSE MOVED TO
FRANKLIN STREET 1892 AND
SITE USED FOR ARMORY
Location: ON WEST MAIN ST. AT MALONE

County: FRANKLIN
Town: MOIRA, TOWN OF

FIRST SCHOOL
BUILDING IN TOWN OF MOIRA
STOOD ON THIS SITE
BUILT OF LOGS
ABOUT 1807
Location: ON US 11 AT MOIRA
SITE OF FIRST
STARCH FACTORY
IN TOWN OF MOIRA. BUILT
1851 BY COL. C.A. STONE
AND CAPT. WM. A. TUPPER
Location: ON US 11 AT WESTERN EDGE OF BRUSHTON
SITE OF HOME
LUTHER BRADISH
LT. GOV. NEW YORK 1838-40
SPEAKER OF ASSEMBLY IN 1838
SPECIAL UNITED STATES ENVOY
TO CONSTANTINOPLE, 1820
Location: ON NYS 95 ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. N. OF MOIRA
UNION CHURCH
ERECTED HERE ABOUT 1833
BY CHRISTIAN AND M.E.
DENOMINATIONS
FIRST CHURCH IN COUNTY
PRESENT CHURCH BUILT 1867
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT MOIRA

County: FRANKLIN
Town: SANTA CLARA, TOWN OF

JENNINGS ROAD
USED BY U.S. TROOPS
WAR OF 1812
MARCHING WEST FROM
LAKE CHAMPLAIN TO
LAKE ONTARIO
Location: ON NYS 72 ABOUT 6 MIS. SE OF SANTA CLARA
NORTHWEST
BAY ROAD
BEGUN PRIOR TO 1810. FROM
WESTPORT VIA. ELIZABETHTOWN,
LAKE PLACID, SARANAC LAKE,
SANTA CLARA, HOPKINTON
Location: ON NYS 72 AT SANTA CLARA
OLDEST BUILDING
TOWN OF SANTA CLARA
FORMER RAILROAD STATION
BUILT BY JOHN HURD
WHO BUILT RAILROAD
IN 1889
Location: ON NYS 72 AT SANTA CLARA

County: FRANKLIN
Town: WAVERLY, TOWN OF

TURNPIKE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
BUILT 1829-32, VIA.
AUSABLE FORKS, BLACK BROOK,
FRANKLIN FALLS, LOON LAKE
ST. REGIS FALLS, HOPKINTON
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1 MI. N. OF ST. REGIS FALLS

County: FRANKLIN
Town: WESTVILLE, TOWN OF

MAN HOMESTEAD
OCCUPIED BY DR. ALBON AND
ALRIC MAN, BROTHERS FROM
VERMONT 1802. HOUSE
BUILT PRIOR TO 1810. BOTH
OFFICERS IN WAR OF 1812
Location: ON CO. RD. 2 MIS. W. OF CONSTABLE
SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH IN WESTVILLE
WESTVILLE FREE CHURCH
ERECTED IN 1837
Location: ON NYS 37 AT WESTVILLE

County: FULTON
Town: BROADALBIN, TOWN OF

FRENCHMANS' CREEK
IN 1810 DUNCAN MC MARTIN ON THIS
CREEK BUILT A SAW, GRIST & WOOLEN
MILL. HE WAS SURVEYOR, LAWYER,
JUDGE COURT COMMON PLEAS 1813;
LATER ELECTED STATE SENATOR.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT NORTH BROADALBIN
HANS' CREEK
NAMED BY SIR WM JOHNSON
AFTER A FISHING TRIP WITH
JOHN CONYE WHO FELL OUT OF THE
BOAT AND NEARLY DROWNED. HANS
BEING THE NAME FOR JOHN.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT BENEDICT

County: FULTON
Town: JOHNSTOWN, CITY OF

1763
THE DRUMM HOUSE
HOME OF EDWARD WALL SCHOOL-
MASTER SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S
FREE SCHOOL
Location: AT INTERSECTION W. GREEN ST. AND N. WILLIAM ST.
CANNON
TAKEN FROM JOHNSON HALL BY
SIR JOHN JOHNSON ON HIS
FLIGHT TO CANADA MAY 1776
SPIKED AND ABANDONED NEAR
TRAIL IN ADIRONDACKS
Location: AT E. END OF BLOCKHOUSE AT JOHNSON HALL
ERECTED 1772
ONLY COLONIAL COURT HOUSE
IN STATE OF NEW YORK
FIRST COURT GENERAL
SESSIONS, TRYON COUNTY,
SEPTEMER 8, 1772
Location: AT INTERSECTION N. WILLIAM ST. & W. MAIN ST.
FORT JOHNSTOWN
IMPORTANT FRONTIER CIVIL
AND MILITARY PRISON DURING
REVOLUTION. INSPECTED BY
WASHINGTON IN 1783
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF S. PERRY ST. AND MONTGOMERY ST.
JAMES BURK'S INN
MOVED HERE ABOUT 1788. LOT
FORMERLY SIR WM JOHNSON'S.
VILLAGE CALLED JOHN'S TOWN.
YOUNGLOVE HOME 1812-1926.
D.A.R. CHAPTER HOUSE 1926.
Location: AT INTERSECTION SO. WILLIAM ST. & W. MONTGOMERY ST.
JOHNSON HALL 1762
BARONIAL HOME OF SIR
WILLIAM JOHNSON. ONE OF THE
MOST HISTORIC COLONIAL
BUILDINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Location: ON WEST STATE ST.
JOHNSON TRAIL
USED BY SIR WM. JOHNSON
1762-1774 BETWEEN FORT
JOHNSON AND JOHNSON HALL
A BI-CENTENNIAL IN 1938
CELEBRATED HIS ARRIVAL
IN AMERICA
Location: ON WEST STATE ST.
UNION HALL
FAMOUS POST-REVOLUTIONARY
TAVERN, RESORT OF "NICK"
STONER, ERECTED 1798 BY CAPT.
JEAN BATISTE VAUMANE DE FON
CLAIRE, FORMER OFFICER IN
FRENCH ARMY UNDER LOUIS XVI
Location: AT INTERSECTION E. MAIN ST. & E. STATE ST.
[ARROW]
1 MILE TO
BARONIAL HOME OF
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
ERECTED 1762
OPEN TO VISITORS
Location: AT INTERSECTION S. WILLIAM ST. & W. MADISON AVE.
[ARROW]
BARONIAL HOME OF
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
ERECTED 1762
OPEN TO VISITORS
Location: AT INTERSECTION W. STATE ST. AND HALL AVE.
[ARROW]
BATTLEFIELD
BATTLE OF JOHNSTOWN
FOUGHT HERE OCTOBER
25, 1781. LAST
REAL BATTLE OF
THE REVOLUTION
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT N.W. LIMITS OF CITY
[ARROW]
GRAVE OF SIR
WILLIAM JOHNSON
MOST OUTSTANDING FIGURE
OF COLONIAL PERIOD. "BUILDER
OF AN EMPIRE"
(1715-1774)
Location: ON N. MARKET ST. IN FRONT OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH
[ARROW]
1/2 MILE TO
BARONIAL HOME OF
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
ERECTED 1762
OPEN TO VISITORS
Location: AT INTERSECTION N. WILLIAM ST. & W. GREEN ST.
[ARROW]
COLONIAL
CEMETERY
REMAINS OF MANY JOHNSTOWN
NOTABLES OF COLONIAL
AND REVOLUTIONARY DAYS
BURIED HERE
Location: ON WEST GREEN ST.
[ARROW] NORTH
SITE OF
FIRST ST. JOHN'S CHURCH (1760)
ERECTED BY SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON;
FIRST CHURCH OF ENGLAND NORTH
OF THE MOHAWK RIVER
Location: AT INTERSECTION W. GREEN ST. AND N. WILLIAM ST.

County: FULTON
Town: MAYFIELD, TOWN OF

BAPTIST CHURCH
OF MAYFIELD AND BROADALBIN
ORGANIZED HERE IN 1792,
THEN THE HOME OF CALEB
WOODWORTH, SOLDIER OF
REVOLUTION, FIRST SETTLER
Location: ON NYS 148 ABOUT 4 MIS. N.E. OF GLOVERSVILLE
INDIAN RAID
JACOB DUNHAM AND SAMUEL,
HIS SON, KILLED HERE APRIL
1779. OTHERS OF THE FAMILY
ESCAPED BY HIDING IN THE
WOODS. SITE OF THEIR HOME
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF MAYFIELD
RICE HOMESTEAD
BUILT ABOUT 1790 BY
OLIVER RICE
A SOLDIER OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION, SERVING UNDER
GENERAL WASHINGTON
Location: ON NYS 148 AT RICEVILLE
SITE OF
ROMEYN'S MILL
ERECTED 1773 BY SIR WILLIAM
JOHNSON. REBUILT BY COL.
ABRAHAM ROMEYN. COMMANDER
MONTGOMERY COUNTY MILITIA
Location: ON NYS 30 AT MAYFIELD
[ARROW]
BURYING GROUND
OF MAJOR HARMON AND
FRANCIS VAN BUREN, SEVENTH
ALBANY COUNTY REGIMENT;
REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
SETTLERS ON THIS LAND.
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. S.E. OF MAYFIELD
[ARROW]
KING CEMETERY
HENRY KING AND SON JOHN
SETTLED ON THIS SITE AND
ARE BURIED HERE. GRAVES
OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS
AND PIONEERS OF 1788-1815.
Location: ON NYS 148 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. S.W. OF NORTHVILLE
[ARROW]
BURYING GROUND
GRAVES OF CAPTAIN GERSHOM
WOODWORTH, FRENCH AND INDIAN
AND REVOLUTIONARY WARS AND
SERGEANT SELAH WOODWORTH OF
REVOLUTION; MAYFIELD PIONEER.
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE WEST OF MAYFIELD
[ARROW]
SITE OF
DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH OF
MAYFIELD, 1793-1826.
CHURCHYARD CONTAINING
REMAINS OF MANY
PIONEERS OF THIS SECTION.
Location: ON NYS 30 AT MAYFIELD
[ARROW]
WOODWORTH FARM
CONVEYED BY COMMISSIONERS
OF FORFEITURE TO WILLIAM G.
WOODWORTH IN 1786. SERVED IN
REVOLUTION. PASSED TO HIRAM
WOODWORTH 1810-1910.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MI. W. MAYFIELD
[ARROW]
RICEVILLE CEMETERY
HERE ARE BURIED JONATHAN FISK-
OLIVER RICE-WILLIAM WOODWORTH-
SAMUEL WOODWORTH-JESSE FOOTE-
ISAAC BEMIS-JONATHAN CANFIELD-
SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 148 AT RICEVILLE

County: FULTON
Town: NORTHAMPTON, TOWN OF

"FISH HOUSE"
OF SIR WM. JOHNSON 1500
FT. NORTHEAST OF THIS MARKER
BUILT 1762. VILLAGE DERIVED
NAME FROM LODGE. BURNED
BY TORIES AND INDIANS, 1781
Location: ON CO. RD. AT NORTHAMPTON
COVERED BRIDGE
ERECTED 1818, BY STATE, AT
FISH HOUSE OVER SACANDAGA
RIVER. D. STEWART, BUILDER.
JACOB SHEW, ASSEMBLYMAN.
TORN DOWN 1930. 2000 FT. NORTH
Location: ON CO. RD. AT NORTHAMPTON
GODFREY SHEW
FIRST SETTLER FISH HOUSE
UNDER SIR WM. JOHNSON, 1762
SONS, JOHN, STEPHEN, JACOB
CAPTURED IN TORY & INDIAN RAID
JUNE 3, 1778. TAKEN TO CANADA
Location: ON CO. RD. AT NORTHAMPTON
MARVIN HOUSE
BUILT 1815 SITE SIR WM. JOHNSON'S
FISH HOUSE BY DAVID MARVIN, CONN.
REV. SOLDIER; HIS SON, DR. L.I. MARVIN
ASSEMBLYMAN 1840 FROM FULTON
CO. HOUSE MOVED 1929.
Location: ON CO. RD. AT NORTHAMPTON
SHEW HOUSE
BUILT 1784 BY GODFREY SHEW
AND HIS SONS JOHN, STEPHEN
AND JACOB AFTER THEIR RETURN
FROM CANADA AS PRISONERS OF
COL. ROSS ON JUNE 3, 1778
Location: ON CO. RD. AT NORTHAMPTON
SHEW'S HILL
ON JUNE 3, 1778 GODFREY SHEW
STATIONED HIS SON JACOB TO
REPORT APPROACH TORY AND INDIAN
RAIDERS UNDER COL. ROSS.
LATER FAMILY MADE PRISONERS.
Location: ON CO. RD. AT NORTHAMPTON
ST JOHN HOUSE
BUILT 1795 BY ALEX. ST. JOHN
ON CONFISCATED LANDS OF
COL. GUY JOHNSON, NEPHEW
OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
Location: ON CO. RD. AT NORTHAMPTON

County: GENESEE
Town: ALABAMA, TOWN OF

FORK OF GREAT
CENTRAL TRAIL
DATING FROM 16TH CENTURY
SW BRANCH TO BUFFALO
NW BRANCH TO LEWISTON
DEDICATED SEPT. 7, 1931
Location: ON MEADVILLE R. AT TONAWANDA CREEK
HOMESTEAD OF
ELY PARKER
SECRETARY TO GENERAL GRANT
BORN IN 1828, DIED IN 1895
SACHEM OF THE WOLF CLAIN
SENECA TITLE DO-NE-HO-GA-WA
Location: ON LEDGE RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BASOM

County: GENESEE
Town: BATAVIA, TOWN OF

BATAVIA
SEAT OF HOLLAND LAND
OFFICE. THIS CITY WAS
FOUNDED IN 1801 BY JOSEPH
ELLICOTT, LOCAL AGENT OF
HOLLAND LAND COMPANY
Location: ON NYS 5 IN CITY OF BATAVIA

County: GENESEE
Town: LEROY, TOWN OF

GANSON TAVERN
FIRST SETTLEMENT BETWEEN
GENESEE RIVER AND BUFFALO
TAVERN CONDUCTED BY
CHARLES WILBUR 1793
CAPT. JOHN GANSON 1797
Location: ON NYS 5 AT LEROY VILLAGE LINE
LEROY HOUSE
BUILT BEFORE 1812 AS A
LAND OFFICE FOR THE
TRIANGLE TRACT
DEEDED TO UNION FREE
SCHOOL DISTRICT 1911
Location: ON NYS 5 IN VILLAGE OF LEROY

County: GREENE
Town: ASHLAND, TOWN OF

EARLY CHURCH
FIRST CONGREATIONAL
CHURCH OF ASHLAND
BUILT HERE IN
OLD WINDHAM 1799
Location: ON NYS 23 ABOUT 1/2 MI. E. OF E. ASHLAND
TRINITY
CHURCH
INC. MAY 20, 1799
EARLIEST EPISCOPAL
ORGANIZATION OF OLD
TOWN OF WINDHAM
Location: ON NYS 23 AT E. ASHLAND

County: GREENE
Town: ATHENS, TOWN OF

A. VAN LOON
HOUSE
BUILT 1724 BY
ALBERTUS VAN LOON
OCCUPIED AS RESIDENCE
SINCE DATE OF ERECTION
Location: ON NYS 385 AT ATHENS
BLACK HORSE
INN
BUILT IN 1791
BY ISAAC HALLENBECK
Location: ON US 9W ABOUT 3 MIS. N.W. OF ATHENS
JAN VAN LOON
HOUSE
BUILT 1706 BY JAN VAN LOON
CHIEF HOLDER LOONEBURGH
PAT. 1688. ATHENS VILLAGE
FIRST CALLED LOONEBURGH
Location: ON NYS 385 AT ATHENS
NORTHRUP
HOUSE
BUILT 1803
HOME OF ISAAC NORTHRUP
FOUNDER OF ATHENS VILLAGE
INCORPORATED 1805
Location: ON NYS 385 AT ATHENS

County: GREENE
Town: CAIRO, TOWN OF

BARKER PATENT
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN
TOWN OF CAIRO
BY JAMES BARKER AND
TENANTRY IN 1791
Location: ON NYS 32 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF CAIRO
BELL FACTORY
OF WILLIAM BARTON
EARLIEST AMERICAN MAKER
OF SLEIGH BELLS
STOOD ON THIS STREAM
1828
Location: ON NYS 23 & NYS 145, S. CAIRO
IRON FORGE
OF ENOCH HYDE AND
BENJAMIN HALL STOOD AT
FIRST FALL 1788
FIRST IN GREENE COUNTY
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT PURLING
MASSACRE 1780
JOHANNES STROPE & WIFE
KILLED BY INDIANS
FREDERICK SCHERMERHORN
CARRIED CAPTIVE TO CANADA
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. SOUTHWEST OF PURLING

County: GREENE
Town: CATSKILL, TOWN OF

"UNCLE SAM"
BRIDGE
SAMUEL WILSON, WHOSE NAME
INSPIRED NATIONAL SYMBOL
"UNCLE SAM" LIVED NEARBY
FROM 1817-1822
Location: ON W. BRIDGE ST., CATSKILL
100 RODS NORTH [ARROW]
STOOD THE FIRST
GRIST MILL
IN GREENE COUNTY
BUILT IN 1675 BY
DIRCK T. VAN VECHTEN
Location: ON WATER ST., CATSKILL
CATSKILL
PACKET
FIRST NEWSPAPER IN COUNTY
PRINTED ON THIS SITE
BY MACKAY CROSWELL & CO.
AUGUST 6, 1792
Location: AT INTRSCTN. GREEN & MAIN STS. CATSKILL
HOME OF
REV. JOHANNES SCHUNEMAN
"DUTCH DOMINIE OF
THE CATSKILLS"
BUILT 1792
Location: ON TOWN RD., JEFFERSON HGTS.
HOP-O-NOSE
SITE OF INDIAN VILLAGE
PURCHASED FROM INDIANS
IN 1682
LOVERIDGE PATENT
Location: ON MAIN ST., CATSKILL
MARTIN
VAN BUREN
8TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
WAS MARRIED IN THIS HOUSE
TO HANNAH HOES IN 1807.
HOUSE BUILT IN 1797.
Location: ON W. MAIN ST., CATSKILL
OLD KATSKILL
HOUSE
BUILT IN 1729 BY GARRET VAN
BERGEN. BARN BUILT 1680 BY
MARTE GERRETSE VAN BERGEN.
FORMERLY INDIAN VILLAGE SITE.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. S. OF LEEDS
OLD KATSKILL
[ARROW]
REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF
KATSKILL AND KOCKSHACKIE
STOOD ON THIS HILL
BUILT 1733
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. S. OF LEEDS
PAPER MILL
FIRST IN GREENE COUTNY
1/4 MILE AT FOOT OF HILL
BUILT IN 1800 BY
NATHAN BENJAMIN
Location: NYS 23 & 145, JEFFERSON HGTS.
PIETER SOUSER'S INN
PLACE WHERE POLITICAL
MEETINGS WERE HELD
BEFORE 1797
RACETRACK OF THE
PIONEERS NEAR BY
Location: ON NYS 23 & 145 AT JEFFERSON HGTS.
SITE OF
FIRST LOG HOUSE
IN THIS VILLAGE
BUILT IN 1675
STOOD 100 FEET SOUTH
ALONG ROAD TO
FORDING PLACE
Location: ON NYS 23 & 145, LEEDS
STONE HOUSE
BUILT IN 1762 BY
LIEUT. COL. CORNELIUS DUBOIS.
SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS
CELEBRATED HERE.
Location: ON W. MAIN ST., CATSKILL
[ARROW]
PACHQUIACK
"OPEN COUNTRY"
PURCHASED FROM INDIANS
BY JAN BRONK, 1675
FORMERLY MADISON, NOW
LEEDS
Location: ON NYS 23, & 145, LEEDS
[ARROW]
OLD INN
OF MARTIN G. SCHUNEMAN
BUILT 1796
UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN 1805-1807
Location: ON NYS 23 & 145, LEEDS
[ARROW]
INDIAN TRAIL
TO
FORT ON ROUND TOP
NOW KAATERSKILL CLOVE
Location: ON NYS 23A & 32A ABOUT 1/2 MI. WEST PALENVILLE
[ARROW]
ABEEL HOUSE
BUILT ABOUT 1721 IN
THE BAK-OVEN
REBUILT ABOUT 1752
DAVID AND ANTHONY ABEEL
CAPTURED BY INDIANS 1780
Location: ON NYS 23A ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF KISKATOM
[ARROW]
HOUSE BUILT IN 1814
BY
CAPT. JOS. ALLEN
SEA CAPTAIN
DURING REVOLUTION
Location: NYS 23 & 145, JEFFERSON HGTS.
[ARROW]
FOOTPATH
FROM OLD INDIAN FORT
CALLED CASTEEL HOOGTE
TO COXSACKIE
Location: ON NYS 23 & 145 AT JEFFERSON HGTS.

County: GREENE
Town: COXSACKIE, TOWN OF

"FIRST HOUSE ON THE HILL"
BUILT BY DR. JOHN ELY OF
NEWRY, ALBANY COUNTY, ABOUT
THE YEAR 1800.
Location: ON ELY ST., COXSACKIE
BRONCK HOUSE
OLDEST HOUSE USED AS SUCH
IN GREENE COUNTY
BUILT BY
PIETER BRONCK
1663
Location: ON PRIVATE RD. 300 FT. OFF US 9W, 1 1/2 MI. S. OF COXSACKIE

County: GREENE
Town: DURHAM, TOWN OF

1/2 MILE TO [ARROW]
MEETING HOUSE HILL
BRONZE TABLET AND BOULDER
MARK THE SITE OF FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, DURHAM
ORGANIZED NOVEMBER 8, 1792
Location: ON NYS 145, DURHAM
R.R. DISASTER
IN 1840 ONE HALF MILE EAST
TRAIN PLUNGED THROUGH TRESTLE
INTO CREEK AT HIGH ROCK
ENDED CAREER OF CANAJOHARIE-
CATSKILL RAILROAD
Location: ON NYS 145 ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. W. OF VLG. OF EAST DURHAM

County: GREENE
Town: GREENVILLE, TOWN OF

BENJAMIN SPEES
SETTLED HERE IN 1781
IN A LOG CABIN
BUILT BY A TORY
Location: ON NYS 32 AT GREENVILLE
DR. JOHN ELY
FIRST PHYSICIAN IN
TOWN OF GREENVILLE
LIVED IN THIS HOUSE
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. NORTH OF E. GREENVILLE
EARLY SAWMILL
OWNED AND OPERATED BY
ELEAZER KNOWLES
STOOD ON THIS SITE
Location: ON NYS 32 ABOUT 3 MI. S. OF GREENVILLE
FIRST SCHOOL
A CABIN BUILT OF LOGS
STOOD ON THIS SITE
FIRST TEACHER WAS A SON OF
REV. ELEAZER HOTCHKIN
Location: ON NYS 32 AT GREENVILLE
GREENVILLE
1803 TOWN TAKEN FROM
FREEHOLD AND COXSACKIE
CALLED GREENFIELD, FIRST
TOWN MEETING HELD
1809 NAMED GREENVILLE
Location: AT INTRSCTON. NYS 32 & 81 AT GREENVILLE
SITE OF
EARLY TANNERY
OWNED BY DANIEL MILLER
WHO CAME FROM
EAST HAMPTON, L.I.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. NORTH OF E. GREENVILLE
SITE OF LOG CABIN OF
ELEAZER
KNOWLES
PIONEER WHO SETTLED HERE
IN 1781 ON A 600 ACRE LOT
Location: ON NYS 32 ABOUT 1 MI. S. OF GREENVILLE
SITE OF LOG CABIN OF
EDWARD LAKE
PIONEER WHO SETTLED HERE
IN 1781 ON A 600 ACRE LOT
Location: ON NYS 32 AT GREENVILLE

County: GREENE
Town: PRATTSVILLE, TOWN OF

REFORMED
CHURCH
FIRST IN MOUNTAIN TOWNS
OF GREENE COUNTY
ORGANIZED IN 1798
CHURCH BUILT IN 1804
Location: ON NYS 23 AT PRATTSVILLE

County: GREENE
Town: WINDHAM, TOWN OF

[ARROW]
AGAINST THIS ROCK
GEORGE STIMSON
FIRST SETTLER OF THE
TOWN OF WINDHAM
BUILT HIS LOG CABIN
IN 1785
Location: ON NYS 23 AT WINDHAM
[ARROW]
FIRST
LOG HOUSE
BUILT HERE IN 1818
BY JOHN HENSON
FOUNDER OF HENSONVILLE
Location: ON NYS 23 AT HENSONVILLE

County: HERKIMER
Town: COLUMBIA, TOWN OF

MASONIC LODGE
BUILT BY D.V.W. GOLDEN 1812
FOR WARREN LODGE NO. 155
ORGANIZED MARCH 4, 1807
CEASED PAYING DUES 1818.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. W. OF ORENDORF CORNERS
ORENDORF BARN
FIRST BUILDING WHERE
RELIGIOUS SERVICE WAS HELD
BODIES WERE BURIED UNTIL
1803 AT NORTHEAST CORNER
Location: ON NYS 28 ABOUT 1/2 MI. N. OF ORENDORF CORNERS
PETRIE'S CORNERS
ON ROUTE OF SCOUT ADAM F.
HELMER'S FAMOUS RUN TO WARN
SETTLERS OF GERMAN FLATTS OF
APPROACH OF BRANT'S INDIANS
SEPTEMBER 17, 1778
Location: AT INTERSECTION COUNTY RDS. AT COLUMBIA CENTER
PIONEER HOME
OF COL. JACOB D. PETRIE,
WHO WITH SIX SONS
FOUNDED PETRIE'S CORNERS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF COUNTY RDS. AT COLUMBIA CENTER
REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH
CHURCH, ORGANIZED JULY 8,
1798. CEMETERY DEDICATED
1803. HAS 20 REVOLUTIONARY
VETERANS AND 22
SOLDIERS OF WAR OF 1812
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1 MI. W. OF ORENDORF CORNERS
SITE OF
FIRST STORE
AND HOUSE BUILT BY DAVID
V.W. GOLDEN BEFORE 1798,
WHO WAS FIRST JUDGE OF
COURT HELD AT WHITESTOWN.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. W. OF ORENDORF CORNERS
SITE OF
PIONEER HOME
OF ANDREW MILLER & 6 SONS
WHO FOUNDED MILLER'S MILLS
ABOUT 1790. BUILT
SAWMILL AND GRISTMILL.
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT MILLERS MILLS

County: HERKIMER
Town: DANUBE, TOWN OF

FT. HENDRICK
1754-1760
BRITISH POST GUARDING
MOHAWK CASTLE. NAMED FOR
KING HENDRICK KILLED
AT LAKE GEORGE, SEPT. 1755
Location: ON NYS 5 AT LEROY VILLAGE LINE

County: HERKIMER
Town: FRANKFORT, TOWN OF

FOLTS HOMESTEAD
ERECTED 1796 BY MAJOR WARNER FOLTS
WHO SERVED IN WAR OF 1812 AT
SACKETS HARBOR; MEMBER OF
ASSEMBLY 1823-24. HOUSE OCCUPIED
SINCE BY HIS DESCENDANTS
Location: ON NYS 5S AT ILION
OLD REMINGTON HOMESTEAD
BUILT IN 1799 BY ELIPHALET
REMINGTON WHO FORGED THE
FIRST REMINGTON GUN;
BIRTHPLACE OF PHILO
REMINGTON
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 4 MIS. S.W. OF ILION

County: HERKIMER
Town: GERMAN FLATTS, TOWN OF

F.E. SPINNER HOME
HERKIMER CO. SHERIFF 1834
MEMBER OF CONGRESS 1854-1860
APPOINTED TREASURER OF THE
UNITED STATES BY LINCOLN
SERVED 1861-1875
Location: ON NYS 5S & NYS 28 AT MOHAWK
MOHAWK'S FIRST
PUBLIC SCHOOL
BUILT IN 1809 ON THIS SITE. USED
AS A SCHOOL UNTIL 1853. SERVED
AS A CHURCH FOR FIVE YEARS.
HOUSE NOW STANDS IN REAR
Location: ON NYS 28 AT MOHAWK
SHOEMAKER TAVERN
BUILT BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
GEN. WASHINGTON HAD DINNER HERE
UNDER TREE ON HIS VALLEY TOUR IN
1783. WALTER BUTLER CAPTURED
HERE; LATER ESCAPED ALBANY JAIL
Location: ON NYS 5S AT MOHAWK
TRAIL OF SCOUT
ADAM F. HELMER
ENTERING MOHAWK VALLEY TO
WARN GERMAN FLATTS OF APPROACH
OF BRANT'S INDIANS, SEPT. 17,
1778
Location: ON NYS 5S AT MOHAWK

County: HERKIMER
Town: LITCHFIELD, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD
1809-1873
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE
OF VIRGINIA. APPOINTED
BY PRES. LINCOLN 1863
Location: ON TN. RD. AT JERUSALEM HILL
BIRTHPLACE OF
CHARLES F. WHEELOCK
1849-1928
SCHOOL TEACHER AND
EDUCATOR FOR HALF CENTURY
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. N. OF CRANES CORNERS
FURNACE SITE
OF LITCHFIELD IRON MFG. CO.
INCORPORATED 1813
MAKERS OF PIG IRON AND
VARIOUS KINDS OF
IRON HOLLOW WARE
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MI. S. OF GULPH
HOME SITE OF
ELIJAH SNOW
WHO SETTLED HERE IN 1786
LOCALITY THEN CALLED
SNOW'S BUSH
NOW LITCHFIELD
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1 MI. N. OF CRANES CORNERS
HOME SITE OF
JERUSALEM
HILL CEMETERY
OLDEST BURIAL GROUND IN
TOWN OF LITCHFIELD
FIRST INTERMENT IN 1791
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT JERUSALEM HILL
OLIVE BRANCH LODGE
NO. 40, F. AND A.M.
FIRST MEETING ON THIS SITE
JULY 16, 1812. DEWITT CLINTON
WAS GRAND MASTER AT THE TIME
Location: ON CO. RD. AT CRANES CORNERS
SITE OF
AVERY HOMESTEAD
PURCHASED IN 1819 BY
JOHN STANTON AVERY, ONE OF THE
EARLIER SETTLERS IN LITCHFIELD.
HOME DESTROYED
BY FIRE IN 1934.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 4 MIS. S.W. OF ILION
SITE OF HOME OF
NATHANIEL BALL
WHERE THE FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH IN LITCHFIELD
WAS ORGANIZED
MARCH 15, 1795
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. S. OF GULPH

County: HERKIMER
Town: NORWAY, TOWN OF

A RAIDING FORCE LED BY
MAJOR ROSS & WALTER
BUTLER WAS HERE ATTACKED
BY COL. MARINUS WILLET'S
PATRIOT SOLDIERS
OCTOBER 30, 1781
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3 MIS. S.E. OF GRAY
IN THIS CEMETERY ARE THE
GRAVES OF SOLDIERS OF THE
FOUR WARS
FRENCH-INDIAN, REVOLUTION,
WAR OF 1812, CIVIL WAR
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT NORWAY

County: HERKIMER
Town: OHIO, TOWN OF

WOOD HOME
WHEELOCK WOOD (1794-1887)
WIFE, HANNAH SOUTHWICK COMSTOCK
(1797-1892) OF MASS. LOCATED HERE IN
1829 AND BUILT THIS HOUSE.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 4 MIS. E., GRAY

County: HERKIMER
Town: POLAND, TOWN OF

OCTAGONAL HOUSE
BUILT ABOUT 1850 BY
LINUS YALE
INVENTOR OF THE
YALE LOCK
Location: ON NYS 28 AT NEWPORT
THE YALE LOCK
WAS FIRST MADE BY
LINUS YALE
IN A SHOP ON THIS SITE
1847
Location: ON NYS 28 AT NEWPORT

County: HERKIMER
Town: SCHUYLER, TOWN OF

EAST OF THIS POINT
OF BRIDENBECKER CREEK
JOHN FINSTER BUILT THE
FIRST SAWMILL
OPERATED SUCCESSFULLY
IN TOWN OF SCHUYLER
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. N. OF EAST SCHUYLER
FIRST CHURCH
SCHOOL HOUSE
IN TOWN OF SCHUYLER
BUILT HERE IN 1809
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 3 MIS. N. OF EAST SCHUYLER
FIRST PUBLIC
BURYING GROUND
1766-1840
IN TOWN OF SCHUYLER
WAS LOCATED ON THIS FLAT
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. N. OF EAST SCHUYLER
NEW PETERSBURGH
FORT
A STOCKADE BUILT AND USED
BY THE PIONEERS OF SCHUYLER
PRIOR TO AND DURING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 3 MIS. WEST OF NORTH ILION
SITE OF HOME
HEINRICH STARING
B. 1730 - D. 1808
CAPTAIN 4TH REGIMENT TRYON
COUNTY MILITIA AND 1ST JUDGE
OF COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
OF HERKIMER COUNTY
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 4 MIS. EAST OF WEST SCHUYLER

County: HERKIMER
Town: WARREN, TOWN OF

HENDERSON HOUSE
FORMER CRUGER MANSION
GRANT 1739
FRAME HOUSE BUILT 1787
STONE HOUSE BUILT 1832
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 4 MIS. N. OF JORDANVILLE
JOHN TUNNICLIFF, JR.
B. 1751, DERBY, ENGLAND, CAME
TO AMERICA 1772; REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIER; SETTLED HERE 1793;
DIED 1814; BURIED ONE MILE
SOUTH, TUNNICLIFF CEMETERY.
Location: ON US 20 AT WARREN
MARSHALL CEMETERY
[ARROW] 1/2 MILE
JOHN MARSHALL, 1764-1863
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER; WITH
WASHINGTON AT YORKTOWN; WITNESSED
SURRENDER OF
CORNWALLIS.
Location: ON US 20 AT WARREN
SITE OF
PAUL CRIM HOUSE
PAUL CRIM CAME FROM GERMANY
ABOUT 1757. ONE OF FOUNDERS
OF ANDRUSTOWN. HOUSE BURNED
AT ANDRUSTOWN MASSACRE.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. S. OF HENDERSON
SITE OF HOME OF FREDERICK
BELL, FEDERICK, JR.
AND WIFE DOROTHY CRIM
FATHER AND SON MASSACRED
FREDERICK BELL III STOLEN
BY INDIANS--JULY 18, 1778
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. N. OF CRANES CORNERS

County: JEFFERSON
Town: ANTWERP, TOWN OF

CAROLINE C. BONAPARTE
DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH BONAPARTE
AND ANNETTE SAVAGE AND
WIFE OF COL. Z.H. BENTON
DIED DECEMBER 25, 1890
BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY

County: JEFFERSON
Town: BROWNVILLE, TOWN OF

BABCOCK HOMESTEAD
ERECTED 1832-33 BY JESSE
BABCOCK; STATION ON
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
PASSING NEGRO SLAVES
OVER CANADIAN BORDER
Location: INTERSECTION OF KIRBY & BROWN STS. AT DEXTER
BROWN MANSION
HOME OF GEN. JACOB BROWN
COMMANDER OF NORTHERN FRONTIER
FORCES, WAR OF 1812
COMMANDING GENERAL U.S. ARMY
1821 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1828
Location: ON MAIN ST. IN BROWNVILLE

County: JEFFERSON
Town: CAPE VINCENT, TOWN OF

CARLETON IS.
OCCUPIED BY BRITISH 1774
FT. HALDIMAND
BUILT BY BRITISH-IROUQUOIS
1778-79. CAPTURED BY
AMERICANS IN 1812
Location: ON NYS 12E ABOUT 2 MIS. EAST OF CAPE VINCENT VILLAGE
CUP-AND-SAUCER
HOUSE
BUILT NEAR THIS SITE
BY COUNT PIERRE FANCOIS
REAL IN 1816 AS REFUGE
FOR NAPOLEON. BURNED 1867
Location: AT RIVER'S EDGE ON W. SIDE REAL ST., CAPE VINCENT VILGE.
DURING THE
WAR OF 1812
AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE
HOUSED IN BARRACKS ERECTED
HERE AND AT THE FOOT OF
JAMES STREET
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF BRAODWAY & JAMES ST., CAPE VINCENT
FRENCH
CATH. CHURCH
BUILT HERE 1832 BY EARLY
SETTLERS. HEROES OF
NAPOLEON'S ARMY & FRENCH
REFUGEES WORSHIPPED HERE
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF ROSIERE
KENT'S CREEK
SITE OF FIRST GRIST MILL
IN THE TOWN OF
CAPE VINCENT
BUILT PRIOR TO 1809
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MILS. SOUTHWEST OF ROSIERE
MILLENS BAY
IN JUNE 1812 ABNER HUBBARD
WITH OTHER AMERICANS
CROSSED TO CARLETON ISLAND
AND CAPTURED FT. HALDIMAND
WITH ITS BRITISH GARRISON
Location: ON NYS 12E AT RIVERVIEW
STONE HOUSE
BUILT IN 1815 BY
J.D. LE RAY DE CHAUMONT
HERE CANADIAN REBELS WERE
SHELTERED DURING
PATRIOT WAR, 1838
Location: N. SIDE B'WAY IN WESTERN PART, CAPE VINCENT VLGE.
TIBBITS POINT
LIGHTHOUSE
FIRST IN JEFFERSON COUNTY
BUILT 1827, REBUILT 1854
Location: AT TIBBITS PT. LIGHTHOUSE S.W. OF CAPE VINCENT
[ARROW]
MEMORIAL ALTAR
ON SITE OF OLD FRENCH
CATHOLIC CHURCH ERECTED BY
JAMES LE RAY DE CHAUMONT
1832
Location: ON NYS 12E ABOUT 3 MILES S.E. OF CAPE VINCENT
[ARROW]
GRENADIER ISLAND
VISITED BY EARLY FRENCH
AND ENGLISH EXPLORERS
RENDEZVOUS OF AMERICAN
EXPEDITION AGAINST CANADA
UNDER GEN. WILKINSON, 1813
Location: BROWN SCHOOL HOUSE RD. & PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD

County: JEFFERSON
Town: CLAYTON, TOWN OF

BARTLETT'S POINT
AMERICAN BATTERY
UNDER CAPT. McPHERSON
ON HEIGHTS NEAR RIVER
ERECTED NOVEMBER, 1813
Location: ROUTE 12E, 1/2 MILE FROM CLAYTON TOWARD CAPE VINCENT
CHURCH BUILT 1834-35
FRANCIS DEPAU DEEDED SITE
FOR HOUSE OF WORSHIP THAT
SHALL FOREVER AT ALL TIMES
BE OPEN AND FREE TO THE
USE OF ALL DENOMINATIONS
Location: ON NYS 12 NEAR INTERSECTION WITH NYS 179, DEPAUVILLE
ELM FLAT CHURCH
FORTY RODS TO THE EAST
STOOD THE FIRST CHURCH
IN THE TOWN OF CLAYTON
A LOG BUILDING BUILT 1820
BY THE FREE WILL BAPTISTS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF CO. RD. & NYS 12 & 179 ABOUT 3/4 MI N.W. OF DEPAUVILLE
ONONDAGA TRAILS
JUNCTION OF WAR TRAILS
BETWEEN LAKE ONTARIO AND
THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 12 & NYS 179, DEPAUVILLE
PENET SQUARE
N.W. CORNER OF A TRACT
TEN MILES SQUARE CEDED TO
PETER PENET
BY THE ONEIDA INDIANS
SEPTEMBER 22, 1788
Location: ON ROUTE 12E AT CLAYTON
WETERINGHRA
GUENTERE
ANCIENT SITE OF ALGONQUIN
FORT & 1ST LAND PAT. IN
COUNTY, 1789. CLAYTON
VILLAGE SETTLED HERE 1820
Location: ON CAPE VINCENT-CLAYTON ROAD, ROUTE 12E AT CLAYTON

County: JEFFERSON
Town: DEXTER, TOWN OF

FIRST PRESBYERIAN
CHURCH, DEXTER
FOUNDED JULY 2, 1839
WITH EIGHTEEN MEMBERS;
PASTOR, REV. DEXTER CLARY.

County: JEFFERSON
Town: ELLISBURG, TOWN OF

AFTER THE BATTLE OF
BIG SANDY
MAY 28, 1814
THIS HOUSE WAS USED AS A
HOSPITAL
FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS
Location: ON NYS 3 ABOUT 2 MIS. N. OF OSWEGO-JEFFERSON CO. LINE
BONNIE VIEW
BIRTHPLACE AND HOME OF
MARIETTA HOLLEY
1840-1926
AUTHOR "SAMANTHA" NOVELS
PEN NAME "JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE"
Location: ON US 11 ABOUT 2 MIS. NORTH OF PIERREPONT MANOR
FAIR VIEW
BOUGHT BY EBENEZER WOOD
1804
CONTINUOUSLY OCCUPIED BY
WOOD FAMILY SINCE THAT DATE
Location: ON ROUTE 193 AT WOODVILLE

County: JEFFERSON
Town: HENDERSON, TOWN OF

CAMP DE
L'OBSERVATION
ERECTED BY THE FRENCH
IN 1756
ASSOCIATION ISLAND
Location: W. SIDE NYS 3 AT STATE-OWNED OBS.PT. ABOUT 4 MIS. S.W. OF SACKETS HARBOR
SAMUEL DE
CHAMPLAIN
FIRST WHITE MAN TO ENTER
HENDERSON, OCTOBER, 1615
PASSED OVER INDIAN
TRAIL HERE
Location: 1/2 MILE FROM HENDERSON ON THE STONY POINT RIFLE RANGE ROAD AT END OF HENDERSON HABOR

County: JEFFERSON
Town: HOUNSFIELD, TOWN OF

AUGUSTUS SACKET
PIONEER OF SACKET HARBOR.
BOUGHT TRACT IN HOUNSFIELD
1801. 1ST JUDGE, JEFFERSON CO.
B. N.Y. CITY NOV. 10, 1769
D. ALBANY, N.Y. APR. 29, 1827
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF MAIN & RAY STS. AT SACKETS HARBOR
BLANCHARD STAND
ERECTED HERE IN 1823
BY STEPHEN BLANCHARD
REBUILT 1867 AND KNOWN AS
HALF-WAY-HOUSE TILL 1913
A FAMOUS COUNTRY INN
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 3 & CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. W. WATERTOWN
BLOCKHOUSE
ERECTED IN 1812 FOR DEFENSE
AGAINST THE BRITISH ATTACK
STONE HOUSE THE
TISDALE HOMESTEAD
ERECTED 1819
Location: S. SIDE WASHINGTON ST. BETWEEN BROAD ST. & RR, SACKETS HARBOR
FORT CHAUNCEY
WAR OF 1812
NAMED FOR COMMODORE
ISAAC CHAUNCEY
Location: E. SIDE MONROE ST. N. OF MAIN ST. AT SACKETS HARBOR
FORT KENTUCKY
WAR OF 1812
28 GUNS
BLOCKHOUSE IN CENTER
Location: S. SIDE WASHINGTON ST. NEAR LAKE, SACKETS HARBOR
FORT TOMPKINS
ON NAVY POINT
WAR OF 1812
NAMED FOR GOVERNOR
DANIEL D. TOMPKINS
Location: INTERSECTION MAIN ST. & ROAD ALONG LAKE SHORE. PROPERTY US COAST GUARD, SACKETS HARBOR
FORT VIRGINIA
WAR OF 1812
ARMED WITH 16 GUNS
Location: S. SIDE WASHINGTON ST., W. OF BROAD ST., SACKETS HARBOR
HOME OF
DR. SAMUEL GUTHRIE
BORN 1782-DIED 1848
DISCOVERED CHLOROFORM, 1831
INVENTED PERCUSSION CAPS
SURGEON IN WAR OF 1812
Location: N. SIDE CO. RD. BETWEEN SACKETS HARBOR & JEWETTVILLE
OLD ROMEROAD
BUILT ABOUT 1803 FROM ROME
TO PUTNAM'S FERRY ON THE
ST. LAWRENCE RIVER NEAR
CAPE VINCENT
SITE OF
FORT PIKE
BEHIND THESE BREASTWORKS
WAS BLOCKHOUSE ERECTED BY
AMERICANS FOR DEFENSE
AGAINST BRITISH, WAR OF 1812
Location: ALONG LAKE FRONT WITHIN MADISON BARRACKS AT SACKETS HARBOR
UNION HOTEL - APRIL 1817
BUILT BY FREDERIC WHITE
1ST MASONIC LODGE JEFFERSON CO.
ONTARIO LODGE FORMED APRIL 4, 1805
ATHOL LODGE FORMED 1818
SACKETS LODGE FORMED 1848
Location: AT INTERSECTION MAIN & RAY STS. AT SACKETS HARBOR
WAR OF 1812
LANDING OF BRITISH
DAYBREAK, SUNDAY
JULY 19, 1812
Location: END OF TOWN RD. ALONG LAKE SHORE, SACKET HARBOR

County: JEFFERSON
Town: LAFARGEVILLE, VILLAGE OF

TOLL GATE-1852
CLAYTON THERESA PLANK ROAD
ON CREEK SIX RODS SOUTH
IS SITE OF COLE'S SAW MILL
BUILT 1835
19 GUNS AT ARRIVAL IN VILLAGE
Location: ON LAFARGEVILLE-DEPAUVILLE COUNTY ROAD, NEAR LAFARGEVILLE

County: JEFFERSON
Town: LERAY, TOWN OF

LE RAY MANSION
BUILT IN 1825 BY
JAMES LE RAY DE CHAUMONT
EARLY LANDHOLDER AND
DISTINGUISHED BENEFACTOR
OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.

County: JEFFERSON
Town: LYME, TOWN OF

INDEPENDENCE POINT
SCENE OF FIRST CELEBRATION
OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
HELD IN JEFFERSON COUNTY
JULY 4, 1802
Location: ON ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE POINT AT CHAUMONT, 1 MILE SOUTH OF CRESCENT YACHT CLUB
SOPER'S CABIN
NEAR THIS SPOT JAMES SOPER
BUILT A LOG CABIN IN 1815
IT WAS THE MEETING POINT
OF ROADS FROM CAPE VINCENT
CHAUMONT AND ALEXANDRIA

County: JEFFERSON
Town: ORLEANS, TOWN OF

MULLET CREEK
GRIST MILL BUILT 1820
BY WILLIAM AND TREAT
MUDGE AT MUDGES MILLS
RENAMED OMAR IN 1843
Location: JUST OFF ROUTE 180 AT THE HAMLET OF OMAR
PEEL DOCK-WELLS ISLAND
THE NIGHT OF MAY 29, 1838
A PARTY OF AMERICAN
DISGUISED AS INDIANS
BURNED THE BRITISH
Location: ON WELLSLEY ISLAND UNDER THE AMERICAN SPAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE
SITE OF
FIRST MILL
ERECTED 1819 AT
LOG MILLS
RENAMED LAFARGEVILLE
JULY 4, 1823
Location: ON NYS 180, LAFARGEVILLE

County: JEFFERSON
Town: SACKETS HARBOR, VILLAGE OF

FORT VOLUNTEER
WAR OF 1812
BUILT BY REVOLUTIONARY
VETERANS WITHOUT PAY
STEAMER SIR ROBERT PEEL
Location: ON WATERFRONT OF MADISON BARRACKS AT SACKETS HARBOR
MILITARY ROAD
BUILT BY SOLDIERS OF WAR
OF 1812, LOCATED AT FEDERAL
POSTS AT SACKETS HARBOR
AND PLATTSBURG, ABOUT 1818.
PRESIDENT
JAMES MONROE
WAS GREETED BY SURVIVORS OF
REVOLUTION AT THIS BRIDGE
AUGUST 4, 1817. SALUTED WITH
SACKETT MANSION
BUILT BY COL. AUGUSTUS
SACKETT 1801-1802
USED AS A HOSPITAL IN
WAR OF 1812

County: JEFFERSON
Town: WATERTOWN, TOWN OF

OLD PLANK ROAD
BUILT FROM WATERTOWN TO
SACKETS HARBOR 1847-8
WAS FIRST PLANK ROAD
IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.

County: KINGS
Town: NONE

GRAVESEND
SETTLED IN 1643 BY ENGLISH
QUAKERS UNDER LADY DEBORAH
MOODY ON LAND GRANTED TO THEM
BY THE DUTCH GOVERNOR OF
NEW AMSTERDAM
Location: CEMETERY BETWEEN SOUTH VILLAGE RD. AND NECK RD.
GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY
LT. COL. ROBERT BENSON, 1739-1823,
BURIED HERE; AIDE-DE-CAMP TO GOV.
GEORGE CLINTON IN REVOLUTION;
CLERK, NEW YORK STATE SENATE.
Location: BROOKLYN
MARYLAND HEROES
HERE LIE BURIED 256
SOLDIERS OF THE MARYLAND
BATTALION WHO FELL IN THE
BATTLE OF BROOKLYN ON THE
27TH OF AUGUST, 1776
Location: ON CORNER OF 7TH ST. BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH AVE.
MAZZOLA HOME
PROPERTY ONCE OWNED BY
PHILIP LIVINGSTON - SIGNER
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
HOME - BROOKLYN EXCELSIORS
BASEBALL CHAMPIONS - 1860
Location: 133 CLINTON ST., BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11201

County: LEWIS
Town: CONSTABLEVILLE, VILLAGE OF

CONSTABLE HALL
1819
ENGLISH MANOR TYPE BUILT BY
WILLIAM CONSTABLE, SON OF
WM. CONSTABLE, WHO OPENED
LARGE TRACTS FOR SETTLEMENTS
Location: ON WEST SIDE OF NYS 26 IB W. MAIN ST., CONSTABLEVILLE

County: LEWIS
Town: DENMARK, TOWN OF

FREEDOM WRIGHT'S INN
MEETING HELD HERE IN 1804
RESULTED IN FORMATION OF
JEFFERSON AND LEWIS COUNTIES
IN 1805
Location: ON NYS 26, VLGE. OF DENMARK

County: LEWIS
Town: LEWIS, TOWN OF

MOHAWK RIVER
THE HISTORIC MOHAWK RIVER
RISES ONE-HALF MILE TO
THE NORTHEAST AND FLOWS
UNDER THIS BRIDGE
Location: ON EAST SIDE OF NYS 26 IN VILLAGE OF WEST LEYDEN

County: LEWIS
Town: LEYDEN, TOWN OF

BLACK RIVER CANAL
THE PIERS SUPPORTING THIS
VIADUCT ONCE CARRIED THE
WATERS OF THE BLACK RIVER
CANAL ACROSS SUGAR RIVER.
CANAL WAS IN USE TO 1915
Location: ON NYS 12 NEAR THE LEWIS-ONEIDA COUNTY LINE

County: LEWIS
Town: MARTINSBURG, TOWN OF

GREYSTONE MANOR
ERECTED 1803-1805
HOME OF GEN. WALTER MARTIN
INDUSTRIAL, RELIGIOUS,
CIVIC AND EDUCATIONAL LEADER
IN LEWIS COUNTY
Location: ON WEST SIDE OF NYS 12D IN VILLAGE OF MARTINSBURG
HOUGH'S CAVE
HIDING PLACE OF RUNAWAY
SLAVES BEFORE THE CIVIL
WAR AND STATION ON THE
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
TO CANADA
Location: ON NYS 12D & NYS 26 ABOUT 1 MI. S. OF MARTINSBURG

County: LEWIS
Town: NEAR ROAD MARKER

HOUGH'S CAVE
HIDING PLACE OF RUNAWAY
SLAVES BEFORE THE CIVIL
WAR AND STATION ON THE
UNDER GROUND RAILWAY
TO CANADA
Location: NYS 26

County: LEWIS
Town: WEST TURIN, TOWN OF

BLACK RIVER CANAL
HERE HAD ITS NORTHERN
TERMINUS 35 MILES FROM ITS
BEGINNING AT ROME AND
HERE JOINED THE BLACK
RIVER - NAVIGABLE TO CARTHAGE
Location: ON VILLAGE STREET AT CANAL BANK IN LYONS FALLS
CONSTABLE HALL
1819
ENGLISH MANOR TYPE. BUILT BY
WILLIAM CONSTABLE, SON OF
WM. CONSTABLE WHO OPENED
LARGE TRACTS FOR SETTLEMENTS
Location: ON CHURCH ST. IN VILLAGE OF CONSTAVLEVILLE AT ENTRANCE TO CONSTABLE HALL
CONSTABLE HALL
1819
ENGLISH MANOR TYPE. BUILT BY
WILIAM CONSTABLE, SON OF
WM. CONSTABLE WHO OPENED
LARGE TRACTS FOR SETTLEMENTS
Location: ON WEST SIDE OF NYS 26 ON W. MAIN ST., CONSTABLEVILLE

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: CALEDONIA, TOWN OF

BIG SPRINGS
ANCIENT INDIAN CAMP SITE
ON NIAGARA TRAIL
EARLIEST WHITE TOUREIST 1615
SCOTTISH SETTLERS 1799
TERMINUS PIONEER R.R. 1838
Location: ON NYS 5 AT CALEDONIA
CALEDONIA
ORGANIZED 1803 AS TOWN OF
SOUTHAMPTON; NAME CHANGED
TO CALEDONIA 1806; SCOTTISH
EMIGRANTS SETTLED 1799
VILLAGE INCORPORATED 1891
Location: ON NYS 5 AT WEST END OF CALEDONIA
CALEDONIA
ORGANIZED 1803 AS TOWN OF
SOUTHAMPTON; NAME CHANGED
TO CALEDONIA 1806; SCOTTISH
EMIGRANTS SETTLED 1799
VILLAGE INCORPORATED 1891
Location: ON NYS 5 AT SOUTH END OF CALEDONIA
CALEDONIA
ORGANIZED 1803 AS TOWN OF
SOUTHAMPTON; NAME CHANGED
TO CALEDONIA 1806; SCOTTISH
EMIGRANTS SETTLED 1799
VILLAGE INCORPORATED 1891
Location: ON NYS 36 AT NORTH END OF CALEDONIA
ERECTED 1826
BY MAJOR GAD BLAKSLEE
EARLY POST OFFICE
FIRST BANK
APOTHECARY SHOP
NOW CALEDONIA LIBRARY
Location: ON NYS 5 AT CALEDONIA
ERECTED 1827
BY JAMES R. CLARK
EARLY TAVERN, POSTOFFICE,
EARLY BANK, LIBRARY
CERTIFIED BY HISTORIC
AMERICAN BUILDING SURVEY
Location: ON NYS 5 AT CALEDONIA
JOHN HUGH
MAC NAUGHTON
1826-1891
LIVED HERE 20 YEARS
FAMOUS POET AND SONG WRITER
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALEDONIA

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: CONESUS, TOWN OF

MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON US 15 AT FOOTS CORNERS
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 256 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF MAPLE BEACH
UNION CEMETERY
HERE IS BURIED
CAPTAIN DANIEL SHAYS
1747-1825
SERVED IN THE REVOLUTION
LEADER OF SHAYS' REBELLION
Location: ON NYS 256 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF SCOTTSBURG

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: GENESEO, TOWN OF

ABOUT 1/4 MILE WEST
TREATY OF
BIG TREE
SITE OF MEMORABLE TREATY
RELEASING SENECA TITLE TO
3,600,000 ACRES OF LAND
SEPTEMBER 15, 1797
Location: ON NYS 63 AT GENESEO

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: GROVELAND, TOWN OF

1 MILE
GROVELAND HILL
TORY-INDIAN AMBUSH
SULLIVAN EXPEDITION
1779
FIFTEEN SCOUTS KILLED
BOYD AND PARKER CAPTURED
Location: ON NYS 256 AT MAPLE BEACH
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 63 ABOUT 1 1/4 MILES SOUTH OF HAMPTON CORNERS
SITE OF
WILLIAMSBURG
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN COUNTY
ESTABLISHED 1792 BY
CHARLES WILLIAMSON
Location: ON NYS 63 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF GENESEO
[ARROW]
GROVELAND HILL
TORY-INDIAN AMBUSH
SULLIVAN EXPEDITION
1779
FIFTEEN SCOUTS KILLED
BOYD AND PARKER CAPTURED
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF MAPLE BEACH

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: LEICESTER, TOWN OF

2 MILES [ARROW]
BOYD-PARKER
TOURTURE TREE AND BURIAL
MOUND. WESTERN LIMIT
SULLIVAN'S EXPEDITION
1779. SENECA VILLAGE
LITTLE BEARD'S TOWN
Location: AT INTERSECTION US 20A & BYS 36 AT LEICESTER
BOYD-PARKER
TORTURE TREE AND BURIAL
MOUND. WESTERN LIMIT
SULLIVAN'S EXPEDITION
1779. SENECA VILLAGE
LITTLE BEARD TOWN
Location: ON US 20 A & NYS 39 ABOUT 1/2 MI. EAST OF CUYLERVILLE
SITE OF
GA-ON-DO-WA-NUH
(BIG TREE)
SENECA INDIAN VILLAGE
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. N. OF CUYLERVILLE
SITE OF
DE-YU-IT-GA-OH
(VALLEY BEGINS TO WIDEN)
SENECA INDIAN VILLAGE
THE SPRING USED BY
MARY JEMISON IS NEARBY
Location: ON SQUAWKIE HILL RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. S. OF LEICESTER
THIS
LOG HOUSE
ERECTED AND OCCUPIED
BY THOMAS JEMISON
(BUFFALO TOM)
GRANDSON OF MARY JEMISON
Location: ON SQUAWKIE HILL RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. S. OF LEICESTER

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: LIMA, TOWN OF

GANDICHIRAGOU
"AT THE FORKS OF THE TRAIL"
NAME RECORDED 1634. DESTROYED
BY DE NONVILLE'S FRENCH ARMY
1687. SITE ALSO OF FATHER
GARNIER'S CHAPEL OF ST. JEAN
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF US 20 & NYS 5 WITH NYS 15A AT LIMA
GENESEE WESLEYAN SEMINARY
FOUNDED 1832
GENESEE COLLEGE ESTABLISHED
1849 AND ON APRIL 14, 1869
WAS ALLOWED TO REMOVE TO
FORM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF COLLEGE AVE. & GENESEE ST. AT LIMA
SITE OF
SKA-HASE-GA-O
(WAS-A-LONG-CREEK)
A POPULOUS MODERN
SENECA INDIAN VILLAGE
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5 AT LIMA
WARNER HOUSE
BUILT BY ASHAHEL WARNER, 1810
WHO WAS PIONEER IN 1795
USED BY TRINITY MARK MASONIC
LODGE NO. 59, 1810
UNION LODGE NO. 45, 1816
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5 AT LIMA

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: LIVONIA, TOWN OF

1/3 MILE EAST
SITE OF HOME
SOLOMON WOODRUFF
FIRST SETTLER
OF LIVONIA, 1789
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3/4 MI. SO. LIVONIA CENTER
JACKSONVILLE
FOUNDED 1830 BY
ANDREW HOLDEN
COMPRISED 130 HOUSES,
10 MILLS, BRICKYARD,
2 DISTILLERIES
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1 MI. N.E. HEMLOCK NEAR LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO CO.LINE
MILITARY ROUTE
OF SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 15A ABOUT 1 MI. SOUTH OF HEMLOCK

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: MOUNT MORRIS, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
FRANCIS BELLAMY
1855-1931
AUTHOR OF "THE PLEGE OF
ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG"
Location: ON NYS 36 AT MOUNT MORRIS
FRANCIS BELLAMY
MEMORIAL PARK
NAMED IN HONOR OF FRANCIS
BELLAMY, 1855-1931, AUTHOR
OF "THE PLEGE OF
ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG"
Location: ON NYS 36 AT MOUNT MORRIS

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: NORTH DANSVILLE, TOWN OF

IN THIS CHURCH WAS
ORGANIZED FIRST LOCAL
RED CROSS
SOCIETY IN THE UNITED
STATES BY CLARA BARTON
AUGUST 22, 1881
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF EXCHANGE & CHRUCH STS. IN DANSVILLE
SITE OF
FIRST HOUSE
IN DANSVILLE, BUILT IN
1795 BY CORNELIUS MC COY
WHO CAME TO AMERICA FROM
IRELAND IN 1788
Location: ON NYS 36 AT DANSVILLE
SITE OF THE
FIRST CHURCH
IN DANSVILLE
GERMAN EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH
1826-1918
Location: ON MAIN ST. IN DANSVILLE

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: OSSIAN, TOWN OF

BISBEETOWN
SETTLED 1819 BY LUTHER BISBEE
BORN 1762-DIED 1856
SOLDIER OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION FROM MASSACHUSETTS
SITE OF FIRST HOUSE 1 MILE SOUTH
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF WESTVIEW
HOME - 1850
OF LUTHER BISBEE II AND HIS
WIFE, ELIZA WEST, DESCENDANTS
OF THOMAS BESBRIDGE AND
FRANCIS WEST, FREEMEN OF
PLYMOUTH COLONY,MASSACHUSETTS
1637-1670
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF WESTVIEW
INDIAN CABIN
NEARBY IS THE SITE OF THE
LAST CABIN IN THIS TOWN,
OCCUPIED BY THE SENECAS,
BEFORE THEIR REMOVAL TO THE
BUFFALO RESERVATION, 1826.
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT WESTVIEW
OSSIAN CENTER
SETTLED IN 1804 BY JUDGE
RICHARD AND JAMES PORTER.
THEY WITH THEIR BROTHER,
NATHANIEL, WERE FIRST
SETTLERS IN THE TOWN
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROADS AT OSSIAN
TELEGRAPH ROAD
ROUTE OF NEW YORK AND ERIE
TELEGRAPH LINE CONSTRUCTED
IN 1848 UNDER THE
SUPERVISION OF EZRA CORNELL
FOUNDER OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF WESTVIEW

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: PORTAGE, TOWN OF

APPROACHING
CIVIL WAR
PARADE GROUND
1862-1865
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 245 & CO. RD. LEADING TO ERIE RR BRIDGE OVER GENESEE R. AT PORTAGE
APPROACHING
CIVIL WAR
PARADE GROUND
1862-1865
Location: ON CO. RD. LEADING TO ERIE RR. BRIDGE OVER GENESEE R. AT PORTAGE
CIVIL WAR
PARADE GROUND
1862-1865
130TH N.Y. REGT., LATER 1ST
N.Y. DRAGOONS AND 136TH N.Y.
REGT. OF INFANTRY, 1862
Location: ON CO. RD. LEADING TO ERIE RR. BRIDGE OVER GENESEE R. AT PORTAGE
KISH-A-WA
FIRST SETTLERS IN 1816;
ONLY VILLAGE IN 15 MILES;
HOME OF MANY FAMOUS PEOPLE;
PATH OF "OLD INDIAN TRAIL"
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT HUNTS HOLLOW
PORTAGE BRIDGE
REPLACES LARGEST WOODEN
BRIDGE IN THE WORLD. BUILT
IN 1852. 300 ACRES OF
TIMBER USED IN CONSTRUCTION
BURNED IN 1875
Location: ON LIVINGSTON CO. SIDE OF ERIE RR. BRIDGE OVER GENESEE R. AT PORTAGE
SCHOOL SITE
FRAME BUILDING, ABOUT 1819;
ABANDONED FOR ONE OF TWO
ROOM AS NUMBER OF PUPILS
GREW. SAMUEL HUNT, BROTHER
OF GOVERNOR HUNT, TAUGHT HERE.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MIL. W. OF HUNTS HOLLOW

County: LIVINGSTON
Town: YORK, TOWN OF

BRICK SCHOOL
DISTRICT NO. 8; BUILT
1825. PRESIDENT CHESTER
A. ARTHUR ATTENDED THIS
SCHOOL 1837 TO 1842
Location: ON NYS 36 AT YORK
SITE OF
O-HA-GI
(CROWDING THE BANK)
TUSCARORA INDIAN VILLAGE
ONLY ONE IN COUNTY
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF PIFFARD

County: MADISON
Town: CAZENOVIA, TOWN OF

BAPTIST CHURCH
FIRST IN TOWN OF CAZENOVIA.
UNBROKEN SERVICE SINCE
ORGANIZATION JULY 17, 1801.
THIS BUILDING ERECTED 1815.
Location: ON NYS 13 AT NEW WOODSTOCK
FIRST COUNTY SEAT
THIS BUILDING ERECTD FOR
COURT HOUSE 1810. COURTS
HELD 1812-17. SOLD TO
METHODISTS 1818. CONFERENCE
SEMINARY ESTABLISHED 1824.
Location: ON SEMINARY ST. BETWEEN SULLIVAN & LINCKLAEN STS.

County: MADISON
Town: DE RUYTER, TOWN OF

EZRA CORNELL
300 YARDS UP THIS LANE
STOOD HIS BOYHOOD HOME
IN 1828 HE WALKED TO ITHACA
WHERE LATER HE FOUNDED
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3 1/2 MILES EAST OF DE RUYTER
[ARROW]
MULLER HILL
EASTATE OF LOUIS A. MULLER
WHO LOCATED HERE IN 1808.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF DE RUYTER
[ARROW]
3 1/2 MILES
SITE OF BOYHOOD HOME
EZRA CORNELL
FOUNDER OF
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Location: ON NYS 13 AT DE RUYTER

County: MADISON
Town: EATON, TOWN OF

BAPTIST CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1816. ERECTED 1819.
REPAIRED AND IMPROVED 1856.
REV. J. COOLEY, 1ST MINISTER.
REV. NATHANIEL KENDRICK,
PASTOR 1817-1833
Location: ON NYS 26 AT EATON
DR. JAMES PRATT
FIRST PHYSICIAN IN TOWN OF
EATON, 1797, TAUGHT FIRST
SCHOOL IN HOMES OF JOSPEH
MORSE COL. LELAND AND THOMAS
MORRIS ALTERNATELY.
Location: ON NYS 26 AT EATON
FANNY FORESTER
AUTHOR OF "ALDERBROOK TALES"
BORN EMILY CHUBBUCK AUG. 22,
1817; MARRIED DR. A. JUDSON.
HER HOME "UNDERHILL COTTAGE"
STOOD ABOUT ON THIS SITE.
Location: ON NYS 26 ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF EATON
HOME OF
CYRUS AND ELIZABETH
HEMINWAY FINNEY. MARRIED
JULY 25, 1797. CAME
FROM NEW ENGLAND AND
SETTLED HERE 1797.
Location: ON NYS 26 AT EATON
MORSE HOUSE
JOSEPH MORSE, EUNICE BIGELOW
FROM SHERBURNE, MASS. 1796
FOUNDED "LOG CITY" 1800
LATER NAMED EATON 1807
BUILT THIS HOUSE 1802
Location: ON NYS 26 AT EATON
MORSE MILL DAM
DEVELOPMENT OF EATON BROOK
WATER POWER BEGUN BY
JOSEPH MORSE 1796 CREATED
COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CENTER
LASTING A CENTURY TO 1896
Location: ON NYS 26 AT EATON
N.Y. STATE SCHOOL
OF AGRICULTURE
MORRISVILLE, N.Y.
ESTABLISHED 1908
FIRST DIRECTOR, F.G. HELYAR
APRIL 1, 1910-NOVEMBER 15, 1917
Location: ON US 20 AT MORRISVILLE
N.Y. STATE SCHOOL
OF AGRICULTURE
MORRISVILLE, N.Y.
ESTABLISHED 1908
FIRST DIRECTOR, F.G. HELYAR
APRIL 1, 1910-NOVEMBER 15, 1917
Location: ON US 20 AT MORRISVILLE
SAGE TAVERN IN LOG CITY.
BUILT AND RUN BY ISAAC
SAGE 1802. OLDEST HOUSE
IN VILLAGE OF EATON.
Location: ON NYS 26, AT EATON
SITE OF
CHAMPLAIN BATTLE
1615
[ARROW]
NICHOLS POND PARK,
ON ONEIDA INDIAN
VILLAGE SITE 10 MILES NORTH
Location: ON US 20 AT MORRISVILLE
SITE OF FARM
BROUGHT IN 1799 BY CALEB
DUNBAR, BORN BRIDGEWATER,
MASS., 1760. MARRIED
HANNAH DRAKE, BORN
EATON, MASS., 1762
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE NORTH OF EATON
SITE OF HOME
1793, COL. JOSHUA LELAND.
FIRST SETTLER IN THIS VALLEY.
HE BUILT FIRST GRIST MILL
ON STREAM BETWEEN THESE PONDS.
Location: ON NYS 26 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH-EAST OF EATON
SITE OF LOG HOUSE
OF LEVI BONNEY, BORN 1775,
MARRIED RHODA PRATT. CAME
FROM CORNWAL, CONN., 1795
FIRST TO COME AND REMAIN IN
THIS VALLEY.
Location: ON NYS 26 ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH-EAST OF EATON
TOLL GATE NO. 1
PECK'S PORT, EATON AND
GEORGETOWN PLANK ROAD, 1849.
SAWEN MORSE, 1ST WHITE CHILD
BORN IN EATON WAS 1ST
KEEPER OF THIS GATE.
Location: ON NYS 26 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH-EAST OF EATON
TOLL GATE NO. 2
PECK'S PORT, EATON AND
GEORGETOWN PLANK ROAD, 1849.
Location: ON NYS 26 ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF EATON

County: MADISON
Town: FENNER, TOWN OF

GRAIN PITS
THESE PITS ARE REMAINS
OF COMMUNITY STORAGE
CELLARS FOR CORN, BEANS
AND SQUASH. USED BY
THE IROQUOIS INDIANS
Location: AT NICHOLS POND ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CANASTOTA
INDIAN SPRING
THIS WAS OUTSIDE
THE AREA OF THE FORT
AND NOT PROTECTED
BY THE PALISADES
Location: AT NICHOLS POND ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CANASTOTA
ONEIDA STONE
OF 1615
ONEIDA MEANS PEOPLE OF
THE STANDING STONE. IN EACH
VILLAGE WAS SUCH AN ALTAR
AND COUNCIL PLACE
Location: AT NICHOLS POND ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CANASTOTA
SITE OF
CHAMPLAIN BATTLE
HERE CHAMPLAIN AIDED BY
HURON INDIANS ATTACKED THE
STOCKADED ONEIDA VILLAGE
OCT. 10-16, 1615
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CANASTOTA

County: MADISON
Town: GEORGETOWN, TOWN OF

MULLER HILL
ESTATE OF LOUIS A. MULLER,
DISTINGUISHED FRENCH REFUGEE
WHO LOCATED HERE IN 1808.
DOUBTLESS NOBLEMAN FLEEING
FROM VENGEANCE OF NAPOLEON
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF GEORGETOWN
[ARROW]
MULLER HILL
ESTATE OF LOUIS A. MULLER
WHO LOCATED HERE IN 1808.
Location: ON NYS 80 AT GEORGETOWN

County: MADISON
Town: HAMILTON, TOWN OF

MADISON STREET CEMETERY
ESTABLISHED ABOUT 1830
ELISHA PAYNE
FOUNDER OF THE VILLAGE
OF HAMILTON IS BURIED HERE
Location: ON MADISON ST. AT HAMILTON

County: MADISON
Town: HAMILTON, VILLAGE OF

COLGATE UNIVERSITY
FOUNDED IN 1819
CHARTERED AS MADISON
UNIVERSITY IN 1846
RENAMED COLGATE IN 1890

County: MADISON
Town: LEBANON, TOWN OF

1/4 MILE LEFT
STOOD THE HOME OF
COL. WM. S. SMITH AIDE
TO WASHINGTON AND
ABIGAIL ADAMS SMITH
SEE MARKER AHEAD
Location: ON NYS 12B ABOUT 4 1/4 MILES SOUTH OF HAMILTON
1/4 MILE RIGHT
STOOD THE HOME OF
COL. WM. S. SMITH AIDE
TO WASHINGTON AND
ABIGAIL ADAMS SMITH
SEE MARKER AHEAD
Location: ON NYS 12B ABOUT 3 3/4 MILES SOUTH OF HAMILTON
HERE IN 1788 STOOD
THE BARK HUT
OF BATES, STOWELL AND
SALISBURY, FIRST SETTLERS
OF WHAT IS NOW
MADISON COUNTY
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF EATON
HOUSE BUILT BY
ENOCH STOWELL, JR.
EARLY SETTLER. HOME OF
HORACE STOWELL, PROMINENT
ABOLITIONIST. STATION OF
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF EATON
SMITH'S VALLEY
COL. W.S. SMITH & FAMILY
EARLY SETTLERS & OWNERS
OF GREAT TRACTS OF LAND
IN THIS SECTION
Location: ON CO. RD. AT RANDALLSVILLE

County: MADISON
Town: LENOX, TOWN OF

HOME OF
THOMAS BARLOW
HISTORIAN, COUNTY JUDGE
IN 1843, MEMBER OF THE
NEW YORK STATE SENATE,
1844-1847
Location: ON MAIN ST. AT CANASTOTA
HOME OF
MILTON DELANO
CLERK OF TOWN OF OLD
LENOX. TWICE ELECTED
SHERIFF OF MADISON COUNTY
MEMBER OF CONGRESS, 1888-1892
Location: ON NYS 13 AT INTERSECTION OF PETERBORO ST.. & RASBACK ST., CANASTOTA
QUALITY HILL
GREEN
A COMPANY OF HORSE
ARTILLERY DRILLED HERE
DURING THE WAR OF 1812
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF CANASTOTA
SITE OF
CHAMPLAIN BATTLE
1615
[ARROW]
NICHOLS POND PARK
AN ONEIDA VILLAGE SITE
6 MILES SOUTH
Location: ON US 20 AT CANASTOTA
SITE OF
MESSINGER HOTEL
ERECTED IN 1814
BY GEORGE MESSINGER
Location: ON NYS 31 AT MESSINGER BAY

County: MADISON
Town: LINCOLN, TOWN OF

TO SITE OF
CHAMPLAIN BATTLE
1615
[ARROW]
Location: ON TN. RD. AT CLOCKVILLE

County: MADISON
Town: NELSON, TOWN OF

WELSH CHURCH
ONE MILE [ARROW]
WELSH CONGREGATIONAL
SOCIETY FOUNDED JUNE 22, 1850
PRESENT CHURCH BUILDING
ERECTED 1876
Location: ON US 20 1 MILE EAST OF NELSON

County: MADISON
Town: SMITHFIELD, TOWN OF

TO SITE OF
CHAMPLAIN BATTLE
1615
[ARROW]
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT PETERBORO
TO SITE OF
CHAMPLAIN BATTLE
1615
[ARROW]
Location: ON MILE STRIP RD. ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CANASTOTA
[ARROW]
500 FEET
GERRIT S. MILLER
HOME OF EARLY IMPORTED
HOLSTEIN CATTLE.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF PETERBORO

County: MADISON
Town: STOCKBRIDGE, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE
W. DEMPSTER HOARD, BORN
OCT. 10, 1836. GOVERNOR
OF WISCONSIN 1889-90
FOUNDER HOARD'S DAIRYMAN
Location: ON NYS 46 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF MUNNSVILLE

County: MONROE
Town: BRIGHTON, TOWN OF

CITY OF TRYON
FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT
WEST OF CANANDAIGUA
FOUNDED 1797, ABANDONED
1818. JOHN LUSK WAS THE
FIRST SETTLER 1789.
Location: ON EAST SIDE OF LANDING RD., NEAR BLOSSOM RD.
IRONDEQUOIT
SITE OF A LARGE
ALGONKIN TOWN
THE SENECAS LINGERED
HERE UNTIL 1845
Location: ON BLOSSOM RD., EAST OF LANDING RD. NORTH

County: MONROE
Town: CLARKSON, TOWN OF

HENRY R. SELDEN
1805-1885
LIEUT. GOV. AND JUDGE LIVED
HERE. GEORGE B. SELDEN
INVENTOR OF "SELDEN PATENT" FOR
AUTOMOBILES WAS BORN HERE.
Location: ON US 104 AT CLARKSON
HOME OF SIMEON B. JEWETT
1801-1869
POLITICAL LEADER, JURIST, PARTNER
OF HENRY R. SELDEN, U.S. MARSHALL,
NORTHERN N.Y. UNDER PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
Location: ON NYS 19 AT CLARKSON
HOUSTON TAVERN
A POPULAR STOPPING PLACE IN
STAGE COACH DAYS. BUILT SOON
AFTER 1825 FOR ISAAC HOUSTON
WHO WAS THE SOLE PROPRIETOR
FOR MANY YEARS
Location: ON US 104 ABOUT 1 MI. E. OF GARLAND
PHILIP BOSS
ARTIST AND CABINET MAKER
LIVED HERE FROM 1820 TO 1830.
MOVING TO ROCHESTER, THEN, HE
ACHIEVED GREAT POPULARITY
AS A PAINTER OF PORTRAITS
Location: ON US 104 AT CLARKSON

County: MONROE
Town: IRONDEQUOIT, TOWN OF

FORT SITE
HERE DENONVILLE'S FRENCH ARMY
LANDED TO INVADE THE SENECA
COUNTRY; JULY 12, 1687, 400
MEN WERE LEFT TO BUILD FORT;
BATTLE AT VICTOR JULY 13, 1687
Location: ON BLUFF OVERLOOKING LAKE ONTARIO AT SEA BREEZR

County: MONROE
Town: MENDON, TOWN OF

CAMP SITE
OF PRIMITIVE ALGONKINS
WHO FISHED HERE AGES AGO
DRIVEN OUT BY THE IROQUOIS
WHO OCCUPIED THIS REGION
Location: ON CANFIELD RD. AT MENDONS PONDS PARK
TOTIAKTON
SENECA TOWN OF 120 CABINS
WAS LOCATED HERE
BURNED BY DENONVILLE, 1687
JESUIT MISSION, 1668-1683
Location: ON E. SIDE PLAIN RD., S. OF ROCHESTER JUNCTION
WAR SITE
DENONVILLE'S ARMY OF 3000
FRENCH AND INDIAN ALLIES
CAMPED HERE 23 JULY 1687
RETURNING TO IRONDEQUOIT
AFTER RAZING SENECA TOWNS
Location: IN MENDON PONDS PARK

County: MONROE
Town: OGDEN, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
JOHN T. TROWBRIDGE
1827-1916
POET; AUTHOR OF "DARIUS
GREEN AND HIS FLYING
MACHINE" AND OTHER STORIES
Location: ON NICHOLS ST. ABOUT 2 MIS. S.E. OF SPENCERPORT
INDIAN HILL
INDIAN ENCAMPMENT WHEN WHITES
ENTERED REGION.
GRANDPARENTS OF FRANCES E. WILLARD
SETTLED HERE IN 1816
AS PIONEERS ON THIS LAND
Location: ON BANGS RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. N. OF CHURCHVILLE

County: MONROE
Town: PARMA, TOWN OF

METHODIST CHURCH
OLDEST WEST OF THE GENESEE
FIRST SERMON PREACHED 1804;
CLASS ORGANIZED 1811
CHURCH BUILT 1830.
Location: ON NYS 259 AT PARMA CENTER

County: MONROE
Town: PERINTON, TOWN OF

LA SALLE ROAD
ROUTE USED BY THE FRENCH
ARMY OF DENONVILLE TO
DESTROY SENECA INDIANS AT
TOWN SOUTH OF VICTOR, NY
JULY 13, 1687
Location: ON NYS 96 ABOUT 1/4 MI. E. OF BUSHNELL BASIN

County: MONROE
Town: PITTSFORD, TOWN OF

DENONVILLE
WITH ARMY OF 3000
FRENCH AND INDIANS
CROSSED THESE GROUND
TWICE IN JULY, 1687
Location: ON GOLF COURSE OF OAK HILL COUNTRY CLUB
FIRST LIBRARY
IN THE GENESEE COUNTRY
NORTHFIELD LIBRARY CO., 1803-
1808, KEPT ITS BOOKS AT THE
FARM OF EZRA PATTERSON,
FIRST LIBRARIAN
Location: ON MENDON CTR. RD., ABOUT 1 MI. S.E. OF PITTSFORD
ON THIS SPOT
STOOD THE FIRST SCHOOL
HOUSE IN MONROE COUNTY
ERECTED 1794; FIRST
TEACHER, JOHN BARROWS.
Location: ON NYS 64 ABOUT 1 MI. S. OF PITTSFORD
PITTSFORD VILLAGE
FOUNDED AUGUST 1789
BY CAPTAIN SIMON STONE
AND LIEUTENANT ISRAEL STONE
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 96 & NYS 31 AT PITTSFORD
SENECA TRAIL
CROSSING THE IRONDEQUOIT
THICKLY WOODED, PERILOUS
DEFILE WHERE DENONVILLE,
EXPECTED AN AMBUSCADE ON
JOURNEY TO GANNOGARO, 1689
Location: ON NYS 96 ABOUT 1 1/2 MI. E. OF PITTSFORD VILLAGE
THE FIRST HOUSE
IN PITTSFORD VILLAGE
WAS ERECTED ON THIS
SPOT BY ISRAEL STONE
Location: ON NYS 31 AT PITTSFORD

County: MONROE
Town: RIGA, TOWN OF

FOUNDED 1843
CHURCHVILLE GRADED SCHOOL
OCCUPIED THIS BUILDING
UNTIL 1895. A FINE EXAMPLE
OF THE LOST ART OF BUILDING
WITH COBBLESTONES.
Location: ON W. BUFFALO ST., CHURCHVILLE
FRANCES E. WILLARD
GREAT TEMPERANCE LEADER
WAS BORN IN HOUSE
STANDING ON THIS SITE SEPT. 28, 1839.
THE WILLARDS LEFT THIS HOME FOR
OHIO TWO YEARS LATER.
Location: ON MAIN ST., CHURCHVILLE
OLD TAVERN
BUILT BY J. THOMSON, 1808
FIRST FRAME HOUSE AND FIRST
POST OFFICE IN TOWN OF RIGA
THOMAS ADAMS HOMESTEAD.
Location: ON RIGA MUMFORD RD. AT RIGA CTR.
RIGA ACADEMY
A FLOURISHING SCHOOL FOR
BOARDING AND DAY PUPILS
WAS ORGANIZED HERE IN 1846.
THE BUILDING WAS EARLIER
KNOWN AS THOMSON'S TAVERN.
Location: ON RIGA MUMFORD RD., RIGA CTR.

County: MONROE
Town: ROCHESTER, CITY OF

CASCONCHIAGON
INDIAN VILLAGE AT THE
FALLS NEARBY. OCCUPIED
BY SENECAS UNTIL 1819
Location: IN MAPLEWOOD PK. N. OF DRIVING PK.
HIGHLAND PARK
ROCHESTER'S FIRST PARK WAS
OFFERED IN 1883 BY ELLWANGER
AND BARRY AND ACCEPTED JAN.
13, 1888. PARK COMMISSION
WAS FORMED MAY 1, 1888.
Location: NEAR PAVILION AT HIGHLAND PARK
INDIAN SPRING
ATTRACTED INDIANS HERE;
SUPPLIED GOOD WATER TO
ROCHESTER'S FIRST SETTLERS
FOR A DECADE AFTER 1812;
GAVE NAME TO SPRING STREET.
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF SPRING & WASHINGTON STS.
INDIAN TOWN
IN PRIMITIVE WILDERNESS
HERE WAS A LARGE ALGONKIN
VILLAGE WHOSE BARK CABINS
AND TILLED FIELDS COVERED
NINE ACRES
Location: ON E. SIDE OF RIVER BLVD. NEAR ELMWOOD AVE.
JONATHAN CHILD
FIRST MAYOR OF ROCHESTER
1834-1835, BUILT THE HOUSE
IN 1838 AND LIVED HERE WITH
HIS WIFE, SOPHIA ELIZA ROCHESTER
CHILD, UNTIL 1850
Location: ON GROUNDS OF FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST
LEWIS HENRY
MORGAN'S HOME
1855-1881. HERE HE WROTE
HIS GREAT BOOKS: "THE AMERICAN
BEAVER", "THE HUMAN FAMILY",
"ANCIENT SOCIETY".
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF FITZHUGH AND TROUP STS.
OLD HIGH SCHOOL
BUILT ON THIS SITE, 1827
BY BRIGHTON DISTRICTS 4 AND 14
NAMED ROCHESTER COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTE, 1839. DR. CHESTER
DEWEY WAS PRINCIPAL 1836-51.
Location: ON GROUNDS OF FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH ON CORTLAND ST.
PIONEER SCHOOL
FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE IN ROCHESTER
WAS BUILT OF WOOD ON THIS SITE,
1813. IT WAS REPLACED BY A
TWO-STORY STONE BUILDING, 1836,
AND BY THIS STRUCTURE, 1873.
Location: ON FITZHUGH ST.
SITE OF
INDIAN FORT
BUILT BY EARLY ALGONKINS
IN FORM OF A SEMICIRCULAR
EARTHEN EMBANKMENT
WITH THREE ENTRANCES
Location: ON W. BANK OF GENESEE R.E. OF N. END OF RIVER ST.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
OUTSTANDING LEADER IN
WOMAN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
MADE HER HOME HERE
WITH HER SISTER, MARY
1866-1906
Location: ON MADISON ST. ROCHESTER

County: MONROE
Town: RUSH, TOWN OF

HONEOYE
VALLEY
THREE INDIAN TRIBES
HAVE HUNTED, FISHED
AND TILLED THE SOIL HERE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
Location: ON EAST RIVER RD., W. RUSH
SITE OF A SETTLEMENT OF
TUSCARORAS
6TH NATION OF IROQUOIS
LEAGUE. DRIVEN FROM
CAROLINAS BY BRITISH
1714-1722
Location: ON AVON RD. AT MONROE-LIVINGSTON COUNTY LINE

County: MONROE
Town: SWEDEN, TOWN OF

MCCORMICK REAPER
MADE HERE IN 1846. SEYMOUR
AND MORGAN BY BUILDING 100
REAPERS FOR CYRUS MCCORMICK
BEGAN QUANTITY PRODUCTION
OF REAPERS
Location: AT INTERSECTION MARKET & PARK STS. AT BROCKPORT

County: MONROE
Town: WHEATLAND, TOWN OF

BURIAL SITE
QUAKER CEMETERY
BOUGHT 1833
FROM DARIUS SHADBOLT
Location: ON BURRELL RD. S. OF SCOTTSVILLE
ERECTED 1854
BY ORTHODOX QUAKERS
USED THIRTY YEARS
Location: ON SOUTH RD. S. OF SCOTTSVILLE
FIRST HOUSE
WEST OF GENESEE RIVER
STOOD 1700 FEET DUE SOUTH
"INDIAN" ALLEN, BUILDER, 1786
PETER SHAEFFER, SETTLER, 1789
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1797
Location: ON SCOTTSVILLE-WEST HENRIETTA RD. AT SCOTTSVILLE
NORTHAMPTON
FIRST TOWN WEST OF GENESEE
RIVER ORGANIZED HERE 1797
EBENEZER ALLEN HOME 1786
PETER SHAEFFER FARM 1789
TERMINUS PIONEER R.R. 1838
Location: MAIN ST. AT SCOTTSVILLE
SITE OF
EARLY SCHOOL
QUARKERS MET HERE
1824-1827
Location: ON BURRELL RD., S. OF SCOTTSVILLE
SITE OF FIRST
QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
TOWN OF WHEATLAND
FRAME BUILDING 1827
USED UNTIL 1854
BY HICKSITES
Location: ON BURRELL RD. S. OF SCOTTSVILLE

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: AMSTERDAM, CITY OF

250 FEET S.
CLAUS MASION
BUILT 1762 BY
SIR WM. JOHNSON
FOR HIS DAUGHTER NANCY
STOOD BETWEEN RIVER AND
PRESENT RAILROAD
Location: ON NYS 5 AT WEST END OF AMSTERDAM
GUY PARK, 1766
BUILT BY SIR WILLIAM
JOHNSON FOR DAUGHTER,
MOLLY, WIFE OF COL. GUY
JOHNSON. JOHNSONS LEFT
FOR CANADA IN 1775.
Location: ON NYS 5 AT AMSTERDAM
OLD MANNY INN
WAS ON LOT 8, SUB-DIVISION
OF LOT 1 OF THE 13TH PATENT.
SOLD TO GABRIEL MANNY 1804.
CAME INTO POSSESSION OF
ROSS FAMILY IN 1839.
Location: ON NYS 5 AT EAST END OF AMSTERDAM

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: AMSTERDAM, TOWN OF

1ST CHURCH
IN HAGAMAN
ERECTED IN 1835 AS
PRESBYTERIAN NORTH
JOINED CLASSIS MOUNT 1855.
IS NOW A REFORMED CHURCH.
Location: ON MAIN ST. IN HAGAMAN
A FAMOUS INN
HERE, 1795-1845, STOOD THE
HOTEL OF JOHN VAN EPS WHO
FOUGHT AT ORISKANY. HERE
COMMODORE PERRY AND OTHER
NOTABLES WERE ENTERTAINED.
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES EAST OF CRANESVILLE
ADRIUCHA
DE GROOT FAMILY SETTLED
HERE ABOUT 1700, MILL BUILT
ABOUT 1710
Location: ON NYS 5 AT CRANESVILLE
CEMETERY-1774
OWNED BY JOSEPH HAGAMAN
FOR WHOM VILLAGE OF HAGAMAN
WAS NAMED. CEMETERY RESTORED
IN 1927. 7 REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIERS ARE BURIED HERE
Location: ON PAWLING ST. AT HAGAMAN
COMPAANEN KILL
NEAR HERE, ACCORDING TO
TRADITION, IS THE GRAVE OF
COPAAN THE ONEIDA, WHO AT
WEST CANADA CREEK, 1781,
TOMAHAWKED WALTER BUTLER.
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF CRANESVILLE
EVASKILL
NAMED AFTER MRS. EVA VAN
ALSTYNE WHO WAS SCALPED
HERE 1755.
Location: ON NYS 5 AT CRANESVILLE
FORT JOHNSON, 1749
THIRD MOHAWK VALLEY HOUSE
BUILT BY SIR WILLIAM
JOHNSON. IMPORTANT MILITARY
POST AND INDIAN COUNCIL
PLACE OF 1754-60
Location: ON NYS 5 AT FORT JOHNSON
JOHNSON TRAIL
USED BY SIR WM. JOHNSON 1742-
1774 BETWEEN FORT JOHNSON AND
JOHNSON HALL. A BI-CENTENNIAL
IN 1938 CELEBRATED HIS
ARRIVAL IN AMERICA.
Location: ON NYS 67 AT FORT JOHNSON
MANNY'S CORNERS
CEMETERY-ABOUT 1790
CONTAINS GRAVES OF
FOUR REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIERS
Location: ON NYS 67 AT MANNY'S CORNERS
OLD HAGAMAN
CEMETERY-1774
ABANDONED FOR MANY YEARS
RESTORED BY LEWIS E.
HARROWER IN 1927. CARED
FOR BY TOWN OF AMSTERDAM
Location: IN CEMETERY ABOUT 75 FT. WEST OF PAWLING ST. AT HAGAMAN

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: CANAJOHARIE, TOWN OF

CANAJOHARIE
NAME MEANS
"POT THAT WASHES ITSELF"
THE POT HOLE IS IN BED OF
CREEK BELOW AT ENTRANCE
TO CANAJOHARIE GORGE
Location: ON NYS 10 AT S. END CANAJOHARIE
CLINTON CAMP
JUNE 1779
OF COL. WEISSENFELS'
4TH NEW YORK REGIMENT
GUARDING ARMY'S PORTAGE
MARCH TO OTSEGO LAKE
Location: ON NYS 163 ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF SPROUT BROOK
CLINTON CAMP
JUNE 1779
OF COL. GANSEVOORT'S
3RD NEW YORK REGIMENT
GUARDING ARMY'S PORTAGE
MARCH TO OTSEGO LAKE
Location: ON ERIE BLVD., CANAJOHARIE
FLINT
HOMESITE
ROBET FLINT-PIONEER AND
LIEUTENANT FRENCH AND
INDIAN WARS. CORNELIUS
FLINT-SOLDIER REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 163 AT SPROUT BROOK
FORT FAILING
1770
PLACE OF REFUGE AND HOME OF
COL. HENDRICK FREY
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 3/4 MILE WEST OF CANAJOHARIE
SITE OF
JOHANNES REUFF'S TAVERN
BUILT 1750 BY HENDRICK SCHREMBLING
BECAME REUFF'S TAVERN IN 1778
GEN. JAMES CLINTON'S HDQTS 1779
GEN. WASHINGTON VISITED HERE 1783
RECRUITING OFFICE 1812, DEMOLISHED 1850
Location: ON NYS 10 AT CANAJOHARIE
SITE OF
CANAJOHARIE ACADEMY, 1824-92
SUSAN B. ANTHONY TAUGHT HERE 1846-
1848. CHARLES F. WHEELOCK, PRIN.,
1880-91
Location: AT INTERSECTION CLIFF & OTSEGO STS. CANAJOHARIE
SULLIVAN-CLINTON
CAMPAIGN 1779
PORTAGE ROUTE OF GENERAL JAMES
CLINTON'S ARMY CANAJOHARIE TO OTSEGO
LAKE 2000 MEN, 500 WAGONS, 200
BATEAUX AND SUPPLIES MOVED OVERLAND
Location: ON NYS 10 AT S. END CANAJOHARIE
VAN ALSTYNE HOMESTEAD
BUILT 1749 BY MARTIN J. VAN ALSTYNE
16 OF 31 MEETINGS OF TRYON COUNTY
SAFETY COMMITTEE HELD HERE 1774-75
GENERAL NICHOLAS HERKIMER RECEIVED
COMMISSION AS BRIG. GEN HERE 1775
Location: ON MOYER ST., CANAJOHARIE
[ARROW]
CLINTON ROAD
ROUTE OF GEN. CLINTON'S AMERICAN
ARMY OF 2000 MEN, 500 WAGONS,
200 BATEAUX, PORTAGE
CANAJOHARIE-OTSEGO LAKE
1779
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANAJOHARIE

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: CHARLESTON, TOWN OF

BAPTIST
CHURCH
ERECTED 1793
ELIJAH HERRICK 1ST PASTOR
Location: ON COUNTY RD., CHARLESTON
CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
ERECTED IN 1813
JAMES WILSON FIRST PASTOR
ELDER JOHN ROSS PASTOR
1822-1872
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT CHARLESTON FOUR CORNERS
GRAVE OF
SAMUEL TALLMADGE
BORN BROOKHAVEN, L.I., NOV.
23, 1755-DIED APRIL. 1, 1825
LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT
IN AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 148 ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTHWEST OF CHARLESTON
GRAVE OF
WILLIAM MC CONKEY
JAN 22, 1744-SEPT. 10, 1825
OWNER OF FERRY ON DELAWARE
RIVER ON WHICH WASHINGTON
CROSSED DEC. 25, 1776
Location: ON NYS 148 ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTHWEST OF CHARLESTON
GRIST MILL
ERECTED 1850 BY
JUDAH BURTON
SON OF THE 1ST SETTLERS
Location: ON TOWN RD., BURTONVILLE
HOME OF
LIEUT. SAMUEL
TALLMADGE
ERECTED ABOUT 1800
REPLACED LOG CABIN
BUILT ABOUT 1789
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. W. OF CHARLESTON

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: FLORIDA, TOWN OF

"YANKEE STREET"
SURVEYED IN 1795, "SIX RODS
WIDE, STRAIGHT COURSE S.E.
FROM CREEK TO DIVISION LINE
BETWEEN WARREN & REMSEN
PATENTS," NOW SCHUYLER'S CORNER
Location: ON NYS 30 AT MINAVILLE
ASSOCIATE CHURCH
ORGANIZED ABOUT 1786 BY
ASSOCIATE PRESBYTERY OF
PENNSYLVANIA. 1ST MINISTERS:
MAIRS, BANKS, DONALDSON,
CAMPBELL. 1ST CHURCH
BUILT 1800
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT SCOTCH CHURCH
JAN WEMP (WEMPLE)
EARLY SETTLER, OBTAINED FROM
MOHAWK INDIANS 450 ACRES OF
LAND IN 1737. WAS ONE OF
CONTRACTORS WHO BUILT QUEEN
ANNE CHAPEL & OLD FORT HUNTER
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE N/E OF FORT HUNTER
JOHNSON'S
1738-1742
SITE OF FIRST
MOHAWK VALLEY HOME
AND TRADING POST OF
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF AMSTERDAM
NEAR THIS SPOT STOOD THE
TRADING HOUSE
OF WILLIAM JOHNSON
(LATER SIR WILLIAM)
AGENT FOR WARRENBUSH PAT.
1734
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF AMSTERDAM
PETER YOUNG
SETTLED 1726 NEAR YOUNG'S
LAKE. GRANTED FIRST LEASE
OF LAND IN WARRENSBUSH BY
SIR PETER WARREN, OCT. 7,
1736.
Location: ON CO. RD., E. SIDE SCHOHARIE CREEK ABOUT 1 3/3 MI. S.E MILL POINT
QUEEN ANNE
PARSONAGE
BUILT 1712 FOR USE OF
MISSIONARIES TO MOHAWK
INDIANS. HERE IN 1775 REV.
J. STUART & J. BRANT TRANSLATED
IN MOHAWK THE GOSPEL OF ST. MARK.
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF FORT HUNTER
SITE OF
LOG MEETING HOUSE
WARRENSBUSH CHURCH, ERECTED
1778, FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
IN MOHAWK VALLEY. REV. J.
DEMPSTER, PASTOR, 1778-1804.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMSTERDAM
SITE OF
T-CAN-DE-RO-GA OR
TEN-ON-ON-TO-GEN. LOWER
CASTLE MOHAWKS' WOLF CLAN
LAST MOHAWK INDIAN VILLAGE
IN VALLEY, 1700-1775
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT FORT HUNTER
SITE OF
QUEEN ANNE CHAPEL
BUILT 1711-12 FOR USE OF
MOHAWK INDIANS. TORN DOWN
1821 TO MAKE WAY FOR ERIE
CANAL
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT FORT HUNTER
SITE OF
OLD FORT HUNTER
BUILT 1711-12 BY ORDER OF
GOV. HUNTER FOR PROTECTION
OF MOHAWK INDIANS. WAS
STOCKADED AND SURROUNDED
QUEEN ANNE CHAPEL
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT FORT HUNTER
SITE OF
FIRST BRIDGE
BUILT BY ISAAC DEPUT ACROSS
SCHOHARIE CREEK, 1796-97.
PARTIALLY DESTROYED BY ICE
FEB. 23, 1814
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT FORT HUNTER
SITE OF
REMSEN'S BUSH
DUTCH CHURCH
BUILT ABOUT 1784 ON LAND
DONATED BY L. SHULER, REV.
T. ROMEYN ONLY SETTLED PASTOR.
NEW CHURCH IN MINAVILLE, 1808.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINAVILLE
SITE OF
FREDERICK'S MILL
AT END OF LANE PHILIP
FREDERICK AND FRANCIS SALTZ
LEASED LAND AND BUILT MILL,
1750.
Location: ON CO. RD., E. SIDE SCHOHARIE CREEK, 1 MI, S.E. MILL PT.
SITE OF PIONEER
WARRENSBUSH VILLAGE
1770-1810 HAD SAW AND GRIST
MILL BELOW BRIDGE ON CREEK
BEND, A PROSPEROUS VILLAGE,
DESTROYED IN INDIAN RAIDS, 1781.
Location: ON TN. RD. NEAR BRIDGE OVER SO. CHUCTANUNDA CR. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. SOUTHWEST OF AMSTERDAM
STANTONS FORD
WHERE ROSS & BUTLER
CROSSED WITH 700 TORIES
INDIANS AND BRITISH
OCTOBER 24, 1781
LAST GREAT RAID IN COUNTY
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF AMSTERDAM
WILGEN VLACKTE
WILLOW FLATS SETTLED
BY CLAUS WILLEMSE VAN
COPPERNOWL. THEN WESTERN-
MOST LOCATION 1684
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF AMSTERDAM
[ARROW]
FIRST TOWN MEETING
HELD AT HOME OF EZRA MURRAY
FIRST TUES. IN APRIL, 1794,
MURRAY LIVED AT END OF ROAD
AT FOOT OF BEAN HILL, ON
PRESENT BUSSING FARM.
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 1 MILE S. OF MINAVILLE

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: GLEN, TOWN OF

ANDAGORON
MIDDLE MOHAWK CASTLE
OF THE BEAR CLAN 1642
LOCATED ON HILL TOP.
DESTROYED IN DE TRACY'S
RAID OF 1666
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 2 MIS. WEST OF FULTONVILLE
BLOCK HOUSE
ERECTED ON THIS
SITE NEAR CLOSE
OF REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 5S AT FULTONVILLE
CROMWELL HOME
BUILT ABOUT 1778 BY
PHILIP CROMWELL, SURGEON
TRYON COUNTY MILITIA
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF STONE RIDGE
FIRST SCHOOL
IN THE TOWN OF GLEN WAS
LOCATED HERE IN 1797
IN THE HOME OF
ABRAHAM D. QUACKENBUSH.
JOHN HAZZARD, TEACHER
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 3/4 MI. WEST AURIESVILLE
GANDAWAGUE
LOWER MOHAWK INDIAN
CASTLE OF THE TURTLE
CLAN 1659. BURNED IN
DE TRACY'S RAID, 1666.
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 3/4 MI. WEST AURIESVILLE
LAST COUNCIL
OF THE MOHAWK INDIANS
AND THE TRYON COUNTY
COMMITTEE OF SAFETY WAS
HELD HERE ON THE FLATS
OCTOBER 1775
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1 MI. WEST OF AURIESVILLE
OSSERNENON
LOWER MOHAWK INDIAN
CASTLE 1642-1659.
FATHER JOGUES AND RENE
GOUPIL MARTYRED HERE.
TEKAWITHA BORN HERE
Location: ON NYS 5S NEAR INTERSECTION WITH NYS 288
STARIN TAVERN
BUILT ON THIS SITE 1755
WESTERN TERMINUS OF
ALBANY POST ROAD 1795
MAIL CARRIED WEEKLY
FROM HERE TO JOHNSTOWN
Location: ON RIVER ST., FULTONVILLE
VAN EPPS HOME
FIRST HOME BUILT HERE
1751 BY JOHN E. VAN EPPS
PIONEER SETTLER IN
FULTONVILLE THEN KNOWN
AS VAN EPPS SWAMP
Location: ON NYS 5S AT E. END OF FULTONVILLE

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: MINDEN, TOWN OF

1739
ANCIENT
SALT SPRINGS
NEARBY DAVID LINSEY
DISCOVERED THE SPRING FROM
WHICH VILLAGE WAS NAMED
SOURCE OF PIONEER SUPPLY
Location: ON CO. RD., SALT SPRINGVILLE
1779
CLINTON MARCH
COL. LEWIS DUBOIS WITH
5TH NEW YORK REGT, AND
ARTILLERY LEFT FT. PLAIN FOR
OTSEGO LAKE, JUNE 25, 1779
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/4 MILE WEST OF FORT PLAIN
1779
[ARROW]
CLINTON RAOD
PORTAGE ROUTE OF GEN.
CLINTON'S AMERICAN ARMY
CANAJOHARIE TO OTSEGO LAKE
2000 MEN 200 BATEAUX 500 WAGONS
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF SALT SPRINGVILLE
CAN-A-WO-GE
MOHAWK VILLAGE STOOD ON THIS
SAND HILL BURIAL GROUND
ON AND ABOUT THIS ROAD
1634
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF FORT PLAIN
FORT CLYDE
STRONG FORT WITH BLOCKHOUSE
NAMED FOR COL. SAMUEL CLYDE
OF CANAJOHARIE
1777-1783
Location: ON NYS 163 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF FORT PLAIN
FORT PLAIN
1776-1786
NORTHERN LIMIT OF RAID
BY BRANT'S INDIANS-TORIES
16 KILLED-60 CAPTURED
100 BUILDINGS BURNED
AUGS.2, 1780
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF FORT PLAIN
FORT PLANK
1776
SITE MARKS STOCKADED HOME
FREDERICK PLANCK
MILITARY POST AND REFUGE
1776-1783
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES WEST OF FORT PLAIN
GRAVE OF
HENRY SEEBER
PIONEER, PATRIOT &
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
Location: ON CO. RD. 2 MILES EAST OF SALT SPRINGVILLE
INDIAN TRAIL
&
MILITARY ROAD
COVERED BY CLINTON'S ARMY
IN 1779 ON MARCH TO JOIN
GEN. SULLIVAN AT TIOGA
Location: ON CO. RD., SALT SPRINGVILLE
OTS-SQUA-GO
COURSE OF CREEK CHANGED
FROM POINT 1/2 MILE NORTH WHEN
ERIE CANAL WAS CONSTRUCTED
1817-1825
Location: ON NYS 80 AT FORT PLAIN
OTS-TUN-GO
ONE OF FIRST MOHAWK CASTLES
LOCATED ABOUT 3/4 MILE
UP OTSTUNGO
1580-1625
Location: ON NYS 80 ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF HALLSVILLE
SAND HILL
SCHOOL
SITE OF FIRST SCHOOL
BUILT IN THIS SECTION
BEFORE REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF FORT PLAIN
SAND HILL
DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH
FIRST BUILT 1750
BURNED IN 1780 RAID
REBUILT 1785-TORN DOWN 1840
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF FORT PLAIN
SITE OF HOME AND GRAVE OF
SERGEANT JOHN JACOB
DIEFENDORF
BORN 1747-DIED 1839
SERVED REVOLUTION
WAS IN BATTLE OF ORISKANY
Location: ON NYS 163 AT FREYS BUSH
TA-RA-TO-REES
"HILL OF HEALTH"
MOHAWK MIDDLE TOWN
1700-1755
Location: AT INTERSECTION KELLOGG & DOUGLAS STS., FORT PLAIN
TE-NO-TO-GE
LARGEST MOHAWK INDIAN TOWN
VISITED BY
VAN DEN BOGAERT 1634
55 HOUSES-OVER 1000 PEOPLE
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF FORT PLAIN

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: MOHAWK, TOWN OF

1/4 MILE S.
TEKAWITHA
SPRING
WATER SUPPLY FOR VILLAGES
OF CAUGHNAWAGA 1667-1693
NAMED AFTER THE
"LILY OF THE MOHAWKS"
Location: ON NYS 334 ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTHWEST OF FONDA
APPPROACHING SITE OF OLD
CAUGHNAWAGA
CHURCH
ERECTED IN 1763
Location: ON NYS 5 AT FONDA
CAMP MOHAWK
THE "IRON HEARTED REGIMENT"
DRILLED HERE, MUSTERED
INTO SERVICE AUG. 16, 1862
UNDER COL. SIMEON SAMMONS
Location: ON NYS 148 ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF FONDA
CAN-A-GOR-HA
(1666-1693)
MOHAWK INDIAN CASTLE
BURNED BY FRENCH AND INDIANS
1693
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 4 MIS. W. OF FONDA
CAUGHNAWAGAE
LOWER MOHAWK INDIAN
CASTLE 1667 RULED BY
TURTLE CLAN. JESUIT
MISSION OF ST. PETER'S
DESTROYED IN RAID OF 1693
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 3/4 MILE WEST OF FONDA
CONNOLLY INN
STOOD AT YOSTS WHERE THERE
WAS A TOLL GATE AND A BRIDGE
ACROSS THE MOHAWK WHICH
WAS SWEPT AWAY BY HIGH
WATER AND NEVER REBUILT
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 5 MILE WEST OF FONDA
COURT HOUSE
ERECTED 1836 WHEN FONDA
BECAME COUNTY SEAT.
SCENE OF MANY SOCIAL
RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL
MEETINGS
Location: ON GROUNDS OF OLD COURT HOUSE, FONDA
DANASCARA PLACE
BUILT 1795 BY
COL. FREDERICK VISCHER
REPLACING HOUSE WHICH
WAS BURNED IN THE
VALLEY RAID OF 1780
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 3 MIS. E., FONDA
DAVIS TAVERN
FAMOUS IN DAYS OF
STAGE COACH TRAVEL.
BUILT ABOUT 1781 BY
MATTHEW C. DAVIS
Location: ON NYS 5 AT FONDA
FONDA CEMETERY
OLD CAUGHNAWAGA CEMETERY
VILLAGE PROPERTY SINCE 1855
MANY EARLY SETTLERS BURIED
HERE, ALSO SIX
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS
Location: ON CEMETERY ST. AT FONDA
FONDA TAVERN
BUILT ABOUT 1781 BY
JOHN FONDA
OF TRYON COUNTY MILITIA
Location: ON NYS 5 AT FONDA
LIBERTY POLE
ERECTED ON THIS SPOT
OCCASIONED THE FIRST
BLOOD SHED IN OLD TRYON
COUNTY IN MAY 1775
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF FONDA
PAPPY DOUW
FONDA HOUSE
BUILT FOR ADAM DOUW FONDA
ON "THE WINTER FARM."
STOOD ON HILLTOP NORTH AND
EAST OF PRESENT LOCATION
Location: ON NYS 334 AT FONDA
SITE OF
SAMMONS' HOME
BURNED DURING REVOLUTION AND
SAMPSON SAMMONS AND HIS THREE
SONS TAKEN PRISONERS. JACOB AND
FREDERICK WERE TAKEN TO CANADA
BUT ESCAPED AFTER MUCH SUFFERING
Location: ON NYS 148 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF FONDA
VAN HORN HOUSE
BUILT BY ABRAM VAN HORN IN
1826. USED AS A BAKERY AND
STORE.
Location: ON NYS 5 AT FONDA
VEEDER HOME
BUILT ABOUT 1781 BY
MAJOR ABRAHAM VEEDER
WHO KEPT AN INN HERE
AND OPERATED A FERRY
ACROSS THE RIVER
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF FONDA
WEMPLE TAVERN
ERECTED 1780 BY
"PEGGY" WEMPLE
REVOLUTIONARY HEROINE
Location: ON NYS 334 AT FONDA
[ARROW] 700 FEET
SITE OF HOME OF
DOUW FONDA
1ST SETTLER, AFTER WHOM
VILLAGE WAS NAMED. HOUSE
BURNED & FONDA KILLED BY
TORIES & INDIANS 1780
Location: ON NYS 148 AT FONDA

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: PALATINE, TOWN OF

ARMY CAMP
OF GEN. VAN RENSSELAER'S
AMERICAN ARMY, OCT. 19, 1780
ALSO SITE OF PALATINE CHURCH
1770
Location: ON NYS 5 AT PALATINE CHURCH
FORT FREY
1739
HOME OF MAJ. JOHN FREY
HENDRICK FREY LOCATION
AT FOOT OF HILL 1689
BRITISH FORT NEARBY 1701-1713
Location: ON NYS 5 AT PALATINE BRIDGE
FORT WAGNER
STONE SECTION OF HOUSE
WAS STOCKADED HOME OF
LT. COL. PETER WAGNER
PALATINE REGT. TRYON
COUNTY MILITIA 1750
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF NELLISTON
LOUCKS TAVERN
SITE OF FIRST MEETING
PLACE PALATINE DISTRICT
COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
AUGUST 27, 1774
Location: ON NYS 10 AT STONE ARABIA
PALATINE BRIDGE
SETTLED BY HENDRICK FREY 1689
BRIDGE BUILT 1803
VILLAGE CHARTERED 1867
SETTLED BY PALATINE GERMANS
1689-1867
Location: ON NYS 5 AT PALATINE BRIDGE
SITE OF THE EARLY HOME OF
MAJOR JELLES FONDA
A PROMINENT MERCHANT BY
THE MOHAWK VALLEY AND AN
INDIAN TRADER. HERE WAS
LOCATED AN INDIAN VILLAGE
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF PALATINE BRIDGE
SPRAKER INN
BUILT IN 1795 BY THE
SPRAKER FAMILY
ONCE FAMOUS AS A
RIVER AND TURNPIKE TAVERN
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF PALATINE BRIDGE
STONE ARABIA
LUTHERAN CHURCH 1792
ALSO SITE OF LOG CHURCH 1729
SETTLED BY PALATINES
1712
Location: ON NYS 10 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF PALATINE BRIDGE
STONE ARABIA
BATTLEFIELD
LIES EAST OF ROAD
COL. BROWN'S AMERICAN BATTALION
DEFEATED OCT. 19, 1780
Location: ON NYS 10 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF PALATINE BRIDGE

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: ROOT, TOWN OF

CURRYTOWN
REFORMED CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1790. PREVIOUS
SERVICES HELD IN BARN OF JACOB
DIEVENDORF. FIRST PASTOR
REV. J.R.H. HASBROUCK
Location: ON NYS 162 AT CURRYTOWN
HOME OF
VOLKERT VROOMAN
WHERE ACCORDING TO
TRADITION WASHINGTON
STAYED OVERNIGHT ON HIS
VISIT THROUGH THE VALLEY
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT RANDALL
RAIDER'S CAMP
OCTOBER 18, 1780
CAMP OF SIR
JOHN JOHNSON'S
INDIAN-TORY RAIDERS
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 5 1/2 MILES W. OF FULTONVILLE
THIS VICINITY RAIDED BY
TORIES AND INDIANS ON
JULY 9, 1781
FORT LEWIS FORMED A REFUGE
Location: ON NYS 162 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES N.W. OF RURAL GROVE
TI-ON-NON-TO-GEN
GREAT CASTLE OF MOHAWKS
ON HEIGHTS ABOVE
DESTROYED BY
FRENCH-INDIAN ARMY 1666
Location: ON NYS 162 AT SPRAKERS

County: MONTGOMERY
Town: ST. JOHNSVILLE, TOWN OF

300 FT. NORTH [ARROW]
SITE OF
REFORMED CHURCH
1750
FIRST CHURCH ORGANZATION
IN TOWN OF ST. JOHNSVILLE
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF ST. JOHNSVILLE

County: NASSAU
Town: HEMPSTEAD, TOWN OF

"CHERRYWOOD"
HOME OF CAPT. JOHN SEAMAN
PIONEER SETTLER JERUSALEM
BUILT NEAR THIS SITE 1644.
PATENTEE TO 300 ACRE TRACT
OF HEMPSTEAD PURCHASE
Location: WANTAGH AVE., NO. OF JERUSALEM AVE., IN WANTAGH
1666 JACKSON -- JONES 1935
HOME OF COL. JOHN JACKSON
BRIG. GEN. JACOB S. JACKSON
SAMUEL JACKSON JONES (1923)
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
FOR TEN GENERATIONS
Location: MERRICK RD. E. OF RIVERSIDE DR., IN WANTAGH
BENJAMIN F. THOMPSON
1784-1849
WROTE "HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND"
WHILE LIVING HERE. HIS GRAVE
IS IN HEMPSTEAD.
Location: FULTON AVE., W. OF TERRACE AVE. IN HEMPSTEAD
DUKE'S LAWS CONVENTION
HELD NEAR THIS SPOT
IN OLD BUILDING, 1664-65
Location: W. SIDE COOPER FIELD PARKING SPACE BETWEEN FULTON & FRONT STS. IN HEMPSTEAD
GRIST MILL SITE
COL. JOHN JACKSON GRANTED
WHOLE LIBERTY AND PRIVILEGE
JERUSALEM RIVER 1704; ALSO
CONBURY PATENT 1708 FROM
QUEEN ANNE (NOW JONES BEACH)
Location: MERRICK RD. E. OF RIVERSIDE DR., IN WANTAGH
HOME OF
ALEXANDER DAVISON, SON OF
ROBERT DAVISON, REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIER, WHOSE GRANDSON
CHARLES AND FAMILY LIVED
HERE UNTIL THE YEAR 1921
Location: OCEAN & ATLANTIC AVES., IN E. ROCKAWAY
HOMESTEAD SITE
1687-1884
SIX GENERATIONS OF THE
JONATHAN SMITH JR. BRANCH
ROCK SMITH FAMILY.
LONG ISLAND SETTLERS, 1664
Location: MERRICK RD. E. OF CENTRAL BLVD. IN FREEPORT
INDIAN TRAIL
AND SEAMAN'S NECK PATH
THROUGH TRACT PURCHASED
FROM MASSAPEQUA INDIANS, 1664,
BY CAPTAIN JOHN SEAMAN;
BECAME PUBLIC HIGHWAY, 1762
Location: NYS 27 & SEAMAN NECK RD., IN SEAFORD
LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT
ON MAY 20, 1927, COL. CHARLES
A. LINDBERGH ROSE 1/4 MILE
WEST FROM ROOSEVELT FIELD,
LANDING 33 HOURS LATER AT
LE BOURGET FIELD, FRANCE
Location: ON POST AVE., NEAR ENTRANCE TO ROOSEVELT RACEWAY
MEETING HOUSE
BUILT 1827 BY RELIGIOUS
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS,
FIRST MEETING IN JERUSALEM
HELD AT HOME OF
BENJAMIN SEAMAN, 1699
Location: WANTAGH AVE., ABOUT 1/2 MI. NO. OF JERUSALEM AVE., IN WANTAGH
NORTH JERUSALEM
AVENUE
VERY OLD ROUTE
FROM HEMPSTEAD
TO JERUSALEM
SETTLED 1644
Location: WANTAGH AVE., NO. OF SOUTHERN STATE PKWY., IN WANTAGH
RICHARD JACKSON
CAPTAIN, JERUSALEM COMPANY,
QUEENS CO. MILITIA 1776,
LIVED HERE: DAUGHTER JANE
M. LT. JOHN ALTHAUSE, HESSIAN
ON BRITISH EVACUATION 1783
Location: WANTAGH AVE., S. OF STRATFORD RD., IN WANTAGH
ROCK HALL
COLONIAL MANOR HOUSE
BUILT BY JOSIAH MARTIN 1767
RESIDENCE OF HEWLETT FAMILY
1824-1948
OWNED BY TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD
Location: B'WAY AT ENTRANCE TO ROCK HALL, VLGE. OF LAWRENCE
SAND HOLE
CHURCH
SITE OF CONVERTED STORE.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
IN FREEPORT, 1833-58
NEAR CORNER OF OLD
CROOKED AVENUE
Location: BABYLON TRNPKE. & SEAMAN AVE. IN FREEPORT
SITE OF
GRIST AND SAW MILL
OF DANIEL RAYNOR
RAYNORTOWN SETTLED
BY EDWARD RAYNOR OR
HIS CHILDREN, 1659
Location: MILL RD., E. OF NASSAU RD. IN FREEPORT
SITE OF
FIRST GRIST AND SAW MILL
BUILT BY JOSEPH HAVILAND
IN 1688. LAST OPERATORS
CHARLES DAVISON AND SONS,
ROBERT, HERBERT, AND JOHN
Location: E. ROCKAWAY RD. OCEAN AVE., E. ROCKAWAY
SITE OF
STAGE COACH STOP
ROUTE BROOKLYN TO BABYLON;
MERRICK POST OFFICE AND
GENERAL STORE 1840-73;
"LIBERTY FLAG POLE" 1862-92
Location: BABYLON TRNPKE. S. OF MEADOWBROOK RD.
SITE OF
INDIAN VILLAGE
LODGES OF MEROKE TRIBE
WERE FEW HUNDRED FEET
SOUTH. MERRICK SETTLED
IN 1643.
Location: NYS 27, W. OF CENTRAL BLVD. IN MERRICK
SITE OF
FIRST POST OFFICE, 1869
RICHARD CARMAN AND
L.D. SIMONS IN CHARGE
FIRST CALLED NEAR ROCKAWAY
NOW, EAST ROCKAWAY
Location: MAIN ST., SO. OF ATLANTIC AVE. IN E. ROCKAWAY
SITE OF
COL. RICHARD HEWLETT HOME.
FAMOUS TORY OF LONG ISLAND,
WHO PLANNED TO CAPTURE GEN.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Location: MAIN ST., BETWEEN CARMAN AND GRANT AVES., IN ROCKAWAY
SITE OF HOME
ROBERT JACKSON
PIONEER SETTLER JERUSALEM,
1644. PATENTEE TO TRACT
SOUTHWARD AFTER
HEMPSTEAD PURCHASE
Location: WANTAGH AVE., S. OF HEMPSTEAD AVE., IN WANTAGH
SITE OF OVEN
FIRST OVEN FOR PUBLIC USE.
SOLD BY AARON ALBURTIS TO
ISAAC BLOOM IN 1760. BREAD
WAS BAKED HERE FOR THE
NEIGHBORS TWICE A WEEK
Location: MAIN ST., SO. OF ATLANTIC AVE. IN E. ROCKAWAY
THIS HOME
WAS GIVEN TO JOHN HEWLETT
BY HIS GRANDFATHER, GEORGE
HEWLETT, WHO CAME HERE FROM
ENGLAND IN 1636. THE HOME
IS STILL IN THE FAMILY
Location: E. ROCKAWAY RD., E. OF B'WAY IN HEWLETT
WANTAGH
FIRST SETTLEMENT 1644
NAMED IN MEMORY OF
GRAND SACHEM OF MONTAUKS
1651-1658
Location: WANTAGH AVE., N. OF MERRICK RD. IN WANTAGH
WANTAGH
FIRST SETTLEMENT 1644
NAMED IN MEMORY OF
GRAND SACHEM OF MONTAUKS
1651-1658
FOR TEN GENERATIONS
Location: MERRICK RD. AT WANTAGH CAUSEWAY

County: NASSAU
Town: OYSTER BAY, TOWN OF

BROAD SPRING
THIS SPRING MARKS
POINT LAID OUT IN
FIRST HIGHWAY SURVEY OF
BETHPAGE MADE 1732
BY SAMUEL WILLIS
Location: CENTRAL AVE. & MEETING HOUSE RD., IN FARMINGDALE
CANTIAG WOODS
NORTHWEST CORNER OF LAND
CONVEYED BY INDIAN DEED.
TO ROBERT WILLIAMS 1648.
ROCK PLACED AS TOWN
BOUNDARY MARKER 1745.
Location: CANTIAGUE RD. & W. JOHN ST. IN HICKSVILLE
COUNCIL ROCK
HERE GEORGE FOX, 1672, MET
WITH WRIGHTS, UNDERHILL AND
FEEKE AT QUAKER GATHERINGS
Location: LAKE AVE., S. OF W. MAIN ST., OYSTER BAY
FORTIFIED
HILL
OCCUPIED BY
COLONEL SIMCOE'S
QUEENS RANGERS
1779-81
Location: ORCHARD & PROSPECT STS., IN OYSTER BAY
HOME OF
SAMUEL JONES 1734-1819
"FATHER OF THE N.Y. BAR"
GRANDSON OF THOMAS JONES
STUDIED LAW WITH
WILLIAM SMITH
Location: MERRICK RD., E. OF NYS 107 IN MASSAPEQUA
POWELL HOME
BUILT BY THOMAS POWELL
IN 1700 AFTER PURCHASE
OF BETHPAGE FROM
MASSAPEQUA INDIAN TRIBE
OCTOBER 18, 1695
Location: MERRITT RD., NO. OF FULTON ST., IN FARMINGDALE
QUAKER
MEETING HOUSE
BUILT AND FIRST
MEETINGS HELD 1698
Location: MEETING HOUSE RD., E. OF BETHPAGE STATE PK. CLUB HOUSE, FARMINGDALE
RAYNHAM HALL
BUILT 1740; USED BY BRITISH
AS COL. SIMCOE'S HDGTS;
INFORMATION FROM HERE LED TO
MAJOR ANDRE'S CAPTURE AFTER HIS
VISITS; HOME OF ROBERT TOWNSEND,
WASHINGTON'S SPY
Location: RTE. 106, NO.SIDE W. MAIN ST., OYSTER BAY
YOUNGS HOME
GEORGE WASHINGTON
RESTED HERE ON
APRIL 23/24, 1790
WHILE ON HIS
LONG ISLAND TOUR
Location: COVENECK & OYSTER BAY-SYOSSET RD, OYSTER BAY

County: NEW YORK
Town: NONE

"AN AMIABLE CHILD"
GRAVE OF ST. CLAIRE POLLOCK,
KILLED BY FALL OVER CLIFF,
1797. PLOT DEEDED BY UNCLE,
GEORGE POLLOCK, TO CORNELIA
VERPLANCK TO PRESERVE.
Location: GRANT'S TOMB
BOWLING GREEN
CENTER OF NEW AMSTERDAM
ABOUT 1650; MARKET AND
PARADE FOR SOLDIERS. HERE
INDIANS SOLD MANHATTAN
TO PETER MINUIT, 1626.
Location: BOWLING GREEN
BRITISH LINES
ERECTED IN 1776, TO DEFEND
MANHATTAN ISLAND, WITH
BLOCKHOUSES AND BATTERIES,
EXTENDED ACROSS THESE HILLS
ON THE LINE OF 100TH STREET.
Location: 2 EAST DRIVE
BRITISH LINES
CHAMBERS STREET MARKS THE
LINE OF FORTIFICATIONS AND
SOLDIERS' BARRACKS BUILT
BY THE BRITISH DURING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Location: CHAMBERS ST.
BRITISH PROVOST
SITE OF MILITARY PRISON
DURING THE REVOULTION.
ETHAN ALLEN CONFINED THERE.
LATER DEBTORS' PRISON
AND REGISTER'S OFFICE.
Location: CHAMBERS STREET
BRYANT PARK
ONCE PART OF THE FARM OF
ROBERT MURRAY, WHOSE WIFE
DELAYED GEN. HOWE'S CHASE
OF WASHINGTON, 1776. LATER
CROTON WATER RESERVIOR.
Location: BRYANT PARK
CASTLE GARDEN
BUILT 1807. AS A BATTERY;
AMUSEMENT HALL 1824; OPERA
HOUSE 1847, WHERE JENNY LIND
SANG; IMMIGRATION BUREAU,
1855-1891; NOW THE AQUARIUM.
Location: BATTERY PARK AQUARIUM
CITY HALL
BEGUN IN 1803, COMPLETED
IN 1812. THE ARCHITECT WAS
JOHN MCCOMB, JR. THE FRONT
AND SIDES OF MARBLE, REAR OF
BROWNSTONE, FOR ECONOMY.
Location: CITY HALL
CITY HALL PARK
OLD DUTCH VLACTE (FLAT).
OR PASTURE, LATER CALLED
THE COMMON; GRANTED TO
THE CITY IN 1686 BY THE
DONGAN CHARTER
Location: CITY HALL
CORLAER'S HOOK
INDIAN VILLAGE, NAIGIANAC,
"SAND LANDS," TRAIL ALONG
LINE OF GRAND STREET, ACROSS
MANHATTAN; LATER OCCUPIED BY
FARM OF JACOB CORLAER.
Location: CORLAER'S HOOK PARK
FORT AMSTERDAM
SUCCEEDING BLOCKHOUSE OF
FUR TRADERS, 1615; BUILT IN
1626 BY PETER MINUIT, WHERE
CUSTOM HOUSE STANDS. IN 1790
SITE OF GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
Location: BATTERY PARK
FORT CLINTON
NAMED FOR MAYOR DEWITT
CLINTON, ERECTED IN 1814,
TO PROTECT NEW YORK CITY.
SITE OF BRITISH EARTHWORK
DURING THE REVOLUTION.
Location: CENTRAL PARK
FORT WASHINGTON
CENTRAL FORTIFICATION OF
AMERICAN DEFENSES OF THE
HEIGHTS, 1776. BUILT BY
COL. RUFUS PUTNAM, AND
PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS.
Location: FORT WASHINGTON
FORT WASHINGTON
AMERICAN GARRISON OF 3,000
CAPTURED, NOV. 16, 1776, BY
9,000 BRITISH AND HESSIANS,
LATER NAMED FORT KNYPHAUSEN,
AFTER THE HESSIAN GENERAL.
Location: FORT WASHINGTON
GRACIE HOUSE
BUILT BY ARCHIBALD GRACIE,
MERCHANT, 1813. EARLIER
HORN'S HOOK, WHERE BATTERIES
WERE PLACED IN REVOLUTION
AND THE WAR OF 1812.
Location: GRACIE PARK
HAMILTON GRANGE
GEN. ALEXANDER HAMILTON
ONE OF THE FRAMERS OF
THE CONSTITUTION, FIRST
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
BUILT THIS HOUSE IN 1802
Location: 287 CONVENT AVE., NEW YORK CITY
JUMEL MANSION
BUILT BY COL. ROGER MORRIS
1765; OCCUPIED BY WASHINGTON,
SEPT.-OCT., 1776; LATER BY
STEPHEN JUMEL, FRENCH WINE
MERCHANT, 1810 TO 1832
Location: EDGECOMBE AVE., WEST 160TH ST.
MADISON SQUARE
ORIGINALLY PARADE GROUND
MADE CITY PARK IN 1837.
DOUBLE LINE OF TREES NORTH
FROM FOUNTAIN MARKS LINE OF
OLD POST ROAD, CLOSED 1844.
Location: MADISON SQUARE PARK
MARGARET CORBIN
WIFE OF JOHN CORBIN, OF A
PENNSYLVANIA BATTERY, KILLED
HERE IN THE BATTLE OF FORT
WASHINGTON, FIRED HIS GUN
UNTIL SHE WAS BADLY WOUNDED.
Location: FORT TRYON PARK
MCGOWN'S PASS
HERE STOOD ORIGINAL TAVERN
ON OLD POST ROAD, BUILT 1750
BY JACOB DYCKMAN, SOLD 1760
TO MRS. DANIEL MCGOWN, WHO
KEPT RESORT FOR FOXHUNTERS.
Location: CENTRAL PARK
MOUNT MORRIS
HERE WAS THE CALF PASTURE,
IN WHICH HARLEM DUTCH
SETTLERS HAD COMMON RIGHTS.
AMERICAN AND HESSIAN
BATTERIES ON SUMMIT, 1776.
Location: MT. MORRIS PARK
MOUNT MORRIS
CALLED SLANG BERG OR SNAKE
HILL BY DUTCH SETTLERS, FROM
RATTLESNAKES INFESTING IT.
TOWER ON SUMMIT RELIC OF OLD
VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Location: MT. MORRIS PARK
OAK VILLA
SITE OF COUNTRY SEAT OF
BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON, JUDGE
AND GENERAL, GRANDSON OF
PHILIP, LORD OF THE MANOR
OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, N.Y.
Location: RIVERSIDE DRIVE
OLD SHORE LINE[ARROW]
THE ORIGINAL HUDSON RIVER
SHORE TO 1700, WAS ON THE
LINE OF THE NINTH AVENUE
ELEVATED FROM GREENWICH
STREET TO THE SOUTH FERRY.
Location: BATTERY PARK, STATE ST. AND BATTERY PLACE
SPOUTING SPRING
IN COVE BELOW WAS RESORT
OF INDIANS, KNOWN AS
SHORAKAPKOK, OR "SITTING
DOWN PLACE." NAME OF SPRING
GIVEN TO SPUYTEN DUYVIL.
Location: INWOOD PARK
SPOUTING SPRING
HERE WAS THE SHORAKAPKOK
OR "SITTING DOWN PLACE,"
OF THE INDIANS WHO MADE
SPUYTEN DUYVIL A PLACE
FOR LOAFING AND EATING.
Location: SPUYTEN DUYVIL CREEK
SPUYTEN DUYVIL
EARLY DUTCH NAME OF THIS
STREAM, RESORT OF INDIANS
WHOSE PALISADED VILLAGE,
NIPNICHSEN, WAS ON SUMMIT
OF HILL ON NORTH SHORE.
Location: NEW BRIDGE DRIVE
STAMP ACT RIOT
CENTERED HERE IN 1765;
STATUE OF GEORGE III TORN
DOWN, 1776, AT READING OF
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
AND MELTED INTO BULLETS.
Location: BOWLING GREEN
STRIKER'S BAY
BRITISH OUTPOST IN BATTLE
OR HARLEM HEIGHTS. NEARBY
STOOD ELM THAT INSPRIED
GEORGE MORRIS' POEM, 1837
"WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE."
Location: RIVERSIDE DRIVE
THE CLAREMONT
BUILT 1785, BY MICHAEL HOGAN,
NAMED FOR HOME IN SURREY,
ENGLAND, OF KING WILLIAM IV,
WITH WHOM HOGAN SERVED AS
MIDSHIPMAN IN BRITISH NAVY.
Location: CLAREMONT
WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS
BUILT IN 1765 BY
COL. ROGER MORRIS
CENTER OF AMERICAN DEFENSE
OF NEW YORK, SEPT.-OCT., 1776
LATER HOME OF STEPHEN JUMEL.
Location: JUMEL TERR.
WHITEHALL FERRY
HERE IN 1783, WAS THE HEAD
OF THE WHITEHALL FERRY SLIP
WHERE WASHINGTON EMBARKED,
AFTER HIS FAREWELL TO HIS
OFFICERS IN FRAUNCES TAVERN.
Location: STATE ST. AND WHITEHALL ST.
[ARROW]
FORT TRYON
TROOPS, IN DEFENSE OF FORT
TROOPS, IN DEFENSE OF FORT
WASHINGTON, WITHSTOOD
4600 HESSIANS FOR HOURS.
Location: FORT TRYON PARK
[ARROW]
FORT TRYON
600 MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA
TROOPS, IN DEFENSE OF FORT
WASHINGTON, WITHSTOOD 4600
HESSIANS FOR HOURS. LATER
NAMED FOR BRITISH GEN. TRYON.
Location: FORT TRYON PARK
[ARROW]
HENRY HUDSON
IN THE HALF MOON, ANCHORED
OFF THIS POINT, SEPTEMBER,
1609. INDIANS OF NIPNICHSEN,
ON SPUYTEN DUYVIL HILL,
ATTACKED HUDSON'S CREW.
Location: INWOOD PARK
[ARROW]
HIGH BRIDGE
BUILT IN 1842 TO CARRY THE
FIRST CROTON AQUEDUCT
ACROSS THE HARLEM RIVER.
ORIGINAL NARROW CENTER
ARCHES REMOVED IN 1928.
Location: HIGH BRIDGE PARK

County: NIAGARA
Town: LEWISTON, TOWN OF

FIVE MILE MEADOWS
IN 1813 THE BRITISH FORCES
LANDED ON THE RIVER BANK
BELOW AND MARCHED TO BURN
MANCHESTER, A VILLAGE ON
THE SITE OF NIAGARA FALLS
Location: ON NYS 18 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. N., OF VLGE. OF LEWISTON
FIVE MILE MEADOWS
ON DEC. 19, 1813 BRITISH TROOPS
COMMANDED BY COLONEL MURRAY LANDED
ON SHORE OF RIVER AND MARCHING NORTH
CAPTURED FORT NIAGARA WHICH
THEY HELD UNTIL MAY 22, 1815
Location: ON NYS 18 ABOUT 2 MIS. NORTH OF VILLAGE OF LEWISTON
FORT JONCAIRE
2ND BUILDING IN LEWISTON
BUILT 1719 NEAR THIS SPOT
A PALISADED TRADING POST
FIRST FRENCH FORT ON
NIAGARA RIVER
Location: AT APPROACH TO TOLL BRIDGE OVER NIAGARA R., VLGE. LEWISTON
OLD TRAMWAY
WAS BUILT HERE BY BRITISH
IN 1763 FROM LANDING
TO HEIGHTS ABOVE
FACILITATING PORTAGE
Location: AT END OF TOLL BRIDGE ACROSS NIAGARA R., VILGE. OF LEWISTON

County: NIAGARA
Town: LOCKPORT, CITY OF

FIRST METHODIST
EPISCOPAL SOCIETY
ORGANIZED OCT. 1823, CHURCH
ERECTED 1833, DESTROYED BY FIRE
NOV. 1854, REBUILT 1859, RAZED 1936
EMANUEL CHURCH BUILT 1928.
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF CHURCH & NIAGARA STS.
RESIDENCE OF
WASHINGTON HUNT
FIRST JUDGE OF NIAGARA COUNTY,
1836; STATE COMPTROLLER;
CONGRESSMAN; GOVERNOR. PRES.
VAN BUREN WAS GUEST HERE.
Location: ON MARKET ST. JUST NORTH OF ADAM ST.
THE BIG BRIDGE
ONE OF THE WIDEST IN THE WORLD,
BUILT, 1914, BY NEW YORK
STATE, SPANNING ERIE BARGE
CANAL. WIDTH 399 FT. 7 IN.
ROADWAY OF CREOSOTE WOOD BLOCK.
Location: ON MAIN ST. AT BARGE CANAL BRIDGE
UNION SCHOOL
FIRST UNION SCHOOL IN STATE,
CREATED BY ACT OF MARCH 31,
1847, ERECTED 1847-48,. OPENED
JULY 4, 1848. FOUNDED BY
HON. SULLIVAN CAVERNO.
Location: ON CHESTNUT ST. BETWEEN WASHBURN & CHARLES STS.
WASHINGTON HUNT
LAW OFFICE, 1834-1860
BURNED AND REBUILT, 1835.
Location: ON MARKET ST. S. OF ADAM ST.

County: NIAGARA
Town: LOCKPORT, TOWN OF

COLD SPRINGS
CEMETERY
WATER POISONED BY INDIANS
IN 1812 CAUSED DEATH OF
BRITISH AND FRENCH SOLDIERS,
FIRST PEOPLE BURIED HERE
Location: ON TOWN RD. NEAR EASTERN LIMITS OF CITY OF LOCKPORT
WYNDAMLAWN
HOME FOR CHILDREN. WAS
PREVIOUSLY SUMMER HOME
OF GOVRNOR HUNT
Location: ON OLD NIAGARA RD. NEAR JUNCTION WITH NYS 78

County: NIAGARA
Town: NIAGARA FALLS, CITY OF

FRENCH LANDING
200 YEARS AGO IN THIS PARK
WAS THE TERMINUS OF THE
OLD FRENCH PORTAGE, WHERE
GOODS WERE TRANSHIPPED
WHEN ONLY CANOES WERE USED
Location: ON BAFFALO AVE. AT 10TH ST.
FRENCH PORTAGE
NEARBY RAN THE OLD FRENCH
HIGHWAY FOR FUR TRADE, WORN
BY THOUSANDS OF FEET IN
MOCCASINS BEFORE THE PILGRIMS
LANDED ON PLYMOUTH ROCK
Location: ON PINE ST. BETWEEN PORTAGE RD. AND 11TH ST.
NAVY ISLAND
ACROSS THE RIVER LIES NAVY
ISLAND; ON IT WAS A FRENCH
SHIPYARD. AFTER CAPTURE BY
BRITISH, VESSELS FOR USE ON
LAKE ERIE WERE BUILT THERE.
Location: ON BUFFALO AVE. BETRWEEN 53RD AND 54TH STS.
OLD BLOCKHOUSE
HERE STOOD ONE OF A LINE OF
BLOCKHOUSES BUILT 1764 BY
MONTRESOR TO PROTECT THE
ARMY OF BRADSTREET FROM
INDIAN MASSACRES ON MARCH
Location: ON PORTAGE RD. BETWEEN FERRY AND BYRD AVES.
PORTAGE ROAD
AN INDIAN TRAIL USED
BEFORE WHITE MEN SETTLED IN
AMERICA. HIGHWAY FOR FRENCH
FUR TRADE. LATER IMPROVED BY
BRITISH AS MILITARY ROAD
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF BUFFALO AVE. AND PORTAGE RD.
SITE OF
"FORT DU PORTAGE"
"FORT LITTLE NIAGARA" BUILT
1751 TO PROTECT FRENCH
TRADE. BURNED, 1759 DURING
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, EXCEPT
CHIMNEY. MOVED TOWARDS RIVER
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF BUFFALO AVE. AND PORTAGE RD.
SITE OF
FIRST HOUSE
BUILT BY JUDGE PORTER IN
1808. MANY NOTABLE VISITORS
AND FRIENDLY INDIANS WERE
RECEIVED WITHIN ITS WALLS.
Location: ON BUFFALO AVE. BETWEEN 1ST & 3RD STS.

County: NIAGARA
Town: PORTER, TOWN OF

BRITISH FORCES
UNDER BRIG. GEN. JOHN PRIDEAUX
AND SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
LANDED AT MOUTH OF FOUR MILE
CREEK, JULY 6, 1759.
BESIEGED FORT NIAGARA
Location: AT BRIDGE OVER 4 MILE CREEK ABOUT 4 MIS. E. OF YOUNGSTOWN
FOX POINT BATTERY
ON BANK OF RIVER TO WEST
IS SITE OF FOX POINT BATTERY
FIFTH IN SERIES OF BATTERIES
EXTENDING SOUTH FROM FORT
NIAGARA DURING WAR OF 1812
Location: ON MAIN ST., IN YOUNGSTOWN
SITE OF
SALT BATTERY
THIS BATTERY WAS AN
IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE
PROTECTION OF THE NIAGARA
FRONTIER DURING WAR OF 1812
Location: ON MAIN ST., YOUNGSTOWN
[ARROW]
SITE OF BATTLE
LA BELLE FAMILIE
JULY 24, 1759, DECIDING
BRITISH CAPTURE OF
FRENCH FORT NIAGARA
Location: ON MAIN ST., YOUNGSTOWN

County: NIAGARA
Town: ROYALTON, TOWN OF

SITE OF
FIRST CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
OF ROYALTON
1ST PASTOR, REV. OLIVER CASTLE.
ERECTED 1818; BURNED 1845;
REBUILT SAME YEAR; REMOVED 1885
AND LOT ADDED TO CEMETERY
Location: ON ORANGEPORT RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. S. INTRSCTN. SLAYTON SETTLEMENT RD.
[ARROW]
SITE OF
FIRST CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
OF ROYALTON
FIRST CHURCH
ON HOLLAND LAND PURCHASE
BETWEEN GENESEE AND NIAGARA RIVER. BUILT 1818
Location: AT INTRSCTN. ORANGEPORT RD. AND SLAYTON SETTLEMENT RD.

County: ONEIDA
Town: AUGUSTA, TOWN OF

"STONE CHURCH"
BUILT 1834 BY THE
CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY
DEDICATION SERMON BY REV.
O. BARTHOLOMEW, EARLY PASTOR
REV. JOHN CROSS
Location: NYS 12B IN ORISKANY FALLS
AMOS PARKER
1762-1842
TALLEST MAN IN AMERICAN ARMY.
SAVED GEN. LA FAYETTE'S LIFE.
PRESENT AT THE SURRENDER
OF CORNWALLIS. BURIED HERE.
Location: SALLSVILLE-AUGUSTA CO., RD., 1/2 ME. SOUTH OF AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA
ONEIDA COUNTY
MARCH 15TH 1798
FORMED FROM THE
TOWN OF WHITESTOWN
Location: ON NYS 26 IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA ACADEMY
FOUNDED 1834. SEMICIRCULAR
STONE BUILDING USED UNTIL
1878. ITS UNIQUE DESIGN
WAS A CURIOSITY. FIRST
TEACHER MELVILLE ADAMS.
Location: ON NYS 26 IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1797, BY
CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY
Location: ON NYS 26 IN AUGUSTA
CASSETY HOLLOW SPACE &
SETTLED IN 1794
THOMAS CASSETY, WHO
ERECTED A GRIST MILL
HERE. LATER RENAMED
ORISKANY FALLS
Location: NYS 12-B & NYS 26 IN ORISKANY FALLS
CHENAGO CANAL
AUTHORIZED 1833. UTICA TO
BINGHAMTON. COMPLETED 1836.
72 LOCKS IN 30 MILES.
ABANDONED 1876
Location: NYS 26, ORISKANY FALLS
DR. A. BURGOYNE
1737-1824
BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY. WAS
PHYSICIAN AT SARATOGA UNDER
GEN. BURGOYNE, 1777. LIVED
WITH DAUGHTER IN AUGUSTA.
Location: SOUTH ST. IN KNOXBORO
INDIAN TRAIL
USED BY ONEIDA, TUSCARORA,
BROTHERTON AND STOCKBRIDGE
INDIANS AS A CHANNEL OF
COMMERCE ABOUT 1700. MADE
HIGHWAY SOON AFTER 1800
Location: WEST ST. IN KNOXBORO
KNOX HOUSE
BUILT 1820 BY GEN. J. J. KNOX,
PIONEER SETTLER, 1791-1876.
VILLAGE OF KNOXBORO NAMED
IN HIS HONOR
Location: SOUTH ST. IN KNOXBORO
SITE OF
LOCK COMPANY
ORGANIZED 1862, BY J.C.
KNOX. HIGH GRADE LOCKS
WERE MANUFACTURED HERE
FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
Location: WEST ST. IN KNOXBORO
SITE OF
THE GUNN HOUSE
ABOUT 500 FEET FROM HERE
BUILT IN 1793. FIRST HOUSE
IN THE TOWN OF AUGUSTA BUILT
BY A WHITE SETTLER.
Location: COLLEGE ST. RD., 1/2 MILE NORTH OF ORISKANY FALLS
SITE OF
LOG SCHOOL
FIRST IN AUGUSTA, BUILT 1797.
AUGUSTA THEN KNOWN AS
BARTLETT'S CORNER. USED AS
CHURCH AND MEETING HOUSE
Location: SALLSVILLE-AUGUSTA CO. RD. 1 1/2 MIS. SOUTH OF AUGUSTA
UNION CHURCH
BUILT 1849 BY METHODISTS
AND PRESBYTERIANS. LUMBER
HAULED FROM OLD CHURCH BUILT
ABOUT 1800 ON EAST HILLS.
CONVERTED TO SCHOOL 1873.
Location: SOUTH & EAST STS., KNOXBORO
UTICA CLINTON &
BINGHAMTON R.R.
FORMED 1862. COMPLETED
FROM UTICA TO TERMINATE
AT THIS SITE 1858,
EXTENDED SOUTH 1871
Location: BROAD ST., ORISKANY FALLS

County: ONEIDA
Town: BOONVILLE, TOWN OF

BLACK RIVER CANAL
SITE OF LOCK 71, SUMMIT
LEVEL; 710 FEET ABOVE ROME;
FROM HERE WATER FLOWED
NORTH TO ST LAWRENCE,
SOUTH TO MOHAWK
Location: ON NYS 12 IN BOONVILLE
BLACK RIVER CANAL
SITE OF THE ONCE FAMOUS
FIVE COMBINES-WORLD'S RECORD
FOR NUMBER OF CANAL LOCKS;
CANAL HAS 109 LOCKS IN 35 MILES
OF WATERWAY
Location: NYS 46 AT ENTRANCE TO PIXLEY FALLS PARK
BOONVILLE
SETTLED 1795; NAMED FOR
GERRIT BOON, NATIVE LEYDEN,
HOLLAND, AGENT OF HOLLAND LAND
CO.; TOWN FORMED 1805; VILLAGE
INCORPORATED 1855
Location: ON NYS 12-D IN BOONVILLE
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
SOCIETY ORGANIZED 1805
PRESENT EDIFICE BUILT 1855-1856
RE-DEDICATION 1955
Location: SO. SIDE JAMES ST., BOONVILLE
OLD FRENCH ROAD
BUILT BY FRENCH COLONISTS,
1790 ON WAY TO SETTLE
CASTORLAND; FIRST ROAD TO
NORTH COUNTRY, FOLLOWING AN
IROQUOIS WAR TRAIL.
Location: ON NYS 12, 1 MILE S.E. OF BOONVILLE
POST HOUSE, 1817
FIRST USED AS A SCHOOL
LATER BOUGHT WITH LARGE
TRACT OF LAND BY JOHN G. POST
PASSED FROM FAMILY IN 1905
Location: SO. SIDE OF POST ST., BOONVILLE

County: ONEIDA
Town: BRIDGEWATER, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
DR. STEPHEN MOULTON BABCOCK
INVENTOR OF BABCOCK MILK TEST
SCIENTIST, EDUCATOR, FRIEND
BENEFACTOR OF ARGRICULTURE
1843-1931
Location: TOWN RD. AT BABCOCK HILL
BRIDGEWATER
ONEIDA COUNTY
MARCH 24TH 1797
TRANSFERRED FROM
CHENANGO COUNTY
APRIL 4TH 1804
Location: ON US 20 IN BRIDGEWATER

County: ONEIDA
Town: DEERFIELD, TOWN OF

DEERFIELD
ONEIDA COUNTY
MARCH 15TH 1798
FORMED FROM THE
TOWN OF SCHUYLER
HERKIMER COUNTY
Location: NYS 8, 2 MIS. NO. OF NYS 5 & 12
[ARROW]
17 MILES
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
NEAR REMSEN
Location: NYS 12, 1 MI. NO. OF NYS 5

County: ONEIDA
Town: FLOYD, TOWN OF

FLOYD
MARCH 4TH 1796
NAMED IN HONOR OF
WILLIAM FLOYD, 1734-1821
A SIGNER OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Location: NYS 46 IN FLOYD

County: ONEIDA
Town: FORESTPORT, TOWN OF

FORESTPORT
TOWN-1869. VILLAGE-1903.
FIRST SETTLEMENT 1795
IN 1777 ST. LEGER'S INDIANS
RETREATED THROUGH HERE
ORISKANY TO CROWN POINT.
Location: RIVER AND WHITE LAKE STS. IN FORESTPORT
ST. LEGER'S HILL
1777
EASTERLY OVER THIS ROUTE
450 OF ST. LEGER'S INDIANS
RETREATED FROM ORISKANY
TO CROWN POINT
Location: N. LAKE RD., 5 MIS. EAST OF FORESTPORT

County: ONEIDA
Town: KIRKLAND, TOWN OF

ELIHU ROOT
SECRETARY OF WAR
SECRETARY OF STATE
UNITED STATES SENATOR
WAS BORN IN THIS BUILDING
FEBRUARY 15, 1845
Location: HAMILTON COLLEGE CAMPUS, CLINTON
FIRST GRIST MILL
NEAR THIS SPOT FRIST GRIST
MILL WAS BUILT IN WINTER
OF 1787. BEFORE THIS EARLY
SETTLERS HAD TO CARRY GRIST
TO WHITESTOWN
Location: NYS 412 IN CLINTON
HAMILTON COLLEGE
FOUNDED AS HAMILTON-ONEIDA
ACADEMY, 1793 BY THE REV.
SAMUEL KIRKLAND. CHARTERED
AS HAMILTON COLLEGE
MAY 26, 1812.
Location: HAMILTON COLLEGE CAMPUS, CLINTON
HAMILTON COLLEGE CHAPEL
1827
AN UNUSUAL AND DISTINCTIVE
THREE STORY CHURCH
DESIGENED BY PHILIP HOOKER
OF ALBANY
Location: HAMILTON COLLEGE CAMPUS, CLINTON
WASHINGTON TRACT
THESE LANDS ARE PART OF
PARCEL OF GROUND DEEDED
TO NATHANIEL GRIFFIN BY
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND
DEWITT CLINTON IN 1790
Location: NYS 233, 1 1/2 MIS. SOUTH OF KIRKLAND

County: ONEIDA
Town: MARCY, TOWN OF

[ARROW] 17 MILES
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
NEAR REMSEN
Location: NYS 49 AND NYS 12-C

County: ONEIDA
Town: MARSHALL, TOWN OF

HOME OF
BROTHERTON INDIANS
1783-1850
AMONG WHOM LIVED, 1785-1792,
SAMSON OCCOM
INDIAN PRESBYTERIAN PREACHER
Location: NYS 315, 4 MIS., N.W. OF WATERVILLE

County: ONEIDA
Town: NEW HARTFORD, TOWN OF

1ST RELIGIOUS
SOCIETY
OF THE TOWN OF WHITESTOWN
ORGANIZED 1791
CHURCH DEDICATED
NOV. 29, 1797
Location: NYS 5 AND NYS 12, NEW HARTFORD
A GRIST MILL
WAS BUILT 350 FEET EAST OF
HERE IN 1790 BY JEDEDIAH SANGER,
FIRST SETTLER AND FOUNDER OF
NEW HARTFORD
Location: OXFORD PL. & MILL ST., NEW HARTFORD
JEDEDIAH SANGER
FOUNDED NEW HARTFORD IN
1788 BY PURCHASING 1000
ACRES OF LAND AND SETTLING
HERE WITH HIS FAMILY
Location: NYS 5 AND NYS 12, NEW HARTFORD

County: ONEIDA
Town: PARIS, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
[ARROW] DR. ASA GRAY
BORN NOVEMBER 18, 1810
DIED JANUARY 30, 1888
WORLD FAMOUS BOTANIST
Location: PINNACLE RD., IN SAUQUOIT
BIRTHPLACE OF
[ARROW] DR. ASA GRAY
BORN NOVEMBER 18, 1810
DIED JANUARY 30, 1888
WORLD FAMOUS BOTANIST
Location: PINNACLE RD., IN SAUQUOIT
METHODIST CHURCH
FIRST SERMON PREACHED IN
NORTHERN NEW YORK 1788
BY ELDER FREEBORN GARRETSON
WITHIN WHITESTOWN
SAUQUOIT SOCIETY FORMED 1788
FIRST IN CONFERENCE
Location: MOHAWK ST. AT PINNACLE RD. IN SAUQUOIT
[ARROW]
7/8 MILE
BIRTHPLACE OF
DR. ASA GRAY
WORLD FAMOUS BOTANIST
Location: NYS 8 AT PINNACLE RD., IN SAUQUOIT

County: ONEIDA
Town: REMSEN, TOWN OF

REMSEN
ONEIDA COUNTY
MARCH 15TH 1798
FORMED FROM THE TOWN OF
NORWAY, HERKIMER COUNTY
Location: NYS 12-B, REMSEN
[ARROW]
NEXT TURN RIGHT TO
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
Location: NYS 12-B, REMSEN
[ARROW]
4 MILES
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
NEAR REMSEN
Location: NYS 12 12-B, REMSEN
[ARROW]
1 MILE EAST
COL. MARINUS WILLETT ROUTED
BRITISH-TORY FORCE OCT. 30, 1783
ALONG WEST CANADA CREEK;
WALTER BUTLER, TORY LEADER
WAS KILLED BY AN ONEIDA
Location: FAIRCHILD RD., NORTH OF HINCKLEY RESERVIOR

County: ONEIDA
Town: ROME, CITY OF

1755-1756
[ARROW]
REVOLUTIONARY
BATTLEFIELDS
AND
COLONIAL
FORT SITES
Location: E. DOMINICK & BOUCK STS.
1755-1756
FORT WILLIAMS
GUARDED
UPPER MOHAWK LANDING
BURNED IN A PANIC
BY BRITISH GEN. WEBB
Location: BOUCK ST. BETWEEN E. WHITESBORO & E. DOMINICK STS.
DURING SIEGE OF
FORT STANWIX AUG. 1777
MAIN BRITISH CAMP
WAS BETWEEN THIS POINT
AND BLUFF TO SOUTH
Location: E. BLOOMFIELD ST. & ROOSEVELT AVE.
FORT CRAVEN
DESTROYED IN
BRITISH PANIC
BEFORE COMPLETION
AUG. 31, 1756
Location: E. WHITESBORO ST. BETWEEN BOUCK & MILL STS.
FORT NEWPORT
A SMALL COLONIAL POST
WHICH GUARDED
UPPER WOOD CREEK
LANDING PLACE
Location: CALVERT ST. BETWEEN ARSENAL ST. AND BREWER ALLEY
HERE PASSED
ANCIENT CARRY
PASSED SOUTHWARD TO
FORT NEWPORT AND
WOOD CREEK
Location: W. DOMINICK & JAY STS.
HERE PASSED
FROM EAST TO WEST THE
ANCIENT CARRY
FROM THE MOHAWK TO
WOOD CREEK
Location: GEORGE AND LIBERTY STS.
INLAND CANAL
BEGUN 1792
AND SECOND
ERIE CANAL
COMPLETED 1844
Location: SO. JAMES & E. WHITESBORO STS.
OLD BLACK RIVER CANAL
BUILDING 1836-1855; CONNECTED
MOHAWK VALLEY WITH BLACK RIVER
COUNTRY; OPENING UP 90 MILES
NAVIGABLE WATERWAY; JOINED
ERIE CANAL HERE.
Location: BLACK R. BLVD. & E. WHITESBORO ST.
ROME
MARCH 4TH 1796
FORMED FROM
THE TOWN OF
STEUBEN
Location: NO. JAMES & W. PARK STS.
SITE OF
U.S. ARSENAL
MAINTAINED DURING
WAR OF 1812 AND
SUBSEQUENTLY
Location: W. DOMINICK ST. BETWEEN ARSENAL & JAY STS.
THE CENTRAL N.Y.
SCHOOL
FOR THE DEAF
FOUNDED JAN. 27, 1875 BY
ALPHONSO JOHNSON, THOMAS
GALLAUDET AND ROME CITIZENS
Location: ON NYS 26
[ARROW]
HISTORIC ELM
THIS ELM WAS A SAPLING
GROWING ON THE SOUTHWEST
BASTION OF FORT STANWIX
IN 1804
Location: E. DOMINICK ST. BETWEEN JAMES AND SPRING STS.
[ARROW]
ONE BLOCK
TO SITE OF
FORT NEWPORT
AND WOOD CREEK
LANDING
Location: W. DOMINICK ST. & ARSENAL STS.
[ARROW]
FORT STANWIX
AND
REVOLUTIONARY
SKIRMISHES
Location: MILL AND E, WHITESBORO STS.
[ARROW]
LOWER LANDING
AND
ORISKANY
BATTLEFIELD
Location: MILL AND MARTIN STS.

County: ONEIDA
Town: ROME, TOWN OF

NORTHWEST 35 RODS
JESSE WILLIAMS
IN 1851 INAUGERATED THE
CHEESE FACTORY
SYSTEM
THUS REVOLUTIONIZING DAIRYING
Location: NYS 46, 2 MIS. N. OF ROME
ORISKANY
BATTLEFIELD
1777
PUBLIC WELCOME
Location: NYS 69 AT ORISKANY BATTLEFIELD
[ARROW]
20 MILES
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
NEAR REMSEN
Location: NYS 46 NORTH OF ROME

County: ONEIDA
Town: SANGERFIELD, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
GEORGE EASTMAN
INVENTOR OF KODAK
BORN JULY 12, 1854
DIED IN ROCHESTER
MARCH 14, 1932
Location: NYS 12 IN WATERVILLE
PROPERTY LINE
WESTERN BOUNDARY OF
CIVILIZATION FIXED BY
FORT STANWIX TREATY
NOV. 5, 1768. WITNESSED
BY SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
Location: NYS 12 NORTH OF WATERVILLE
SANGERFIELD
ONEIDA COUNTY
MARCH 15TH 1795
TRANSFERRED FROM
CHENANGO COUNTY
APRIL 4TH 1804.
Location: NYS 12 AT TOWN LINE

County: ONEIDA
Town: STEUBEN, TOWN OF

300 FEET WEST
SITE OF HOME
ROBERT EVERETT (1791-1875)
ANTI-SLAVERY REFORMER
MINISTER CHAPEL UCHA 37 YEARS
EDITOR "CENHADWR" (WELSH) 35 YEARS
Location: CO. RD., 1 MI. W. OF REMSEN
BARON STEUBEN
INSTECTOR GENERAL OF ARMY
MAJOR GENERAL IN REVOLUTION
CITIZEN OF UNITED STATES
AND NEW YORK STATE
Location: AT BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
BURIAL PLACE
OF SAMUEL SIZER, ABIGAIL
SIZER, ASA SIZER AND
ABIGAIL TYLER MITCHELL, THE
MOTHER OF ABIGAIL SIZER
Location: IN FIELD 1/4 MI. N. OF CO. RD., 2 MIS. E. OF STEUBEN
CAPEL ISAF OR
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
ONCE LOCATED HERE
CARED FOR THE GRAVE
OF BARON STEUBEN FOR
NINETY-FIVE YEARS
(1804-1899)
Location: CO. RD., 1 MI. W. OF REMSEN
CAPT. SIMEIN WOODRUFF
CIRCUMNAVIGATED GLOBE WITH
CAPT. COOK. LEASED THIS
FARM MAY 26, 1791
FROM BARON STEUBEN
BURIED CAPEL UCHA CEMETERY
Location: CO. RD., 1/2 MI. W. OF REMSEN
EENEZER WEEKS
SETTLED HERE 1791
BURIED IN ADJOINING MEADOW
BUILT BAKE OVEN AND DID
COOPERING FOR BARON STEUBEN
Location: CO. RD., 1/2 MI. W. OF REMSEN
FIRST GRAVE
OF BARON STEUBEN NEAR THIS SPOT
BY HIS OWN WISH HE WAS BURIED
WRAPPED IN HIS MILITARY CLOAK
IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE
Location: CO. RD. W. OF BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
FRIEDRICH WILHELM
BARON VON STEUBEN
BORN SEPTEMBER 17, 1730
MAGDEBURG, GERMANY DIED
HERE NOVEMBER 28, 1794
ERECTION COMPLETED 1872
Location: AT BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
FULLER FARM
ACQUIRED 1793 FROM BARON
STEUBEN BY CAPT. SIMEON
FULLER, B. 1761-D. 1852
HELD BY HIM AND HIS
DESCENDANTS TO THE PRESENT DAY
Location: CO. RD., 1 MI. W. OF REMSEN
GERMAN-AMERICAN
ORGANIZATIONS ASSISTED BY
STATE OF NEW YORK ERECTED
THIS TOMB IN HONOR OF THEIR
GREAT FELLOW COUNTRYMAN
Location: AT BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
SACRED GROVE
IS THE NAME GIVEN IN 1804
TO THESE WOODS HALLOWED
BY ASSOCIATIONS WITH
BARON STEUBEN, THE
AMERICAN PATRIOT
Location: AT BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
SAMUEL SIZER
FIRST SETTLER ON STEUBEN
GRANT, 1787. FARM
MANAGER FOR BARON STEUBEN
BURIAL PLACE IN MEADOW 80
RODS NORHT OF THIS MARKER
Location: CO. RD. 2 MIS. E. OF STEUBEN
SAW-MILL
OF BARON STEUBEN
BUILT 1790 NEAR THIS SPOT
REMAINS OF DAM VISIBLE
Location: NR. CREEK, NO. OF FULLER RD.
STARR HILL
NAMED FOR DAVID STARR
CAPTAIN IN CONTINENTAL ARMY
FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR OF
BARON STEUBEN
SETTLED HERE 1791
Location: CO. RD.1 MI. W. OF BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
STEUBEN GRANT
OF 16,000 ACRES BY THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, JUNE 27, 1786
FOR SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTION
HE CLEARED SIXTY ACRES NEAR HERE
FOR HOME SITE (1788-1793)
Location: CO. RD. W. OF BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
STEUBEN STATE
MEMORIAL PARK
INCLUDED FIFTY ACRES GIVEN
IN 1804 BY COL. BENJ. WALKER,
FRIEND AND AIDE OF STEUBEN,
TO SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
Location: AT BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
STEUBEN STATE
MEMORIAL PARK
DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 12, 1931
BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT,
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
Location: AT BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
THIS MONUMENT
COVERS THE REMAINS
OF BARON STEUBEN
GOVERNOR HORATIO SEYMOUR
LAID CORNERSTONE JUNE 1, 1870
ERECTION COMPLETED 1872
Location: AT BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
THIS PARK
WAS CREATED IN MEMORY
OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM BARON
STEUBEN, MAJOR GENERAL IN
THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
Location: AT BARON STEUBEN MEMORIAL
TOWN OF STEUBEN
FORMED APRIL 10, 1792
NAMED IN HONOR OF
BARON STEUBEN
ORIGINALLY EXTENDED TO
NORTH BOUNDS OF THE STATE
Location: NYS 46-A IN STEUBEN
WELSH IMMIGRANTS
BEGINNING 1795 CLEARED AND
SETTLED GREATER PART OF
STEUBEN GRANT. BUILT
FIRST CHURCH HERE 1804.
Location: CO. RD., 1/2 MI. W. OF REMSEN
[ARROW]
2 MILES
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
Location: CO. RD. FROM STEUBEN & REMSEN

County: ONEIDA
Town: TRENTON, TOWN OF

CINCINNATI CREEK
NAMED BY BARON STEUBEN
TO COMMEMORATE THE SOCIETY
OF THE CINCINNATI WHICH
HE HELPED TO FOUND IN 1783
Location: NYS 28, 2 MIS. S. E. OF TRENTON
TRENTON
ONEIDA COUNTY
MARCH 24, 1797
FORMED FROM THE
TOWN OF SCHUYLER,
HERKIMER COUNTY
Location: NYS 12 IN BARNEVELD

County: ONEIDA
Town: UTICA, CITY OF

BAGG'S TAVERN
ORIGINALLY A LOG HOUSE
FOUNDED 1794 BY MOSES BAGG
WASHINGTON, LA FAYETTE
HENRY CLAY & GEN. GRANT
WERE GUESTS HERE
Location: GENESEE AND MAIN ST.
[ARROW]
21 MILES
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
NEAR REMSEN
Location: ONEIDA ST. BETWEEN GEER & FERRIS AVES.
[ARROW] 17 MILES
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
NEAR REMSEN
Location: NYS 5 E. OF NYS 8 & 12

County: ONEIDA
Town: VERNON, TOWN OF

MISSION CHURCH
OF THE ONEIDAS BUILT BY
REV. ELEAZER WILLIAMS 1818
MOVED IN 1842 FROM ONEIDA
CASTLE BY UNITARIANS.
VERNON TOWN HALL SINCE 1892.
Location: SENECA AVE. BETWEEN VERONA AND SCONON DORA STS. IN VERNON
ONEIDA CASTLE
CHIEF VILLAGE OF ONEIDA
TRIBE OF INDIANS
MEMBERS OF
IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY
Location: NYS 5 IN ONEIDA CASTLE VILLAGE

County: ONEIDA
Town: VERONA, TOWN OF

ROYAL
BLOCKHOUSE
60 RODS EAST OF
THIS POINT STOOD
FORT ERECTED BY
BRITISH IN 1759
Location: NYS 13 IN SYLVAN BEACH
STARK'S LANDING
JAVEZ HOUGH STARK, PIONEER
BUILT 1ST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, SENECA FALLS 1807.
CAME HERE 1821; BUILT
HOUSE ACROSS CANAL 1823-5.
Location: NYS 46 IN HIGINSVILLE

County: ONEIDA
Town: WESTERN, TOWN OF

WESTERN
ONEIDA COUNTY
MARCH 10, 1797
FORMED FROM THE
TOWN OF STEUBEN
Location: NYS 46 NEAR SCHOOL IN WESTERNVILLE
[ARROW]
11 MILES
TOMB OF
BARON STEUBEN
IN STATE MEMORIAL PARK
NEAR REMSEN
Location: NYS 46 & 46-A IN FRENCHVILLE

County: ONEIDA
Town: WESTMORELAND, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
SAMUEL EELLS
1810-1842
WHO IN 1832 FOUNDED THE
ALPHA DELTA PHI FRATERNITY
AT HAMILTON COLLEGE
Location: CO. RD. IN WESTMORELAND

County: ONEIDA
Town: WHITESTOWN, TOWN OF

1ST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH OF WHITESBORO
ORGANIZED APRIL 1, 1793
BETHUEL DODD, 1ST PASTOR
Location: ELM AND MAIN STS., WHITESBORO
ENGLISH HOME
BUILT 1792. BIRTHPLACE OF
HENRY INMAN, 1801-46
ARTIST WHO EXCELLED IN
PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPES
AND MINIATURES
Location: NYS 69 IN YORKVILLE
HERE STOOD THE HOME OF
COLONEL GERRIT
G. LANSING
OFFICER IN CONT. ARMY
WHO PURCHASED LAND WHEREON
ORISKANYT WAS FOUNDED 1802
Location: DEXTER AVE. BETWEEN GRAHAM AND UTICA STS. IN ORISKANY
SITE OF
WOOLEN MILL
ERECTED IN 1810
BELIEVED TO BE THE 1ST
IN AMERICA TO MANUFACTURE
FABRICS FROM RAW MATERIAL
Location: NYS 69 IN ORISKANY
TOWN HALL
ERECTD 1807
EARLY CO. COURT HOUSE
PRESENTED TO WHITESTOWN
BY HON. PHILO WHITE
1860
Location: IN FRONT OF TOWN HALL, WHITESBORO
WHITESTOWN
MARCH 7TH 1788
NAMED IN HONOR OF
JUDGE HUGH WHITE
A FIRST SETTLER
MAY 1784
Location: MAIN ST. & VICTOR PKWY., WHITESBORO

County: ONONDAGA
Town: CAMILLUS, TOWN OF

SITE OF
HOME OF
JAMES GEDDES, 1798
ERIE CANAL SURVEYOR, 1808
CHIEF ENGINEER 1816-1825
Location: ON NYS 5 2 MILES W. OF SYRACUSE AT FAIRMOUNT CRS.

County: ONONDAGA
Town: CICERO, TOWN OF

EARLY SCHOOL
HERE STOOD SCHOOLHOUSE;
DISTRICT NO. 1, BUILT 1824.
FIRST DISTRICT SCHOOL IN
TOWN OF CICERO
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. S. OF BREWERTON
JOHN LEACH
MADE FIRST SETTLEMENT
AT CICERO CORNERS IN
1802. KEPT A TAVERN
IN LOGHOUSE
Location: ON RS 11 AT CICERO
LANDING PLACE
NEAR THIS POINT
VAN SCHAICK EXPEDITION
AGAINST ONONDAGAS LANDED
APRIL 20, 1779
Location: ON US 11 AT BREWERTON
SITE OF INDIAN VILLAGE
TECHIROGUEN
VISITED BY LE MOYNE 1654
AND BY LA SALLE 1673
Location: ON US 11 AT BREWERTON
TOLL-GATE HOUSE
BUILT AT SOUTH END
OF FIRST HIGHWAY BRIDGE,
1824 AT BREWERTON. MOVED
TO THIS SITE ABOUT 1850.
Location: ON BENNETT ST. AT BREWERTON

County: ONONDAGA
Town: CLAY, TOWN OF

CAUGHDENOY
LOCK
CONSTRUCTED BY
STATE OF NEW YORK
1841.
Location: ON CO. RD. AT CAUGHDENOY
OAK ORCHARD
LOCK
CONSTRUCTED BY
STATE OF NEW YORK
1840.
Location: ON CO. RD. 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF EUCLID
ONONDAGA NATION
OF INDIANS SETTLED HEREABOUTS
ACCORDING TO TRADITION
SEVERAL CENTURIES BEFORE
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
BY COLUMBUS, 1492.
Location: ON NYS 57 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF THREE RIVERS
SITE OF
MC GEE'S INN
(ACCORDING TO TRADITIONS)
PATRICK MC GEE, FIRST SETTLER
TOWN OF CLAY, 1793. IN 1791
KEPT FIRST INN AT BREWERTON.
Location: ON SOUTH BANK OF BARGE CANAL AT THREE RIVERS

County: ONONDAGA
Town: DEWITT, TOWN OF

DANFORTH MILLS
ON THIS SIDE OF THE CREEK
SAW MILL BUILT 1792
GRIST MILL 1793
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF JAMESVILLE
JOHN YOUNG
1752-1834
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
FIRST SETTLER HERE IN 1791
VILLAGE FIRST CALLED YOUNGSVILLE
Location: ON NYS 5 AND NYS 92 AT DEWITT
MOREHOUSE FLATS
BENJ. MOREHOUSE SETTLED HERE 1789
HIS LOG TAVERN OPENED 1790
MEXICO TOWN ORGANIZED HERE 1791
MEETING HERE PROPOSED FORMATION
OF ONONDAGA CO. DEC 23, 1793
Location: ON NYS 20 & NYS 173 ABOUT 1/2 MI. EAST OF JAMESVILE
UNION
CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH
BUILDING ERECTED 1808
SOCIETY MOVED TO JAMESVILLE
1828
Location: ON NYS 20 N & NYS 173 ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF JAMESVILLE

County: ONONDAGA
Town: ELBRIDGE, TOWN OF

BUILT ABOUT 1820
HOME OF COL. JOHN STEVENS,
ONONDAGA COUNTY MILITIA,
WAR OF 1812
Location: ON NYS 5 AT ELBRIDGE
THIS LOT
WAS PART OF MILITARY TRACT
OF CAPT. WM. STEVENS, MEMBER
MASS. SOCIETY CINCINNATI:
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF
SALT INDUSTRY.
Location: ON NYS 5 AT ELBRIDGE

County: ONONDAGA
Town: FABIUS, TOWN OF

ANDREWS CABIN
BUILT BY
WILLIAM ANDREWS
ABOUT 1821
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF FABIUS
BAPTIST CHURCH
FIRST IN TOWN OF FABIUS
UNBROKEN SERVICE SINCE
ITS ORGANIZATION ON
AUG. 24, 1803. THIS
BUILDING ERECTED 1818.
Location: ON NYS 80 AT FABIUS
FIRST CHURCH
IN THE VALLEY
ORGANIZED HERE 1803
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
OF FABIUS
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 3 MI. SOUTH OF FABIUS
SITE OF
WOODRUF CABIN
PIONEER HOME OF
GURDON WOODRUF
BUILT ABOUT 1795
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF FABIUS
SITE OF
KEENEY CABIN
INHABITED 1795 BY
SIMON KEENEY, JR.
BIRTHPLACE OF SON JOHN
FIRST WHITE CHILD
BORN IN THIS VALLEY 1797
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF FABIUS
WEBSTER CABIN
BUILT ABOUT 1820 BY
ELI WEBSTER
FIRST FRAME HOUSE
IN THIS VALLEY
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 3 MI. SOUTH OF FABIUS

County: ONONDAGA
Town: LAFAYETTE

HISTORIC CHURCH
LAFAYETTE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1808
ERECTED 1818

County: ONONDAGA
Town: LAFAYETTE, TOWN OF

CARDIFF GIANT
DISINTERRED NEAR THIS
VILLAGE ON OCT. 16, 1869.
REPRESENTED AS A PETRIFIED
PREHISTORIC MAN, IT WAS
SUBSEQUENTLY PROVED A HOAX
Location: ON US 20 AT CARDIFF
NEAR HERE WAS THE HOME OF
MOSES DEWITT
PIONEER SETTLER, SURVEYOR
MAJOR OF MILITIA AND
JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURT
Location: ON NYS 91 AT JAMESVILLE
[ARROW] 600 FEET
SITE OF INDIAN TOWN
ONONDAGA
1684-1696
DESTROYED AT TIME OF
FRONTENAC'S INVASION 1696
Location: ON NYS 91 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF JAMESVILLE

County: ONONDAGA
Town: LYSANDER, TOWN OF

BATTERY B
FIRST N.Y. LIGHT ARTILLERY DRILLED
NEAR THIS POINT UNDER THEIR
ORGANIZER, CAPT. RUFUS D. PETTIT,
IN THE SUMMER OF 1861.
Location: ON NYS 370 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BALDWINSVILLE
FIRST LIFT LOCK
THE FIRST LIFT LOCK TO BE
CONSTRUCTED WEST OF LITTLE
FALLS WAS BUILT HERE IN
1809 BY JONAS C. BALDWIN.
Location: ON NYS 31 & NYS 370 AT BALDWINSVILLE
FIRST SETTLER
THE HOME OF THE FIRST WHITE
SETTLER IN THE TOWNSHIP OF
LYSANDER, JONATHAN PALMER,
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER,
WAS BUILT ON THIS SITE, 1793.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT JACKSONVILLE
GRACE CHURCH
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WAS
THE FIRST CHURCH IN THE
UNITED STATES, ACCORDING TO
TRADITION, TO BE LIGHTED
BY ELECTRICITY
Location: ON ELIZABETH ST. AT BALDWINSVILLE
LOG CABIN SITE
JONAS C. BALDWIN, FOUNDER
OF BALDWINSVILLE, BUILT
THE FIRST LOG CABIN
ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE
RIVER NEAR THIS SPOT IN 1807
Location: ON NYS RD. AT BALDWINSVILLE
ON THIS HILL
IN THE ORIGINAL HOUSE, 31
WOMEN ORGANIZED THE FEMALE
CHARITABLE SOCIETY, SECOND
OLDEST WOMAN'S SOCIETY IN
THE U.S., JULY 27, 1817.
Location: ON NYS 31 AT BALDWINSVILLE
SITE OF
HALFWAY TAVERN
1814-34
STOPPING PLACE FOR STAGE
AND FOR OUDIAGA, INDIAN
RUNNER, FIRST MAIL CARRIER
BETWEEN SYRACUSE AND OSWEGO
Location: ON NYS 48 ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF BALDWINSVLLE

County: ONONDAGA
Town: MANLIUS, TOWN OF

CHERRY VALLEY TURNPIKE
TERMINATED HERE
COMPLETED ABOUT 1809, JOINING
THE SENECA TURNPIKE HERE
Location: ON ACADEMY STREET AT MANLIUS
CHRIST CHURCH
OLDEST CHURCH EDIFACE AND
OLDEST EPISCOPAL PARISH IN
ONONDAGA COUNTY, INC. 1804,
1811; BUILT 1813; REMOVED TO THIS SITE, 1832.
Location: ON NYS 173 AT MANLIUS
DEEP SPRING
TE-UNGH-SAT-AYAGH
450 FT. NORTH ON IROQUOIS TRAIL.
FIRST ROAD MADE 1790 BY GEN.
JAMES WADSWORTH. COUNTY
LINE AND SURVEY MARK.
Location: ON NYS 173 AT THE MADISON & ONONDAGA COUNTY LINE
FAYETTEVILLE
FIRST CALLED "MANLIUS FOUR
CORNERS". SETTLED IN 1791
BY ORIGEN EATON AND JOSHUS
KNOWLTON. BOYHOOD HOME OF
GROVER CLEVELAND
Location: ON NYS 5 AT FAYETTEVILLE
FAYETTEVILLE
FIRST CALLED "MANLIUS FOUR
CORNERS". SETTLED IN 1791
BY ORIGEN EATON AND JOSHUS
KNOWLTON. BOYHOOD HOME OF
GROVER CLEVELAND
Location: ON NYS 5 & NYS 92 AT FAYETTEVILLE
GEN. JOHN J. PECK
BORN HERE JAN. 4, 1821; WON
PROMOTION FOR GALLANTRY
MEXICAN WAR; MADE MAJ. GEN.
1862; DEFENDED SUFFOLK, VA.;
DIED SYRACUSE, APRIL 21, 1878.
Location: ON NYS 173 AT MANLIUS
GROVER CLEVELAND
PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES
1884-1888 AND 1892-1896.
HIS BOYHOOD HOME IS THE
FIRST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
NORTH OF THE CORNER HOUSE
Location: ON NYS 5 & NYS 92 AT FAYETTEVILLE
THE FIRST
SCHOOLHOUSE
IN THE TOWN OF MANLIUS
WAS BUILT OF LOGS AND
STOOD NEAR HERE IN 1798
Location: ON NYS 92 AT MANLIUS
THE MANLIUS SCHOOL
FOUNDED 1869
AS ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL
OLDEST BOY'S PRIVATE
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
Location: ON NYS 92 ABOUT 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF MANLIUS
THE MANLIUS SCHOOL
FOUNDED 1869
Location: ON NYS 92 & NYS 20 N AT MANLIUS
THIS WELL
DUG IN 1795 BY
JOSEPH WILLIAMS
SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION
WHOSE LOG HOUSE STOOD
ABOUT 50 FEET NORTH
Location: ON ROWN RD. ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF MANLIUS

County: ONONDAGA
Town: MARCELLUS, TOWN OF

FIRST SAWMILL
IN TOWN OF MARCELLUS
BUILT 1796 BY DEACON
SAMUEL RICE AND JUDGE
DAN BRADLEY
Location: ON NYS 20 N & NYS 175 AT MARCELLUS
SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH EDIFACE
IN ONONDAGA COUNTY,
COMPLETED 1803; PRESENT
CHURCH BUILT 1851
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
Location: ON NYS 20 N & NYS 175 AT MARCELLUS
SITE OF
TAVERN KEPT BY DEACON
SAMUEL RICE 1800
FIRST CHURCH SERVICES
WERE HELD HERE, ALSO
TOWN MEEETINGS
Location: ON NYS 175 AT MARCELLUS
SITE OF
OLD HOTEL KEPT BY DR.
BILDAB BEACH. GEN.
LAFAYETTE STOPPED HERE
JUNE 9, 1824
Location: ON NYS 20 N & NYS 175 AT MARCELLUS
SITE OF
FIRST FRAME HOUSE IN TOWN
OF MARCELLUS. BUILT BY DR.
ELNATHAN BEACH, WHO SERVED IN
AMERICAN REVOLUTION: SHERIFF OF
COUNTY FROM 1799 TO 1801
Location: ON NYS 20 N & NYS 175 AT MARCELLUS

County: ONONDAGA
Town: ONONDAGA, TOWN OF

FRANCIS ASBURY
FIRST BISHOP OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
PREACHED JUNE 26, 1807,
IN ONONDAGA COURT HOUSE
THEN STANDING ON THIS SITE
Location: ON NYS 20 N & NYS 175 AT ONONDAGA HILL
MORAVIANS
BISHOP SPANGENBERG AND DAVID
ZEISBERGER AS MISSIONARIES
CAME TO ONONDAGA INDIANS
NEAR HERE IN 1745. DAVID
RETURNED '50,'52, '53, '54, '66.
Location: ON NYS 11 A ABOUT 1 MI. SOUTH OF SYRACUSE
ONONDAGA RESERVATION
ESTABLISHED 1788.
THE ONONDAGA INDIAN NATION
FOUNDED THE IROQUOIS LEAGUE.
Location: ON NYS 11 A ABOUT 1 MI. SOUTH OF SYRACUSE
SENTINEL HEIGHTS
PIONEER CEMETERY
ANDREW SHARE, 1763-1847, REV.
SOLDIER, WHO GAVE LAND FOR
CEMETERY, SCHOOL HOUSE, AND
METHODIST CHURCH, BURIED HERE
Location: ON BULL HILL RD. ABOUT 4 MIS. SOUTHEAST OF SYRACUSE
SITE OF
FIRST COURT HOUSE
ERECTED IN 1802 ON LAND
DONATED TO ONONDAGA COUNTY
BY GEORGE HALL
AND THADDEUS WOOD
Location: ON NYS 20 N & NYS 175 AT ONONDAGA HILL
WAR OF 1812
CAPTAIN HENRY CROUCH AND
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN BRANCH
SOLDIERS OF WAR OF 1812
WHO DIED WHILE EMCAMPED
NEAR HERE ARE BURIED ABOVE.
Location: ON NYS 20 N & NYS 173 ABOUT 1/2 MI. EAST OF ONONDAGA HILL

County: ONONDAGA
Town: POMPEY, TOWN OF

ATWELL'S CORNERS
JOSEPH ATWELL, 1754-1834
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
SETTLED HERE 1792. OVERSEER
OF POMPEY HIGHWAYS 1794
OWNED LOT IN MILITARY TRACT
Location: ON CO. RD. AT MADISON & ONON. CO. LINE 4 MI. SOUTH OF ORAN
BAPTIST CHURCH
BUILT 1820 BY N. STERLING.
FREDERICK FREEMAN FIRST
PASTOR. ABANDONED IN 1834.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
1866-92. NOW LEMOYNE HALL.
Location: ON CO. RD. AT POMPEY
BIRTHPLACE OF
CHARLES MASON
BORN HERE IN LOG HOUSE 1804
GRADUATE WEST POINT 1829
CHIEF JUSTICE IOWA 1838-42
U.S. COMM'R PATENTS 1853-57.
Location: ON US 20 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF POMPEY
BIRTHPLACE OF
GOV. HORATIO SEYMOUR, 1811
TWICE GOVERNOR OF NEW
YORK STATE. DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT
AGAINST GRANT
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF US 20 AND NYS 91 AT POMPEY
CAPE COD COTTAGE
BUILT 1794
SLAVE RUNNING STATION
FOR SHELTERING SLAVES
DURING CIVIL WAR.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MI. S.E. OF ORAN
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
ORGANIZED OCT. 19, 1796
BY REV. AMENI R. ROBINSON
CHURCH BUILT IN 1817-18.
NOW POMPEY PRESBYTERIAN.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT POMPEY
DROVERS TAVERN, 1820
BUILT OF MATERIALS TAKEN FROM
PREMISES; DESIGN OF MAIN HOUSE
ON FILE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS;
LAST REMAINING TAVERN
FOR DROVERS.
Location: ON NYS 92 & NYS 20 N ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF ORAN
FIRST MASS
IN NEW YORK STATE
WAS OFFERED ABOUT 300 FEET NORTH
OF THIS MARKER BY REV. J.M.
CHAUMONT, 1655, IN A BARK CHAPEL
Location: AT INDIAN HILL ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. SOUTHWEST OF ORAN
FIRST SCHOOL
ERECTED IN TOWN OF POMPEY
1797 AND USED UNTIL 1810
HEPSABAH BEEBEE--TEACHER
CEMETERY ADJOINED SCHOOL
GROUNDS, LATER REMOVED
Location: ON NYS 91 AT POMPEY
FIRST STEAMBOAT
BUILT BY WM. AVERY 1 MILE
SOUTH OF ORAN. LAUNCHED
IN LIMESTONE CREEK NEAR
BUELLVILLE, 1823, LATER FIRST
STEAMBOAT USED ON ERIE CANAL
Location: ON NYS 92 & NYS 20 N ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTHWEST OF ORAN
FIRST TAVERN
1796-1808
BUILT AND KEPT BY JOB
BARTHOLOMEW. BURNED 1808.
ANOTHER BUILT ON SAME SITE
IN 1809 KEPT BY WM. SCOVILLE
Location: ON NYS 92 & NYS 20 N AT ORAN
HANDY'S TAVERN
1797 FIRST FRAME BUILDING
ERECTED BY E. BUTLER, JR.
AND RUN AS A TAVERN BY HIM.
THE ORIGINAL FRAME IS
STILL IN THE HOUSE.
Location: ON NYS 91 AT POMPEY
INDIAN HILL
WAS THE HOME OF THE ONONDAGA
INDIANS. LARGE POPULATION
LIVED HERE IN 1655.
Location: AT INDIAN HILL ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORAN
INDIAN WAR STONE
GRINDSTONE OF THE ONONDAGA
INDIANS. USED TO SHARPEN
ARROWS AND SPEARS AT INDIAN
HILL UNTIL 1666. MOVED TO
LEMOYNE PARK POMPEY, 1905.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT POMPEY
LOG HOUSE
ERECTED 1791 BY EBENEZER
BUTLER, JR. FIRST WHITE
SETTLER ON POMPEY HILL.
A REV. WAR SOLDIER,
MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY
Location: ON US 20 AT POMPEY
OLDEST FRAME HOUSE
IN TOWN OF POMPEY
BUILT BY EBENEZER
HANDY, 1806
Location: ON US 20 AT POMPEY
ORAN
SETTLED IN 1793 BY THE
BARNES BROTHERS, ASA
ROSEWLL, AND PHINEAS.
CAME HERE WITH THEIR
FAMILIES FROM MASSACHUESTTS.
Location: ON NYS 92 & NYS 20 N AT ORAN
PRATT'S FALLS
FIRST MILLS IN ONON. CO.
BUILT BY MANOAH PRATT, SR.
AND ABRAHAM SMITH IN 1796
FIRST A SAW MILL AND THEN
A FLOUR MILL IN 1798.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT PRATT'S FALLS PARK
ROMAN CATHOLIC
MISSION CHURCH
FIRST IN POMPEY WAS
LOCATED HERE, 1857-1866.
FATHER JAMES CAHILL,
FIRST PRIEST
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT POMPEY
SITE OF
POMPEY ACADEMY
1810-1834
ORIGINAL ACADEMY WAS 40 X 50
FEET FRAME BUILDINGS, TWO STORIES,
GABLE END FACING SOUTH.
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT POMPEY
SITE OF
LOG CITY
RIVAL OF POMPEY WITH A
STORE, ASERY, TANNERY,
SHOE AND CARPENTER SHOPS,
AND A SCHOOLHOUSE.
Location: ON NYS 91 ABOUT 1 1/4 MILES NORTH POMPEY
SITE OF
GREEN'S HOUSE
BUILT OF LOGS IN 1796 BY
DAVID GREEN. THE SETTLEMENT
WAS KNOWN FOR YEARS AS
GREEN'S CORNERS
Location: ON US 20 AT POMPEY CENTER
SITE OF
FIRST SCHOOL
BUILT HERE ABOUT 1800.
GEORGE CLARK, FIRST TEACHER
AND AFTERWARDS THE FIRST
MERCHANT IN ORAN
Location: ON CO. RD. AT ORAN

County: ONONDAGA
Town: SALINA, TOWN OF

SALT MAKING
MANUFACTURE OF SALT WAS
BEGUN HERE IN LIVERPOOL
BY JOHN DANFORTH, BROTHER
OF ASA DANFORTH, 1794
Location: ON NYS 57 & NYS 370 AT LIVERPOOL

County: ONONDAGA
Town: SKANEATELES, TOWN OF

SITE OF THE OLD
SHERWOOD INN
BUILT ABOUT 1800
Location: ON US 20 AT SKANEATELES

County: ONONDAGA
Town: SYRACUSE, CITY OF

GEDDES
TOWN NAMED FOR JAMES GEDDES
1763-1838, ENGINEER OF STATE
CANALS FOR N.Y. WAS FIRST
TO MAKE SALT HERE. SURVEYED
SITE OF SYRACUSE, 1804
Location: AT THE INTERSECTION OF NYS 48 AND HIAWATHA BLVD. AT SYRACUSE

County: ONONDAGA
Town: VAN BUREN, TOWN OF

ONONDAGA BRICK
THOMAS MARVIN, SOLDIER IN
WARS OF 1776 AND 1812,
SETTLED HERE 1811 (CAZENOVIA
1800). MADE FIRST BRICK HERE FROM
NATIVE CLAY TROD BY OXEN.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF WARNERS

County: ONTARIO
Town: BRISTOL, TOWN OF

BURNING SPRINGS
CHARTED ON EARLIEST MAPS
OF NORTH AMERICA AFTER
LA SALLE'S VISIT AUGUST 1669.
CAUSED BY ESCAPING NATURAL
GAS. ONCE MYSTERY TO VISITORS
Location: ON CASE RD. ABOUT 1 MI. NORTHWEST OF BRISTOL CENTER

County: ONTARIO
Town: CANANDAIGUA, TOWN OF

CANANDAIGUA ACADEMY
INCORPORATED 1795
FIRST ACADEMY ON
PHELPS & GORHAM TRACT
Location: ON NYS 332 BETWEEN FORT HILL AVE. & GRANGER ST.
GRANGER HOMESTEAD
HOME OF GIDEON GRANGER
POSTMASTER GEN. IN CABINETS
OF JEFFERSON & MADISON
RESIDENT HERE 1814-1822
Location: ON NYS 332 BETWEEN GRANGER & CHAPEL STS.
PHELPS-GORHAM PURCHASE
PIONEER LAND OFFICE IN
WESTERN N.Y. ESTAB. HERE
1789
HOME SITE OLIVER PHELPS
1ST JUDGE OF CO. 1789-93
Location: ON US 20, NYS 5 & NYS 21 BETWEEN NIAGARA & ONTARIO STS.
SITE OF
PIONEER HOME
CAPT. JASPER PARRISH
SETTLED HERE IN 1792
INDIAN CAPTIVE SIX YEARS
GOVT. INTERTERTER LATER
DIED IN 1826
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5 AT INTERSECTION S. MAIN & PARISH STS.
[ARROW]
8 MILES NORTH, ROUTE 21
CUMORAH
FAMOUS MORMON HILL
AND
ANGEL MORONI MONUMENT
Location: ON NYS 21 & NYS 332 AT INTERSECTION N. MAIN ST. & GIBSON ST.

County: ONTARIO
Town: FARMINGTON, TOWN OF

HERENDEEN HOMESTEAD
BUILT BY JAMES HERENDEEN
1832. ENTRANCE PORCH ADDED BY
JOSEPHINE HERENDEEN
1932
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF FARMINGTON

County: ONTARIO
Town: GENEVA, CITY OF

GANECHSTAGE
SITE OF SENECA VILLAGE
AND JESUIT MISSION
FOR THE INDIANS
ESTABLISHED 1687
Location: ON WHITE SPRING RD. AT THE WEST LIMITS OF CITY.
PREEMPTION LINE
BOUNDARY DRAWN BETWEEN
MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW YORK
DECEMBER 16, 1786
CAUSE OF LONG CONTROVERSY
IN WESTERN NEW YORK
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5 AT WESTERN EDGE OF THE CITY
SITE OF
GENEVA HOTEL
ERECTED 1796
BY
CAPT. CHARLES WILLIAMSON
Location: ON WASHINGTON ST. BETWEEN PULTENEY & MAIN STS.
SITE OF GENEVA
MEDICAL COLLEGE
ELIZ. BLACKWELL RECEIVED
HERE IN 1849 THE FIRST
DEGREE OF MD EVER
CONFERRED UPON A WOMAN
Location: ON US 20, NYS 5 & NYS 14 BETWEEN WASHINGTON & HAMILTON STS.
SITE OF LOG HOUSE
ERECTED 1787 LATER
KNOWN AS
ELARK JENNINGS TAVERN
Location: ON S. EXCHANGE ST. SOUTH OF WASHINGTON ST.
SMITH OBSERVATORY
WORLD FAMOUS FOR THE
DISCOVERIES OF DIRECTOR
DR. WILLIAM R. BROOKS
Location: ON CASTLE ST. BETWEEN HILLCREST & HIGHLAND AVES.
TORY QUARTERS
SITE OF MILITARY DEPOT
UNDER COMMAND OF
COL. JOHN BUTLER
DESTROYED SEPT. 1779 IN
SULLIVAN EXPEDITION
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5 ALONG SENECA LAKE

County: ONTARIO
Town: GENEVA, TOWN OF

GLASS FACTORY
BAY
1810 - 1850
ONTARIO GLASS MANUFACTORY
BLOWERS OF WINDOW GLASS
VILLAGE OF 500 INHABITANTS
Location: ON RTE. 14 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES S. OF GENEVA
SITE OF KANADESAGA
CHIEF CASTLE OF
THE SENECA NATION
DESTROYED SEPT. 7, 1779
IN GEN. JOHN SULLIVAN'S
RAID
Location: ON CO. RD. TO SENECA CASTLE ABOUT 1/4 MILE WEST OF GENEVA

County: ONTARIO
Town: GORHAM, TOWN OF

MARCUS WHITMAN
PIONEER MISSIONARY PATRIOT
COLONIZER IN OREGON TER.
BORN HERE SEPT. 4, 1802
Location: ON NYS 245 AT RUSHVILLE

County: ONTARIO
Town: MANCHESTER, TOWN OF

HILL CUMORAH
THE MORMONS BELIEVE THAT
HERE IN 1827 JOSEPH SMITH
RECEIVED THE BOOK OF MORMON
Location: ON NYS 21 ABOUT 2 MILES N. OF MANCHESTER
[ARROW]
2 MILES NORTH
CUMORAH
FAMOUS MORMON HILL
AND
ANGEL MORONI MONUMENT
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 21 & NYS 96 AT MANCHESTER

County: ONTARIO
Town: NAPLES, TOWN OF

FIRST CHURCH
ON THIS SITE WAS ORGANIZED
THE "FIRST RELIGIOUS COMPACT
OF MIDDLETOWN 1800" THE
CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1824
Location: IN VILLAGE PARK IN NAPLES
FOSSIL TREE
ONE MILE WEST OF THIS SPOT
WAS DISCOVERED THE FOSSIL
DEVONIAN TREE TRUNK IN THE
BED OF GRIMES CREEK. IT IS
NOW IN THE STATE MUSEUM
Location: ON NYS 21 & NYS 245 AT NAPLES
NAPLES
FOUNDED 1789 ON THE OLD
SENECA VILLAGE OF NUNDAWAO;
FIRST KNOWN AS WATKINSTOWN;
IN 1796 CALLED MIDDLETOWN;
ON APRIL 6, 1808, NAMED NAPLES
Location: ON NYS 21 & NYS 245 AT NAPLES
NAPLES
KNOWN AS WATKINSTOWN 1789;
NAMED MIDDLETOWN 1796,
MIDWAY BETWEEN CANANDAIGUA
AND BATH; NAPLES APRIL 6, 1808
Location: ON NYS 21 & NYS 245 AT NAPLES

County: ONTARIO
Town: RICHMOND, TOWN OF

MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON US 20A ABOUT 1/2 MILE E. OF HONEOYE
NEARBY IS THE SITE OF
PIONEER HOME
CAPT. PETER PITTS
FIRST SETTLER IN TOWN
OF RICHMOND
Location: ON US 20A ABOUT 1/2 MILE E. OF HONEOYE
OLD REED
HOMESTEAD
FRIST BRICK HOUSE
IN TOWN OF RICHMOND
BUILT 1803 BY
PHILIP REED
Location: ON REED RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF RICHMOND MILLS
PITTS MANSION
BUILT 1821 BY
GIDEON PITTS
SON OF CAPT. PETER PITTS
PIONEER SETTLER IN 1789
Location: ON US 10A AT HONEOYE

County: ONTARIO
Town: VICTOR, TOWN OF

EZRA WILMARTH
OPENED STAGECOACH INN HERE
DEC. 25, 1815. ORIGINAL
INN SIGN HAD MASONIC EMBLEM.
SOLDIERS OF WAR OF 1812
GATHERED ON THIS SITE
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF VICTOR
FISHER HOMESTEAD
OLDEST HOUSE HERE, BUILT
BY CHAS. FISHER, 1811. FISHERS
NAMED FOR HIM. POST OFFICE
1850. HOME OF HENRY PARDEE,
ASSEMBLYMAN 1840.
Location: ON CO. RD. AT FISHERS
PARK PLACE
BUILT BY SIMEON PARKS
APRIL 1813, WHO CLEARED
A LARGE TRACT OF LAND.
FAMOUS PLANK ROAD WENT
BY HERE
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 1/4 MILES EAST OF FISHERS
SENECA TRAIL
TRAVERSED BY FRENCH ARMY
OF DENONVILLE, 1687. HERE
WERE SENECA LODGES WHERE
FRIENDLY INDIAN FOLLOWERS
OF TRAIL WERE WELCOMED
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF VICTOR

County: ORANGE
Town: BLOOMING GROVE, TOWN OF

PINE HILL FARM
HECTOR ST. JOHN DE
CREVECOEUR, 1735-1813.
SETTLED HERE 1769 AND HERE
WROTE "LETTERS FROM AN
AMERICAN FARMER" (LONDON 1782)
Location: ON NYS 45 ABOUT 1/2 MI. N.E. OF CRAIGSVILLE
SITE OF
CROMLINE HOUSE
BUILT BY DANIEL CROMLINE,
IN 1716, NAMED GREYCOURT INN.
PRIOR TO 1765 WAS MAIN HOUSE
BETWEEN NEW WINDSOR AND
Location: ON NYS 94 ABOUT 1 MI. N.E. OF CRAIGSVILLE

County: ORANGE
Town: CHESTER, TOWN OF

CHESTER MILITIA
ORGANIZED IN 1775 AS
CAPT. JOHN JACKSON'S CO.
IN COL. WILLIAM ALLISON'S
GOSHEN REGT. SERVED AT
RIVER FORTS AND MINISINK
Location: ON NYS 94 AT CHESTER
OTTERKILL
ON THIS STREAM THE FIRST
GRIST MILL WAS OPERATED
BEFORE 1785, OWNED BY
JONAS DENTON AND RUN
BY HIS SON, THOMAS DENTON
Location: ON NYS 17M AT CHESTER
REVOLUTIONARY
MILITIA
OF ORANGE AND ULSTER
WERE ASSEMBLED HERE, DEC., 1776.
COL. WOODHULL CAMPED HERE, 1777.
DEC., 1778, MILITIA MET TO
MARCH TO MINISINK
Location: ON NYS 94 AT CHESTER
SITE OF
FIRST POST OFFICE
IN CHESTER WAS LOCATED
IN A SMALL BUILDING HERE
IN 1794. JAMES WICKHAM,
POSTMASTER
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 17 A & NYS 94 AT CHESTER
WAWAYANDA PATENT
COVERING ABOUT HALF OF
PRESENT ORANGE COUNTY WAS
GRANTED BY GOV. CORNBURY
MAR. 5, 1703 TO JOHN BRIDGES
AND ELEVEN ASSOCIATES
Location: ON US 6 & NYS 17 ABOUT 1/2 MI. EAST OF CHESTER

County: ORANGE
Town: CORNWALL, TOWN OF

WASHINGTON'S ARMY
NEW YORK, NEW HAMPSHIRE
AND NEW JERSEY TROOPS
WERE QUARTERED 2500 FEET N.E.
IN HUTS ON WEST BANK OF
SILVER STREAM 1782-83
Location: ON N. SIDE NYS 94 AT RILEY RD.INSTRSCTN. 1 MI. W. VAILS GATE

County: ORANGE
Town: CRAWFORD, TOWN OF

ORANGE COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF PROVINCE OF NEW YORK,
ESTABLISHED 1683, BY GOV.
THOMAS DONGAN, NAMED FOR
WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Location: ON NYS 52 AT ULSTER-ORANGE COUNTY LINE

County: ORANGE
Town: DEERPARK, TOWN OF

BOLTON BASIN
A PORT ON THE OLD D. & H.
CANAL, 1828-1898, NAMED
FOR JOHN BOLTON, FOUTH
PRESIDENT, D. & H. CANAL
COMPANY
Location: ON NYS 97 AT OLD BOLTON
CAMP SITE
SECOND N. Y. REGIMENT, ON
WAY TO STROUDSBURG MAY 7,
1779 TO BUILD ROAD TO
WYOMING FOR SULLIVAN'S
MARCH AGAINST INDIANS
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT JERVIS
CUDDEBACK
HOMESTEAD BUILT IN 1755
BY JACOBUS CUDDEBACK
HUGUENOT REFUGEE FROM
FRANCE WHO SETTLED IN
THIS VICINITY ABOUT 1698
Location: ON US 209 SOUTH OF GODEFFROY
CUDDEBACKVILLE
NAMED FOR
WILLIAM A. CUDDEBACK,
COLONEL IN WAR OF 1812,
ESTABLISHED 1826 ON
DELAWARE AND HUDSON CANAL
Location: ON US 209 AT VLGE. CUDDEBACKVILLE
D. & H. CANAL
CROSSED THE NEVERSINK
RIVER HERE IN A WOODEN
AQUEDUCT, ABUTMENTS
SHOWING SIZE OF CHANNEL
100 YARDS ABOVE BRIDGE
Location: ON US 209 HALFWAY BETWEEN HUGUENOT & PORT JERVIS
D. AND H. CANAL
OPENED 1828-1898,
FROM HONESDALE, PA. TO
KINGSTON. CARRIED BULK OF
NEW YORK CITY'S COAL UNTIL
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
Location: ON US 209 AT CUDDEBACKVILLE
D. AND H. CANAL
CROSSED THE MONGAUP RIVER
HERE IN A WOODEN AQUEDUCT.
CARRIED BULK OF NEW YORK
CITY'S COAL, VIA KINGSTON,
UNTIL AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
Location: ON NYS 97 AT ORANGE-SULLIVAN COUNTY LINE
D. AND H. CANAL
OPENED 1828, CLOSED 1898,
FROM HONESDALE, PA. TO
KINGSTON. CARRIED BULK OF
NEW YORK CITY'S COAL UNTIL
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
Location: ON US 209 AT SULLIVAN-ORANGE COUNTY LINE
D. AND H. CANAL
A SLUICE FROM THE MONGAUP
RIVER CROSSED HERE TO
FILL CANAL. REMAINS OF
STONEWORK MAY BE SEEN
ABOVE BRIDGE
Location: ON NYS 97 AT ORANGE-SULLIVAN COUNTY LINE
DECKER FORT
MAJOR DECKER'S STOCKADED
HOUSE ON THIS SITE BURNED
BY BRANT'S RAIDERS, JULY
20, 1779. MILITIA PURSUING
BRANT RALLIED HERE
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT JERVIS
DECKER'S TAVERN
HERE MODELINE, THE INDIAN
WHO SCALPED TOM QUICK, SR.
REENACTED THE OLD MAN'S
DEATH AGONY. HE WAS SHOT
FOR IT BY TOM QUICK, JR.
Location: ON US 209 ABOUT 3/4 MI. NORTHEAST OF PORT JERVIS
FIRST SETTLER
ABOUT 1690 WILLIAM TIETSOORT
SET UP A BLACKSMITH SHOP
HERE AT REQUEST OF INDIANS
WHO GAVE HIM THIS LAND
WEST OF THEIR VILLAGE
Location: ON US 209 ABOUT 1/2 MI. N. PORT JERVIS
FORT GUMAER
BUILT IN FRENCH AND INDIAN
WAR, 1755-1763, ON KNOLL
ACROSS FLATS. SHELTERED
105 SETTLERS DURING TORY
AND INDIAN RAIDS, 1778-9
Location: ON US 209 BETWEEN HUGUENOT AND GODEFFROY
INDIAN RAID
ROUTE BY WHICH COL. BRANT
AND HIS MOHAWK AND TORY
RAIDERS DESCENDED ON THIS
VALLEY OCTOBER 13, 1778
AND JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON CAHOONZIE RD. BETWEEN US 209 & NEVERSINK DRIVE
INDIAN RAID
ROUTE BY WHICH COL. BRANT
AND HIS MOHAWK AND TORY
RAIDERS DESCENDED ON THIS
VALLEY OCTOBER 13, 1778
AND JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON US 209 SO. OF HUGUENOT
INDIAN RAID
ROUTE TAKEN BY N.Y. AND
N. J. MILITIA IN PURSUIT
OF COL. BRANT FOR RAID
ON MINISINK (PORT JERVIS)
JULY 21, 1779
Location: ON US 209 ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF CUDDEBACKVILLE
INDIAN RAID
HOME OF SOLOMON KUIYKEN DALL,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
1771-1787
BURNED BY BRANT'S MOHAWKS
AND TORIES, JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. EAST OF PORT JERVIS
INDIAN RAID
ROUTE BY WHICH CO. BRANT
AND HIS MOHAWK AND TORY
RAIDERS DESCENDED ON THIS
VALLEY OCTOBER 13, 1778
AND JULY 20, 1779
Location: JUST OFF US 209 WHERE CAHOONZIE RD. FORKS
INDIAN RAID
HOUSE AND BARN OF JACOBUS
VAN FLEET ON THIS SITE
BURNED BY BRANT'S RAIDERS,
JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF PORT JERVIS
INDIAN RAID
ROUTE TAKEN BY COL. BRANT
WITH CAPTIVES AND CATTLE
TAKEN IN THE SACK OF
MINISINK (PORT JERVIS)
JULY 20, 1779
Location: AT INTRSCTN. NYS 97 & 42
INDIAN RAID
HOME OF PHILIP SWARTOUT
CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE OF
SAFETY, 1777. HE AND TWO
SONS WERE SACALPED HERE IN
BRANT'S RAID, OCT. 15, 1778
Location: ON US 209 AT HUGUENOT
INDIAN RAID
GRIST MILL ON THIS STREAM
BUILT BY SOLOMON DAVIS
ABOUT 1730, WAS BURNED IN
BRANT'S RAID, JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF PORT JERVIS
INDIAN RAID
SCHOOL HERE WAS BURNED BY
RAIDERS, JULY 20, 1779.
TEACHER SCALPED: BOYS
MADE PRISONERS: GIRLS SAVED
BY BRANT'S MARK ON APRONS
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF PORT JERVIS
INDIAN RAID
ANTHONY VAN ETTEN BUILT A.
SMITHY HERE ABOUT 1750.
JAMES SWARTOUT HID IN
FLUE DURING RAID OF 1779,
THUS KEEPING HIS SCALP.
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT JERVIS
INDIAN VILLAGE
ON THE PLATEAU TO THE WEST
STOOD THE INDIAN VILLAGE
OQUEKUMSEY
ABANDONED 1730, EXCAVATED
BY N. Y. STATE MUSEUM, 1909
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF PORT JERVIS
KAATSBAAN
(DUTCH FOR TENNIS COURT)
SITE OF INDIAN FOOTBALL
FIELD IN BEND OF RIVER
HOME OF WILLIAM TIETSOORT,
1690-1713
Location: ON US 209 AT N. END PORT JERVIS
N. J. CLAIM LINE
STATE LINE AS CLAIMED BY
NEW JERSEY, 1686-1769,
7 MILES NORTH OF PRESENT
LINE AT PORT JERVIS, N. Y.
CAUSED 50 YEAR BORDER WAR
Location: ON US 209 HALFWAY BETWEEN HUGUENOT & PORT JERVIS
N. J. LINE WAR
MAJOR JACOBUS SWARTOUT,
LEADER OF N. Y. FACTION,
SETTLED HERE ABOUT 1741
AND WAS LATER KIDNAPPED
BY JERSEY MEN
Location: ON US 209 AT HUGUENOT
N. J. LINE WAR
CAPT. JOHANNES WESTBROOK
ON N. Y. FACTION, SETTLED
HERE ON LAND CLAIMED BY
N. J., ABOUT 1740. WAS LATER
KIDNAPPED BY JERSEY FACTION 1754
Location: ON US 209 ABOUT 3/4 MI. N. E. PT. JERVIS
N. J. LINE WAR
HENRICK DECKER AND HIS
BROTHER, JAN SETTLED HERE
ABOUT 1698. HEADQUARTERS
OF N. J. LINE COMMISSIONERS
AND SURVEYORS, 1719
Location: ON US 209 AT N. END PORT JERVIS
N. J. LINE WAR
LAND OF WESTFALL & CO.
WAS SETTLED ON JERSEY CLAIM
1698. ATTACKED BY ARMED
NEW YORKERS FROM GOSHEN
AND PEENPACK, 1701-1759
Location: ON US 209 SO. OF GODEFFROY
N. J. LINE WAR
LAND OF WESTFALL & CO.
WAS SETTLED ON JERSEY CLAIM
1698. ATTACKED BY ARMED
NEW YORKERS FROM GOSHEN
AND PEENPACK, 1701-1759
Location: ON US 209 HALFWAY BETWEEN HUGUENOT & PORT JERVIS
NEVERSINK DRIVE
(HORN ROAD)
ALONG THIS OLD ROAD ARE
SCENES OF EVENTS IN THE
RAID BY THE MOHAWK CHIEF,
JOSEPH BRANT, JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. E. OF PORT JERVIS
OLD MINE ROAD
OLDEST 100-MILE ROAD IN
AMERICA. BUILT BY DUTCH
MINERS BEFORE 1664 FROM
KINGSTON TO COPPER MINES
NEAR DELAWARE WATER GAP
Location: ON CAHOONZIE RD. BETWEEN US 209 & NEVERSINK DRIVE
OLD MINE ROAD
OLDEST 100-MILE ROAD IN
AMERICA. BUILT BY DUTCH
MINERS BEFORE 1664 FROM
KINGSTON TO COPPER MINES
NEAR DELAWARE WATER GAP
Location: ON US 6 WHERE RD. TURNS OFF AT TRI STATES
OLD TURNPIKE
BUILT 1809, CONNECTING
MINISINK (PORT JERVIS)
WITH NEWBURGH, VIA
MIDDLETOWN AND MONTGOMERY
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. NORTHEAST OF PORT JERVIS
ORANGE COUNTY
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF PROVINCE OF NEW YORK
ESTABLISHED 1683, BY GOV.
THOMAS DONGAN, NAMED FOR
WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Location: ON RIVER RD. AT NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY LINE SO. PORT JERVIS
ORANGE COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF PROVINCE OF NEW YORK,
ESTABLISHED 1683, BY GOV.
THOMAS DONGAN, NAMED FOR
WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Location: ON US 209 AT SULLIVAN-ORANGE COUNTY LINE
ORANGE COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF PROVINCE OF NEW YORK,
ESTABLISHED 1683, BY GOV.
THOMAS DONGAN, NAMED FOR
WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Location: ON NYS 97 AT SULLIVAN-ORANGE COUNTY LINE
PENHORN'S LAND
783 ACRES OF FERTILE
LOWLAND OCCUPIED BY CHIEF
PENHORN AND HIS TRIBE.
SOLD BY THEM IN 1730 TO
DAVIS, COLE AND VAN AUKEN
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF PORT JERVIS
RESIDENCE SITE
CAPT. ABRAHAM WESTFALL
WOUNDED IN BATTLE OF
BUNKER HILL, FOUGHT AT
TRENTON, BRANDYWINE,
BLOODY RUN AND STONY POINT
Location: ON US 209 SOUTH OF HUGUENOT
SITE OF
PEENPACK SCHOOL
BUILT ABOUT 1765. FIRST
SCHOOLMASTER, THOMAS KYTE, MEMBER
COMMITTEE OF SAFETY, 1776
Location: ON US 209 SO. OF GODEFFROY
SITE OF HOME
HARMANUS VAN INWEGEN
MEMBER OF COMMITTEE OF
SAFETY. GERARDUS, HIS
SON, WAS KILLED AT FORT
MONTGOMERY, OCT.6, 1777
Location: ON US 209 NORTH OF HUGUENOT
SLAVES
OLD BURIAL GROUND FOR
SLAVES OWNED BY FAMILIES
IN THIS VICINITY IS
LOCATED ON THE HILL ABOVE
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT JERVIS
WILAHOOSA CAVE
MAJOR JOHANNES DECKER
WOUNDED BY INDIANS OF
BRANT'S RAIDING PARTY,
ESCAPED BY HIDING IN THE
CAVE ABOVE JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF PORT JERVIS
[ARROW]
FORT VAN AUKEN
WHICH STOOD HERE DURING
REVOLUTION, UNSUCCESSFULLY
ATTACKED BY MOHAWKS AND
TORIES, LED BY JOSEPH
BRANT, JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF PORT JERVIS

County: ORANGE
Town: GOSHEN, TOWN OF

HISTORIC TRACK
"CRADLE OF THE TROTTER"
MADE FAMOUS BY
HAMBLETONIAN (1849-1876)
SIRE OF TROTTERS
Location: E. SIDE OF PARK PL. NEAR ENTRANCE TO HISTORIC TRACK

County: ORANGE
Town: HAMPTONBURGH, TOWN OF

1ST BUTTER FACTORY
IN U.S. - 1856
BUILT HERE IN CAMPBELL HALL
200 FT. EAST OF THIS MARKER
F. W. WOODHULL, OWNER
GEORGE GOUGH, BUTTERMAKER

County: ORANGE
Town: HIGHLAND, TOWN OF

BUTTERMILK FALLS
AT THE FOOT OF THIS LANE
AT BUTTERMILK FALLS, WAS
THE HEADQUARTERS OF GEN.
ISRAEL PUTNAM, COMMANDER
IN THE HIGHLANDS, 1779
Location: ON OLD 9W IN VLGE. OF HIGHLAND FALLS
CAPTAIN MOLLY
MARGARET CORBIN, HEROINE
OF THE BATTLE OF FORT
WASHINGTON, PASSED HER LAST
DAYS ON THE FORMER MORGAN
ESTATE, NEAR HERE
Location: ON OLD 9W AT VLGE. OF HIGHLAND FALLS
FOREST OF DEAN
IRON MINE, OPENED BEFORE
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR; NOW
A MILE DEEP; SUPPLIED ORE
FOR THE QUEENSBORO
FURNACE BEFORE 1777
Location: ON NYS 293 ABOUT 5 MIS. N.E. OF CENTRAL VALLEY
FORT MONTGOMERY
LAST STAND OF AMERICAN
MILITIA, IN THE DEFENSE OF
FORTS CLINTON & MONTGOMERY
AGAINIST THE BRITISH
OCTOBER 7, 1777
Location: ON US 9W JUST N. OF BEAR MT. BRIDGE TRAFFIC CIRCLE
HUDSON GORGE
THIS NARROW PART OF THE
RIVER WAS FORTIFIED BY THE
AMERICANS IN THE REVOLUTION
WITH FORTS MONTGOMERY AND
CLINTON AND AN IRON CHAIN
Location: ON PERKINS MEMORIAL DR. AT BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
JOHN BURROUGHS
APRIL 3, 1837-MARCH 29, 1921
AS A YOUNG MAN, THE POET-
NATURALIST TAUGHT SCHOOL NEAR
THIS SPOT. HERE HE WROTE
HIS POEM "WAITING"
Location: ON OLD 9W AT VLGE. OF HIGHLAND FALLS
ORANGE COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF PROVINCE OF NEW YORK
ESTABLISHED 1683, BY GOV.
THOMAS DONGAN, NAMED FOR
WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Location: ON US 9W AT BEAR MT. TRAFFIC CIRCLE
REDOUBTS
NUMBERS 1 AND 2
ON HILLS ABOVE ARE REDOUBTS
BUILT 1778-9, AS SOUTHERN
DEFENSES OF AMERICAN
STRONGHOLD AT WEST POINT
Location: JUST OF US 9W AT WEST END OF HIGHLAND FALLS
ROAD TO SMITH'S CLOVE
DURING THE REVOLUTION WAS
USED BY TROOPS FROM THE
CAMP IN SMITH'S CLOVE
(NOW WOODBURY) TO FOREST
OF DEAN AND WEST POINT
Location: ON NYS 293 ABOUT 5 MIS. N.E. OF CENTRAL VALLEY
STONY LONESOME
THIS ROCKY VALLEY, NAMED
DURING THE REVOLUTION, WAS
A PASS TO THE WESTERN
DEFENSES OF WEST POINT
AND WAS STRONGLY GUARDED
Location: ON OLD 9W AT SOUTH END OF VLG. OF HIGHLAND FALLS
WASHINGTON VALLEY
AT THE FOOT OF THIS VALLEY
ON THE BANK OF THE HUDSON
WAS THE MOORE HOUSE, USED
AS HEADQUARTERS IN 1779 BY
WASHINGTON WHEN AT WEST POINT
Location: ON NYS 218 AT NORTHERN EDGE OF WEST POINT RESERVATION
[ARROW]
THE TIMP
THE CLIFF ON THE WEST END
OF DUNDERBERG, SHOWING A
PROFILE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON,
WAS NAMED FOR A DUTCH WORD,
"TIMPJE", MEANING "CAKE"
Location: ON PERKINS MEMORIAL DR. AT BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
[ARROW]
POPOLOPEN GORGE
THE LEFT WING OF BRITISH
FORCE ASSAULTING FORTS
CLINTON AND MONTGOMERY
MARCHED THROUGH THIS
VALLEY OCTOBER 7, 1777
Location: ON PERKINS MEMORIAL DR. AT BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
[ARROW]
FORT CLINTON
BELOW IS FORT CLINTON
AND NORTH OF POPOLOPEN
CREEK FORT MONTGOMERY, BUILT
TO DEFEND HUDSON, AND STORMED
BY BRITISH OCTOBER 7, 1777
Location: AT INTRSCTN. US 6 & US 9W AT BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
[ARROW]
ANTHONY'S NOSE
THE STEEP HILL OPPOSITE
WAS SO CALLED, WASHINGTON
IRVING SAID, FOR THE BIG
NOSE OF ANTHONY VAN CORLAER,
DUTCH SLOOP SKIPPER
Location: ON PERKINS MEMORIAL DR. AT BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
[ARROW]
HESSIAN LAKE
SO CALLED BECAUSE OF REPORT
THAT BODIES OF HESSIANS IN
BRITISH ARMY ATTACKING FORT
CLINTON, OCTOBER 7, 1777,
WERE THROWN IN ITS WATERS
Location: ON PERKINS MEMORIAL DR. AT BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
[ARROW]
DOODLETOWN
THE VALLEY SOUTH WAS NAMED,
ACCORDING TO LOCAL LEGEND,
BECAUSE THE BRITISH PLAYED
"YANKEE DOODLE" MARCHING
THROUGH IT OCT. 7, 1777
Location: ON PERKINS MEMORIAL DR. AT BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
[ARROW]
DUNDERBERG
"THUNDER MOUNTAIN" OF EARLY
DUTCH SKIPPERS, LEGENDARY
HOME OF DWERG, WHO SMOTE
THEM WITH THUNDERSTORMS
UNLESS THEY SALUTED HIM
Location: ON PERKINS MEMORIAL DR. AT BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
[ARROW]
IRON FURNACE
ALONG POPOLOPEN CREEK, TO
THE WEST, STANDS QUEENSBORO
FURNACE, BUILT ABOUT 1770,
DISMANTLED BY BRITISH ARMY,
OCTOBER 7, 1777
Location: ON PERKINS MEMORIAL DR. IN BEAR MOUNTAIN STATE PARK

County: ORANGE
Town: MINISINK, TOWN OF

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, WESTTOWN, N.Y.
ORGANIZED MAR. 10, 1803.
CHURCH ERECTED 1806, OPENED
NOV. 30, 1807, REBUILT 1838
REV. THOMAS GRIER FIRST PASTOR
Location: ON NYS 84 AT WESTTOWN
KIMBER FORT
AND MILL. GEORGE KIMBER, WIFE
SARAH WESTFALL BOUGHT LAND
1759. EARLY NEIGHBORS JAMES
CLARK AND WIFE SARAH VAN
AUKEN LIVED MILE WEST
Location: ON NYS 84 AT UNIONVILLE
MASONIC LODGE
SITE OF LODGE ROOM, "OLIVE
BRANCH" LODGE, CONSTITUTED
1803. MEETINGS HELD HERE
IN 1811. LAST MEETING
DEC. 3, 1822.
Location: ON NYS 84 AT WESTTOWN
ORANGE COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF PROVINCE OF NEW YORK,
ESTABLISHED 1683, BY GOV.
THOMAS DONGAN, NAMED FOR
WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Location: ON NYS 84 AT NEW JERSEY-NEW YORK STATE LINE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
IN UNIONVILLE, N. Y. FIRST
ORGANIZED BY REV. THOMAS
GREIR MAR. 20, 1803. CHURCH
BUILT 1825 REMODELED AND
ENLARGED AFTER 1850
Location: ON NYS 84 AT UNIONVILLE

County: ORANGE
Town: MONROE, TOWN OF

IRON MINE OPENED BEFORE
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR; NOW
A MILE DEEP, SUPPLIED ORE
FOR THE QUEENSBORO
FURNACE BEFORE 1777
ROAD TO SMITH'S CLOVE
DURING THE REVOLUTION THIS
ROAD WAS USED BY TROOPS
FROM THE CAMP IN SMITH'S
CLOVE (NOW WOODBURY) TO
FOREST OF DEAN AND WEST POINT

County: ORANGE
Town: MONTGOMERY, TOWN OF

HOME OF
JOHN NICHOLSON
1743-1811
WHO HELD MANY PUBLIC OFFICES
AND SERVED AS A COLONEL IN
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 208 AT MAYBROOK

County: ORANGE
Town: NEW WINDSOR, TOWN OF

BREWSTER HOUSE
BUILT 1768, BY DEACON SAMUEL
BREWSTER, FOR HIS SON TIMOTHY.
QUARTERS OF CHAPLAIN JOEL
BARLOW OF AMERICAN ARMY
CAMPED NEAR, 1782-83
Location: ON TEMPLE HILL RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. NORTH OF VAILS GATE
CAMPS OF 1782-83
NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
WERE OCCUPIED BY TROOPS
UNDER WASHINGTON, WAITING
FOR THE END OF THE WAR
OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 32 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF NEWBURGH
CAMPS OF 1782-83
NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
WERE OCCUPIED BY TROOPS
UNDER WASHINGTON, WAITING
FOR THE END OF THE WAR
OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON TEMPLE HILL RD. ABOUT 1 MI. NORTH OF VAILS GATE
CAMPS OF 1782-83
NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
WERE OCCUPIED BY TROOPS
UNDER WASHINGTON, WAITING
FOR THE END OF THE WAR
OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON TEMPLE HILL RD., ABOUT 2 MIS. NORTH OF VAILS GATE
CLINTON FARM
GOVERNOR GEROGE CLINTON,
COMMANDER OF MILITIA IN
NEW YORK IN REVOLUTION
OWNED A FARM HERE
ABOUT 1770-1780
Location: ON SO WATER ST. SBOUT 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF NEWBURGH
EDMONSTON HOUSE
BUILT 1735. USED WHEN
ARMY CAMPED TO NORTH,
1782-83, BY GENERALS
ST. CLAIR AND GATES AND
AS MEDICAL HEADQUARTERS
Location: ON NYS 94 ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF VAILS GATE
FALLS HOUSE SITE
HERE, OCT. 1777, GEN. GEORGE
CLINTON RALLIED TROOPS AFTER
FALL OF FORTS CLINTON AND
MONTGOMERY, TO DEFEND
HUDSON VALLEY FROM BRITISH
Location: ON NYS 207 ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES EAST OF LITTLE BRITAIN
FORGE HILL ROAD
NAMED FOR BREWSTER FORGE
OF REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.
SOLDIERS, MARCHING TO
NEW WINDSOR CAMP, 1782
PASSED OVER THIS ROAD
Location: ON US 9W ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. SO. OF NEWBURGH
HIGBY HOUSE
HOME OF DR. MOSES HIGBY, WHO
REMOVED FROM DANIEL TAYLOR,
BRITISH SPY, A SILVER BULLET
WITH MESSAGE FROM SIR
HENRY CLINTON TO BURGOYNE
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF UNION & CEDAR STS. AT NEW WINDSOR
MURDERER'S CREEK
OLD NAME OF STREAM, GIVEN
BECAUSE OF SLAYING OF A
SETTLER NAMED STACY AND
HIS FAMILY, BY INDIANS IN
THE UPRISING OF 1650
Location: ON US 9W ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. SO. OF NEWBURGH
TEMPLE HILL
AT THE MONUMENT, IN 1782-83
STOOD THE TEMPLE, A LARGE
WOODEN BUILDING ERECTED BY
SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN
ARMY, FOR PUBLIC MEETINGS
Location: AT TEMPLE HILL MONUMENT ABOUT 2 MIS. N. VAILS GATE
TEMPLE HILL
IN THE BUILDING THAT STOOD
HERE, IN 1783, WASHINGTON BY
A STRRING APPEAL, PREVENTED
MUTINY BY THE TROOPS, OVER
HARDSHIPS AND LACK OF PAY
Location: AT TEMPLE HILL MONUMENT ABOUT 2 MIS. N. VAILS GATE
[ARROW]
TEMPLE HILL
TWO MILES NORTH, MEETING
PLACE OF AMERICAN ARMY, 1782-
83, WHERE WASHINGTON, BY A
FERVENT ADDRESS, AVERTED A
MUTINY DUE TO DISCONTENT
Location: ON NYS 32 AT VAILS GATE
[ARROW]
AMERICAN CAMPS
HERE IN 1782-83 WERE THE
HUTS OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS BRIGADE
OF WASHINGTON'S ARMY,
AWAITING PEACE WITH ENGLAND
Location: ON NYS 94 AT VAILS GATE
[ARROW]
MACHIN'S BATTERY
OF TWELVE GUNS, WAS PLACED
ON THE SOUTH END OF PLUM
POINT, TO SUPPORT THE
CHEVEAUX-DE-FRIZE TO
POLOPEL'S ISLAND, 1777
Location: ON US 9W ABOUT 2 MIS. SOUTH OF NEWBURGH
[ARROW]
3/4 MILE WEST
BREWSTER'S FORGE
WHERE PART OF IRON CHAIN
WAS FORGED WHICH STRECHED
ACROSS HUDSON RIVER AT WEST
POINT, DURING REVOLUTION
Location: ON US 9W & FORGE HILL RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. SO. NEWBURGH

County: ORANGE
Town: NEW WINSOR, TOWN OF

OLD BURIAL GROUND
HEADQUARTERS TRACT
VETERANS
MEMORIAL GROVE
ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON'S ARMY
NEW YORK, NEW HAMPSHIRE
AND NEW JERSEY TROOPS
QUARTERED 2500 FEET N.E.
IN HUTS ON WEST BANK OF
SILVER STREAM 1782-83
WASHINGTON'S ARMY
NEW YORK, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND NEW JERSEY
TROOPS WERE QUARTERED IN HUTS 2000
FEET N.E. ALONG SILVER STREAM
1782-83

County: ORANGE
Town: NEWBURGH, TOWN OF

NEWBURGH
SETTLED 1709, BY EXILES FROM
RHINE PALATINATE, OUSTED BY
FRENCH, GRANTED LAND HERE
BY QUEEN ANNE; LED BY PASTOR,
JOSHUA DE KOCKERTHAL
Location: ON NYS 32 AT W. END NEWBURGH
NEWBURGH
SETTLED 1709, BY EXILES FROM
RHINE PALATINATE, OUSTED BY
FRENCH, GRANTED LAND HERE
BY QUEEN ANNE; LED BY PASTOR,
JOSHUA DE KOCKERTHAL
Location: ON US 9W AT SO. END CITY
ORANGE COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF PROVINCE OF NEW YORK
ESTABLISHED 1683, BY GOV.
THOMAS DONGAN, NAMED FOR
WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Location: ON US 9W AT ULSTER-ORANGE COUNTY LINE

County: ORANGE
Town: PORT JERVIS, CITY OF

COLE'S FORT
BUILT 1755, IN FRENCH AND
INDIAN WAR, BY NEW JERSEY
WHICH CLAIMED THIS SECTION.
HOME OF WILHELMUS COLE, WHO
SETTLED HERE ABOUT 1730
Location: AT INTERSECTION E. MAIN ST. & JERSEY AVE.
DECKER FORT
HOME OF MARTINUS DECKER
BURNED BY BRANT'S RAIDERS,
JULY 20, 1779. REBUILT
1793. HEADQUARTERS OF
JOHN B. JERVIS, 1826-28
Location: AT INTERSECTION PARK AVE. AND MAIN ST.
FIRST MILL
BEFORE 1713, A GRIST MILL
WAS BUILT WHERE THIS ROAD
CROSSES THE BROOK, BY
STEPHEN TIETSOORT, SON OF
WILLIAM, FIRST SETTLER
Location: AT INTERSECTION KINGSTON AVE. & BEACH RD.
INDIAN RAID
MAGHAGHAKMIK CHURCH, BUILT
1743 ON THIS SITE, WAS
BURNED IN RAID BY JOSEPH
BRANT'S MOHAWKS AND TORIES,
JULY 20, 1779
Location: AT INTERSECTION MAIN ST. & JERSEY AVE.
INDIAN RAID
TAVERN AND HOME OF PETER
KUYKENDALL, JUSTICE OF
THE PEACE, 1731-1743;
BURNED BY BRANT'S RAIDERS,
JULY 20, 1779
Location: AT INTERSECTION ELIZABETH AND BROOME STS.
INDIAN RAID
HOUSE AND BARN OF SIMON
WESTFALL ON THIS SITE,
BURNED BY BRANT'S MOHAWKS
AND TORIES, JULY 20, 1776
Location: ON SOUTH MAPLE ST.
INDIAN RAID
ROUTE TAKEN BY COL. BRANT
WITH CAPTIVES AND CATTLE
TAKEN IN THE SACK OF
MINISINK (PORT JERVIS)
JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON ERIE ST. WEST OF PORT JERVIS CITY LINE
OLD MINE ROAD
OLDEST 100-MILE ROAD IN
AMERICAN. BUILT BY DUTCH
MINERS BEFORE 1664 FROM
KINGSTON TO COPPER MINES
NEAR DELAWARE WATER GAP
Location: ON US 6 ON E. MAIN ST. IN PORT JERVIS IN FRONT OF HIGH SCHOOL
PORT JERVIS
NAMED FOR JOHN B. JERVIS,
ENGINEER, WHO BUILT D. AND H.
CANAL. WAS CALLED
MAHACKEMECK BY INDIANS.
FIRST SETTLER, 1690.
Location: ON ORANGE ST. BETWEEN SOUTH AND BROOME STS.

County: ORANGE
Town: TUXEDO, TOWN OF

AN IRON FURNACE
& OTHER WORKS WERE BUILT
AT THIS PLACE IN 1767 BY
PETER HASSENCLEVER
GERMAN PROMOTER, TO REDUCE
ORES FROM NEARBY MINES
Location: ON PARK RD. SOUTHEAST OF LAKE TIORATI
AUGUSTA FURNACE
BUILT ABOUT 1783 BY PETER
TOWNSEND, FORMERLY STOOD
AT THE FOOT OF THE FALLS
ON THE RAMAPO RIVER,
TO THE EAST
Location: ON NYS 17 AT TUXEDO PARK
BRADLEY MINE
ABOVE THIS ROAD WAS ONE
OF THE LARGEST AND RICHEST
IRON MINES IN THE HUDSON
HIGHLANDS. CEASED
OPERATIONS 60 YEARS AGO
Location: ON ARDEN VALLEY RD. NEAR LAKE CAHASSET
CLAUDIUS SMITH
NORTORIOUS GUERILLA OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD,
MADE HIS DEN AND HID
HIS SPOILS IN THE
HILLS TO THE EASTWARD
Location: ON NYS 17 AT TUXEDO PARK
ORANGE COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF PROVINCE OF NEW YORK,
ESTABLISHED 1683, BY GOV.
THOMAS DONGAN, NAMED FOR
WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE
Location: ON NYS 17 AT ROCKLAND-ORANGE COUNTY LINE

County: ORANGE
Town: WALLKILL, TOWN OF

HOPEWELL
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BUILT
1778, 1 1/2 MILE WEST AT OLD
HOPEWELL; FIRST PASTOR REV.
JONATHAN FREEMAN, 1793-98.
PRESENT CHURCH BUILT 1831.
Location: ON NYS 84 AT MICHIGAN CORNERS
MAPES CEMETERY
BURIALS FROM 1804 INCLUDING
SAMUEL MAPES, 1735-1820,
SOLDIER OF REVOLUTION,
SIGNER OF PLEDGE TO SUSTAIN
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
Location: ON NYS 211 AT HOWELLS
MAPES TRACT
664 ACRES MINISINK PATENT
ACQUIRED JULY 8, 1776 AND
CLEARED FROM WILDERNESS BY
SAMUEL MAPES, 1735-1820,
REVOLUTIONARY MILITIAMAN
Location: ON NYS 211 AT HOWELLS
[ARROW]
ONE MILE NORTHWEST
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, SCOTCHTOWN, N.Y.
ORGANIZED JUNE 1796, BUILDING
OPENED SEPT. 12, 1797.
PRESENT EDIFICE BUILT 1854
Location: ON NYS 84 ABOUT 4 MI. EAST OF MIDDLETOWN
[ARROW]
ONE MILE NORTHWEST
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, SCOTCHTOWN, N.Y.
ORGANIZED JUNE 1796, BUILDING
OPENED SEPT. 12, 1797.
PRESENT EDIFICE BUILT 1854.
Location: ON NYS 84 ABOUT 4 MIS. EAST OF MIDDLESTOWN

County: ORANGE
Town: WARWICK, TOWN OF

AT THIS POINT STOOD A
TOLL GATE
ESTABLISHED 1808 ON THE
NEW ROAD TO STERLING
A SHORT-CUT TO NORTHERN
NEW JERSEY & NEW YORK CITY
Location: ON OAKLAND AVE. NEAR LEHIGH & HUDSON R. RR AT WARWICK
CAMP SITE
USED BY TROOPS ON WAY TO
JOIN GENERAL SULLIVAN AT
EASTON IN SPRING OF 1779
AND ON RETURN IN FALL
OF THAT YEAR
Location: ON FOSTER AVE. AT EAST END OF VLGE. OF WARAICK
CHUCKHASS
SIGNED INDIAN DEED 1703
TO WAWAYANDA PATENT LANDS
LIVED 1/2 MILE SOUTH ON
BENJ. ASKE'S FARM NAMED
WARWICK BY OWNER IN 1719
Location: ON NYS 17A AT EAST END OF VLGE. OF WARWICK
HATHORN HOUSE
BUILT 1773 BY
GENERAL JOHN HATHORN
COMMANDER, WARWICK MILITIA
DURING REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 94 ABOUT 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF WARWICK
KINGS HIGHWAY
SINCE 1734 - HERE
DANIEL MORGAN RESTED HIS
VIRGINIA RIFLEMEN AND
GAVE EXHIBITION OF
THEIR MARKSMANSHIP, 1775
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MI. NORTHEAST OF WARWICK
SAYERVILLE
LOG BLOCKHOUSES STOOD HERE
HOME OF DANIEL SAYER 1768
UNTIL HIS STONE HOUSE WAS
BUILT 1783. SAYER HOMESTEAD
FOR FIVE GENERATIONS.
Location: ON N. SIDE OF 17A, 1 MI. EAST VLGE. OF WARWICK
SETTLERS
FIRST IN TOWN OF WARWICK
JOHANNES & ELIZ. WISNER
UNDER WAWAYANDA PAT. 1702
SETTLED HERE 1712
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. SOUTHWEST OF FLORIDA
THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
CAMPED HERE
ON THE MARCH FROM
NEWBURGH TO MORRISTOWN
Location: ON NYS 94 ABOUT 2 MIS. S.W. VLGE. WARWICK
WILLIAM H. SEWARD
1801-1872
WAS BORN ON THIS SITE
IN HOUSE NOW USED AS
A BARN IN THE REAR
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 17A AND NYS 94 AT FLORIDA
WISNER TRACT
CAPT. JOHN WISNER, 1722-78
COLONIAL WARS & REVOLUTION
PURCHASED 2064 ACRES IN 1766
HOUSE BUILT BY GREAT-GRANDSON
HENRY B. WISNER, 1840
Location: ON GROUNDS OF N.Y.S. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR BOYS ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. NORTHEAST OF WARWICK
[ARROW]
1/4 MILE NORTH
TO SITES OF
COLONIAL FORGE
AND INDIAN
LONG HOUSE
Location: ON NYS 17A AT BELLVALE

County: ORANGE
Town: WAWAYANDA, TOWN OF

OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST
MEETING HOUSE
ERECTED IN 1792 IN
BROOKFIELD, NOW SLATE
HILL. ELDER LABEAS
LATHROP WAS FIRST PASTOR
Location: ON US 6 AT SLATE HILL
ONE MILE [ARROW]
FRIST PRESYTERIAN
CHURCH, RIDGEBURY, N.Y.
ORGANIZED IN 1792 BY THE
REV. ISAAC SARGENT. PRESENT
BUILDING ERECTED 1841
Location: ON NYS 84 ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTHWEST OF SLATE HILL

County: ORANGE
Town: WOODBURY, TOWN OF

CAMP SITE
AT VAN AMBROSE'S HOUSE IN
THE CLOVE, OCCUPIED BY PART
OF THE RIGHT WING OF THE
AMERICAN ARMY IN THE
SUMMER OF 1779
Location: ON NYS 32 ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF CENTRAL VALLEY

County: ORLEANS
Town: ALBION, TOWN OF

HOME OF
SANFORD E. CHURCH
1815-1880
LIEUT. GOV. 1850-52
COMPTROLLER OF STATE 1857
CHIEF JUDGE CT. OF APPEALS 1867-80
Location: AT INGERSOLL & E. STATE STS. IN ALBION

County: ORLEANS
Town: BARRE, TOWN OF

BRAGGS CORNERS
SOLOMON BRAGG WITH SON NATHAN
WERE FIRST SETTLERS WEST OF
BARRE CENTER. BLAZED FOREST
TRAIL TO THIS PLACE WHERE
THEY BUILT A CABIN IN 1818
Location: ON NYS 279 ABOUT 2 MIS. S.W. OF BARRE CENTER
ELISHA WRIGHT
EARLY PIONEER OF BARRE
BUILT THIS HOUSE IN 1831
FOUNDER OF WEST BARRE M.E.
CHURCH, 1833. ASSEMBLYMAN, 1843
SUPERVISOR 1844. B.1791 - D.1875
Location: ON CO. RD. 1/2 MI. S. OF W. BARRE
INDIAN TRAIL
BRANCH OF GRAND CENTRAL
TRAIL EXTENDING FROM
BATAVIA TO LAKE ONTARIO
KNOWN BY PIONEERS AS
THE OAK ORCHARD TRAIL
Location: ON NYS 98 IN BARRE CENTER

County: ORLEANS
Town: CARLTON, TOWN OF

ANCIENT MOUND
BUILT BY THE ALGONKIAN
INDIANS OF THE SECOND
PERIOD OR POLISHED STONE
AGE, EXCAVATED IN 1932-33
BY CHARLES WYMAN PALMER
Location: ON BANK OF OAK ORCHARD CREEK ABOUT 2 MIS. N.E. OF WATERPORT
FORDING PLACE
USED FIRST BY INDIANS
LATER BY EARLY PIONEERS
THE OAK ORCHARD TRAIL
FROM BATAVIA TO ONTARIO
CROSSED THE CREEK HERE
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. N.E. OF WATERPORT

County: ORLEANS
Town: CLAREDON, TOWN OF

FARWELL'S MILLS
HERE ELDRED FARWELL, FIRST
WHITE SETTLER OF TOWN, BUILT
THE FIRST MILLS IN CLARENDON
SAW MILL IN 1811
GRIST MILL IN 1813
Location: ON NYS 237 IN CLARENDON

County: ORLEANS
Town: GAINES, TOWN OF

BURIAL GROUND
1ST IN ORLEANS COUNTY IN
WHICH REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS
JOHN ANDERSON-DAVID BULLARD
AND MANY PIONEERS ARE BURIED
FIRST BURIAL IN 1812
Location: ON US 104 IN GAINES
FIRST ACADEMY
BETWEEN THE NIAGARA AND
GENESEE. BUILT IN 1825
INCORPORATED IN 1827
ADMITTED TO THE REGENTS OF
STATE OF N.Y. IN 1830
Location: ON US 104 IN GAINES
FIRST CHURCH
BUILT FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP
ON RIDGE ROAD BETWEEN
NIAGARA AND GENESEE RIVERS
NORTH OF BATAVIA
ERECTED IN 1824
Location: ON US 104 IN GAINES
FIVE MILE HOUSE
LATER KNOWN AS BALL'S TAVERN
BUILT IN 1816 BY JOHN HUFF
HERE THE MAIL CARRIERS BETWEEN
CANANDAIGUA AND LEWISTON
USED TO STOP OVER NIGHT
Location: ON US 104 ABOUT 1 MI. E. OF EAST GAINS

County: ORLEANS
Town: KENDALL, TOWN OF

FIRST SETTLERS
CLARK'S SETTLEMENT
MADE BY FOLLOWING FAMILIES
CLARK, BATES, PRIEST, RANDALL,
BALCOM, ROSS, MANLEY IN
THIS VICINITY IN 1812-1817
Location: ON NYS 272 IN MORTON
NORWAY ROAD
FIRST NORWEGIAN SETTLEMENT
IN NEW YORK STATE - 1838
MADE BY OLE ORSLAND AND
ABOUT 20 OTHER PERSONS WHOSE
PASSAGE WAS PAID BY HIM
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3 MIS. N.E. OF KENDALL

County: ORLEANS
Town: MURRAY, TOWN OF

BALCOM'S MILLS
SITE OF FLOUR AND GRIST
MILL ERECTED 1834 BY
HIEL BROCKWAY AND ABNER
BALCOM. SAW MILL ON NORTH
END OF DAM ERECTED 1837
Location: ON NYS 387 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. NORTH OF FANCHER
FOUNDER OF HULBERTON
IN 1826 BOUGHT 130 ACRES
LAND WHICH HE LAID OUT IN
LOTS (1833) IN 1830, HE GAVE TO
M.E. SOCIETY THIS PROPERTY
Location: ON CO. RD. IN HULBERTON

County: ORLEANS
Town: RIDGEWAY, TOWN OF

1ST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY
TOWN OF RIDGEWAY
ORGANIZED AUGUST, 1817
RECIPIENT OF GOSPEL LOT
FROM HOLLAND LAND COMPANY
FIRST CHURCH DEDICATED 1832
Location: ON PRESBYTERIAN ST. IN KNOWLESVILLE

County: ORLEANS
Town: SHELBY, TOWN OF

NEUTER FORT
OCCUPIED IN 14TH CENTURY
BY NEUTER INDIANS
ONLY DOUBLE PALISADED FORT
IN NEW YORK STATE
DESTROYED BY IROQUOIS 1650
Location: AT SITE OF FORT ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. WEST OF SHELBY
NEUTER TRAIL
USED BY NEUTER INDIANS
WHO OCCUPIED FORT
ONE MILE WEST OF HERE
PROBABLY IN 14TH CENTURY
WERE DESTROYED BY SENECAS
Location: ON NYS 63 IN SHELBY

County: OSWEGO
Town: CONSTANTIA, TOWN OF

FIRST SETLER
NEAR THIS SPOT
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
MADE FIRST SETTLEMENT
IN CLEVELAND
1821
Location: ON NYS 49 AT CLEVELAND
FIRST SETTLER
NEAR THIS SPOT
JOHN BERNHARD
MADE FIRST SETTLEMENT
IN BERNHARD'S BAY
1795
Location: ON NYS 49 AT BERNHARD'S BAY
FRENCHMAN'S
ISLAND
CAMP SITE OF VAN SCHAICK'S
EXPEDITION ON RETURN
FROM ATTACK ON ONONDAGA
APRILL 22, 1779
Location: ON NYS 49 ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF CONSTANTIA
KEMPWYK
HOME OF
FRANCIS ADRIAN
VAN DER KAMP
1793
Location: ON NYS 49 ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF CLEVELAND
TRINITY
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
ERECTED 1831, 24 ACRES
AND BUILDING DONATED BY
FREDERICK W. SCRIBA.
Location: ON NYS 49 AT CONSTANTIA

County: OSWEGO
Town: HASTINGS, TOWN OF

FIRST SETTLER
NEAR THIS SPOT
MYRON STEVENS
MADE FIRST SETTLEMENT
IN CAUGHDENOY
1797
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD AT CAUGHDENOY
FIRST SETTLER
NEAR THIS SPOT
OLIVER STEVENS
MADE FIRST SETTLEMENT
IN BREWERTON AND
OSWEGO COUNTY, 1789
Location: ON US 11 AT BREWERTON
FORT BREWERTON
ORIGINAL EARTHWORK
OF FORT ERECTED BY
BRITISH IN 1759
Location: ON US 11 AT BREWERTON
INDIAN FISHERY
T'KAH-KOON-GOON-DA-NAH-YEA
WAS LOCATED
NEAR THIS SPOT
1753
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD AT CAUGHDENOY
NEAR THIS SPOT
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
ON OCTOBER 8, 1615
CROSSED THE RIVER
AND DISCOVERED
ONEIDA LAKE
Location: ON US 11 AT BREWERTON
OVER THIS WATER ROUTE
ST. LEGER'S
ARMY
PASSED TO INVEST
FT. STANWIX
JULY 29, 1777
Location: ON US 11 AT BREWERTON
[ARROW]
A FEW RODS SOUTH
OLIVER STEVENS
1ST SETTLER IN BREWERTON
ERECTED A BLOCKHOUSE
1794
Location: ON US 11 AT BREWERTON

County: OSWEGO
Town: MEXICO, TOWN OF

SILAS TOWNE
REVOLUTIONARY HERO
HERE OVERHEARD PLANS OF
ST. LEGER'S ARMY WHEREBY
PATRIOTS SAVED FT. STANWIX
& WON BATTLE OF ORISKANY
Location: ON CO. RD. AT SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF MEXICO
[ARROW]
SPY ISLAND
AND THE GRAVE OF
SILAS TOWNE
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF MEXICO

County: OSWEGO
Town: OSWEGO, CITY OF

FIRST
COURT HOUSE
ERECTED 1822 ON PRESENT SITE
REMOVED 1859 AND SINCE USED
FOR CHURCH PURPOSES
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF E. ONEIDA & E. SECOND STS.
HERE WAS THE OLD
CABLE FERRY
BY WHICH THE RIVER
WAS CROSSED 1803
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF W. SENECA & W. FIRST STS.
THIS WAS THE
FIRST BUILDING
IN OSWEGO TO BE USED
AS A SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH
AND PUBLIC HALL
ERECTED ABOUT 1806
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF W. SENECA & W. FIRST STS.

County: OSWEGO
Town: REDFIELD, TOWN OF

CAPTAIN
NATHAN SAGE
OF CONN. MADE THE
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN TOWN
OF REDFIELD NEARBY
ABOUT 1795
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD AT REDFIELD

County: OSWEGO
Town: RICHFIELD, TOWN OF

SAMUEL DE
CHAMPLAIN
WEST OF HERE ON LAKE SHORE
CAHMPLAIN WITH FRENCH AND
HURONS LANDED, OCT. 1615 ON
HIS EXPEDITION AGAINST IROQUOIS
Location: ON US 11 AT PULASKI

County: OSWEGO
Town: SCHROEPPEL, TOWN OF

1809 STATE ROAD
LATER PLANK ROAD. PASSED
THROUGH ROOSEVELT HAMLET,
FOUNDED BY NICHOLAS J.
ROOSEVELT
Location: ON NYS 49 AT ROOSEVELT CORNERS
BURIAL PLACE "GEORGE CASPER SCHROEPPEL"
FOUNDER OF TOWN OF
SCHROEPPEL, OWNER OF
TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES,
DIED 1825.
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD IN PENNELLVILLE
GRIST MILL
FIRST IN TOWN OF SCHROEPPEL
BUILT HERE AT GILBERT'S
MILLS BY ANDRUS AND HIRAM
GILBERT IN 1819
Location: ON TOWN ROAD AT GILBERT'S MILLS
HINMANVILLE
LOCK NO. 1
LOCATED NEAR HERE. LOCK
TENDER'S HOUSE NEARBY. OLD
OSWEGO CANAL COMPLETED 1828.
IMPORTANT WATERWAY TO WEST.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT HINMANVILLE
KUH-NA-TA-HA
INDIAN FISHING VILLAGE 1654
KNOWN TO THE INDIANS AS
"PLACE OF TALL PINES"
DISCOVERED BY FATHER LE MOYNE
Location: ON NYS 57 AT PHEONIX
PENNELL
SAW MILL
BUILT HERE BY
DR. RICHARD PENNELL
IN 1833
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD IN PENNELLVILLE
SCHROEPPEL
HOMESTEAD
FIRST FRAME HOUSE BUILT
IN SCHROEPPEL TOWN 1818 BY
GEORGE CASPER SCHROEPPEL
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT SCHROEPPEL'S BRIDGE
SITE OF
FIRST LOG CABIN
ABRAM PADDOCK KNOWN TO
INDIANS AS "BEAR HUNTER
PADDOCK", FIRST WHITE
SETTLER IN SCHROEPPEL,
BUILT HIS CABIN HERE 1801
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF STATE & CULVERT STS. AT PHOENIX
SITE OF
STOCKADED FORT
1758-1759
ABOUT 60 FEET SQUARE
CONTAINING 3 STOREHOUSES
BUILT BY COLONY OF N. Y.
Location: ON NYS 57 AT THREE RIVERS
SITE OF
BRITISH CAMP
SIR JEFFERY AMHERST WITH
TEN THOUSAND TROOPS WAS
HERE 1760 ENROUTE TO
CANADA TO CRUSH FRENCH
POWER IN AMERICA
Location: ON NYS 57 AT THREE RIVERS
SITE OF
SALT WELL
WELL SUNK 340 FEET IN 1864
BY CAPT. E.S. COOK RESULTED
IN STRONG SALT BRINE. SIX
KETTLES WERE BUILT INTO AN
ARCH FOR MANUFACTURING SALT
Location: ON TOWN ROAD AT GILBERT'S MILLS
SITE OF
TOLL GATE
PLANK ROAD BUILT 1855
CONNECTED PHOENIX WITH
PENNELLVILLE. ROAD FIVE
MILES IN LENGTH.
Location: ON NYS 264 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF PHOENIX
TOWN MEETING
FIRST TOWN MEETING IN
SCHROEPPEL WAS HELD HERE
AT HOME OF JAMES B.
RICHARDSON IN 1833
Location: ON NYS 57 AT PHOENIX
TREASURE ISLAND
FRENCH COLONISTS CAMPED ON
ISLAND IN ESCAPING FROM ONONDAGA
INDIANS IN 1658. SAID TO HAVE
LIGHTENED THEIR WAR CHESTS AND
DEPOSITED CANNON AND GOLD HERE
Location: ON NYS 57 AT PHEONIX

County: OSWEGO
Town: SCRIBA, TOWN OF

SITE OF THE FIRST
LOG HOUSE
IN SCRIBA. BUILT 1804
BY MAJOR HIEL STONE
TEMPORARY HOSPITAL FOR
WOUNDED SOLIDERS 1814
Location: ON US 104 AT SCRIBA

County: OSWEGO
Town: WILLIAMSTOWN, TOWN OF

JEROME I. CASE
1819-1891
BORN NEAR HERE
PIONEER BUILDER OF
POWER FARM MACHINERY
Location: ON NYS 13 AT WILLIAMSTOWN

County: OTSEGO
Town: BURLINGTON, TOWN OF

FARM AND GRAVE
JEDIDIAH PECK
1747-1821
FATHER OF THE COMMON
SCHOOL SYSTEM OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. EAST OF BURLINGTON

County: OTSEGO
Town: CHERRY VALLEY, TOWN OF

-->
1/5 MILE SOUTH TO MONUMENT
MARKING SPOT WHERE
COLONEL ALDEN
WAS KILLED
NOVEMBER 11, 1778
SITE OF FORT ALDEN
Location: ON ALDEN ST. NEAR CHERRY VALLEY CEMETERY
1/2 MILE NORTH TO SITE
FORTIFIED
HOME
OF COL. SAMUEL CAMPBELL
1778
Location: ON US 20 AT CHERRY VALLEY
2/5 MILES WEST TO SITE OF
DUNLOP HOME
DESTROYED AT TIME OF
CHERRY VALLEY MASSACRE
NOVEMBER 11, 1778
Location: ON US 20 AT CHERRY VALLEY
CHERRY VALLEY
MASSACRE 1778
MONUMENT 1/5 MILE SOUTH
Location: ON US 20 AT CHERRY VALLEY
[ARROW]
2 MILES NORTH TO
WORMUTH ROCK
MARKING SPOT WHERE
LIEUT. WORMUTH FELL 1778
SHOT BY JOSEPH BRANT
FIRST LEFT, THEN RIGHT FORK
Location: ON US 20 AT CHERRY VALLEY

County: OTSEGO
Town: COOPERSTOWN VILLAGE OF

CARDIFF GIANT
THE GREAT AMERICAN HOAX
DUG UP IN CARDIFF, NY
OCTOBER 16, 1869
NOW AT THE FARMERS' MUSEUM

County: OTSEGO
Town: EXETER, TOWN OF

OLD STONE CHURCH
BUILT 1839-40
BY GEORGE HERKIMER
NOW USED AS A
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
Location: ON NYS 28 AT SCHUYLER LAKE
SITE OF
HERKIMER CEMETERY
HENDRICK HERKIMER, BROTHER
OF GEN. NICHOLAS HERKIMER,
HIS SONS, GEORGE AND ABRAHAM,
WHO SERVED IN AMERICAN
REVOLUTION, ARE BURIED HERE
Location: ON NYS 28 AT SCHUYLER LAKE
SITE OF_
HERKIMER FARM
ORIGINAL HERKIMER HOMESTEAD
IN EXETER, THEN TRYON CO.
SETTLED BY HENDRICK HERKIMER
PRIOR TO REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 28 AT SCHUYLER LAKE
TUNNICLIFF-1755
HOMESTEAD OF JOHN TUNNICLIFF, SR.
EARLY COLONIZER OF NEW YORK
ALSO HIS SON, MAJOR JOSEPH
TUNNICLIFF, SOLDIER IN
WAR OF 1812
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH-WEST OF SCHUYLER LAKE

County: OTSEGO
Town: HARTWICK, TOWN OF

ABNER ADAMS
1745-1825
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER;
ONE OF ISRAEL PUTNAM'S
RANGERS; IS BURIED
IN THIS CEMETERY
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES N.E. OF SOUTH HARTWICK
BAPTIST CHURCH
FIRST CHURCH IN
TOWN OF HARTWICK
ORGANIZED AUGUST 1795
WITH 12 CHARTER MEMBERS
THIS BUILDING BUILT 1854
Location: ON E. MAIN ST. IN HARTWICK
HARTWICK COLLEGE
FOUNDED AS HARTWICK SEMINARY
1797
CHARTERED AS HARTWICK COLLEGE
FEBRUARY 17, 1928
Location: ON COLLEGE CAMPUS AT CLINTON & WEST STS.
HARTWICK SEMINARY
OLDEST LUTHERAN
THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN
AMERICA. FOUNDED 1797
BY REV. JOHN CHRISTOPHER
HARTWICK. LOCATED HERE 1816
Location: ON NYS 28 AT HARTWICK SEMINARY
HOME OF
MARCUS WELLS
1815-1895
WROTE WORLD FAMOUS HYMN
"HOLY SPIRIT, FAITHFUL GUIDE"
Location: ON NYS 205 AT HARTWICK
SOUTH HARTWICK
CEMETERY 1812
REV. EBENEZER WHITE, 1770-1813,
NOTED METHODIST ITINERANT
MINISTER IS BURIED HERE
Location: ON CO. RD. AT SOUTH HARTWICK

County: OTSEGO
Town: MORRIS, TOWN OF

BUTTERNUT VALLEY
NAMED FOR THREE BUTTERNUT
TREES GROWING FROM ONE
STUMP, THE ORIGINAL CORNER
OF HILLINGTON, WELLS AND
OTEGO PATENTS 1170' DUE S.E.
Location: ON NYS 51 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF MORRIS

County: OTSEGO
Town: OTEGO, TOWN OF

REVOLUTIONARY
ARMY CAMP
SULLIVAN-CLINTON FORCES
CAMPED NEAR THIS SPOT
AUGUST 11, 1779
Location: ON NYS 7 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF OTEGO

County: OTSEGO
Town: OTSEGO, TOWN OF

"NATTY BUMPPO"
LEATHERSTOCKING RESCUED
CHINGACHGOOK FROM FLAMES
CHINGACH DYING IN HIS CARE
"PIONEER"
Location: ON CO. RD., E. SIDE OTSEGO LAKE ABOUT 3 MI. N. OF COOPERSTOWN
CLINTON'S DAM
DAM OPENED AUGUST 9, 1779
2000 MEN AND 200 BATEAUX
WENT DOWN THE SUSQUEHANNA
Location: ON LAKE ST. AT COOPERSTOWN
COUNCIL ROCK
FAMOUS MEETING PLACE
OF THE INDIANS
Location: ON MAIN ST. AT COOPERSTOWN
GEORGE CROGHAN
INDIAN AGENT - LAND SPECULATOR
LIVED IN PIONEER LOG HOUSE
LOCATED HERE 1769-1770.
GENERAL JAMES CLINTON'S
HEADQUARTERS HERE 1779.
Location: ON MAIN ST. AT COOPERSTOWN
HUTTERS POINT
WHERE HETTIE SAVED HER
FATHER, TOM HUTTER
AND HURRY HARRY
FROM THE HURON
"DEERSLAYER"
Location: ON NYS 80 ABOUT 4 1/2 MILES NORTH OF COOPERSTOWN
OLDEST CHURCH
IN COOPERSTOWN
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
ORGANIZED JUNE 16, 1805
LAND GIFT OF JUDGE COOPER
Location: ON PIONEER ST.
SUNKEN ISLAND
HOME OF TOM HUTTER
"DEERSLAYER"
Location: ON NYS 80 ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF COOPERSTOWN

County: OTSEGO
Town: OWRCESTER, TOWN OF

SITE OF
FIRST MILL
IN TOWN OF WORCESTER
ERECTED BY
SILAS CRIPPEN
1790
Location: ON NYS 7 1 MILE FROM WORCESTER

County: OTSEGO
Town: RICHFIELD, TOWN OF

BRIGHTON
SITE OF 2ND MATCH FACTORY IN
U.S., EATON AND STANTON OWNERS
1845-50; 1ST POST OFFICE IN
TOWN 1807; IVORY HOLLAND,
1ST POST MASTER
Location: ON US 20 AT BIRGHTON CORNERS
BUTTERNUT ROAD
INDIAN TRAIL FROM FORT
PLAIN TO UNADILLA; ON
MAP BY BRITISH OFFICER,
1757, DURING FRENCH
AND INDIAN WAR
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF RICHFIELD SPRINGS
FEDERAL CORNERS
FORMER HOME OF LEMUEL
VIBBER, OWNER OF TWELVE-
FORGE BLACKSMITH SHOP.
HOUSE ERECTED 1798
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF RICHFIELD SPRINGS
FEDERAL CORNERS.
ONCE A BUSY HAMLET, SITE OF
AVERILL INN, VIBBER'S TWELVE-
FORGE SHOP, STORE, TANNERY. HOME,
SCHOOL OF DR. JAS. L. PALMER
PHYSICIAN AND TEACHER
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF RICHFIELD SPRINGS
FRENCH WAR-1757
HERE ENGLISH TROOPS
GUIDED BY INDIANS
SOUGHT SULPHUR DEPOSIT
SITE GREAT SULPHUR SPRING
OPENED TO PUBLIC 1820
Location: ON US 20 AT RICHFIELD SPRINGS
MONTICELLO
SITE OF BAPTIST CHURCH
BUILT 1824, RAZED 1920,
NEARLY OPPPOSITE SITE OF
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
BUILT 1880, RAZED 1921
Location: ON CO. RD. AT RICHFIELD
PRESBTERIAN CHURCH
ORGANIZED IN 1803.
FIRST VILLAGE CHURCH
BUILT AT THIS SITE 1825.
NATHAN DOW GAVE THE LAND
PRESENT CHURCH BUILT 1877.
Location: RICHFIELD SPRINGS, HIGHWAY 167 IN FRONT OF CHURCH
RICHFIELD HOTEL
OLDEST TAVERN IN RICHFIELD; BUILT
BY NATHAN DOW IN 1816, WHO WAS
WITH ETHAN ALLEN AT TICONDEROGA.
FIRST SUMMER GUESTS, 1821, WHEN
BOARD WAS $1.25 PER WEEK
Location: ON US 20 AT RICHFIELD SPRINGS
SITE OF
BEARDSLEY HOME
BUILT 1790 IN FOREST BY
OBADIAH BEARDSLEY AND FAMILY
FIRST SETTLERS IN RICHFIELD.
ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, A LIBRARY AND
SCHOOL WERE FOUNDED SOON AFTER
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORWEST OF RICHFIELD
SITE OF
TUNNIFCLIFF ABBEY
TAVERN BUILT 1800
BY WILLIAM TUNNICLIFF
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
Location: ON US 20 AT RICHFIELD SPRINGS
ST. LUKE'S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
ORGANIZED MAY 20, 1799
FATHER NASH, FIRST RECTOR
NOTED MISSIONARY, MENTIONED
IN COOPER'S "THE PIONEERS"
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT RICHFIELD
TUNNICLIFF MILL
BUILT 1791 BY JEDIAH PECK, WHO
"WOULD SURVEY YOUR FARM
IN THE FORENOON, PREACH A
FUNERAL SERMON IN AFTERNOON
AND TALK POLITICS
ALL THE WEEK"
Location: ON US 20 AT RICHFIELD SPRINGS

County: OTSEGO
Town: SPRINGFIELD, TOWN OF

CONTINENTAL SCHOOL
LOG SCHOOLHOUSE
ON THIS SITE IN 1797
FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL IN
TOWN ORGANIZED HERE 1819
Location: ON TOWN RD. 2 MILES SOUTH OF MIDDLE SPRINGFIELD
FIRST CHURCH
IN SPRINGFIELD, AND FIRST
BAPTIST CHURCH WEST OF
HUDSON VALLEY 1787. USED
BY ALL DENOMINATIONS AND
FOR TOWN MEETINGS
Location: ON US 20 AT MIDDLE SPRINGFIELD
NEAR HERE STOOD THE
LOG SCHOOL
HOUSE, PROBABLY FIRST IN
THE TOWN. BUILT BEFORE
ORGANIZATION OF SPRING-
FIELD IN 1797
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF E. SPRINGFIELD
ONE OF THE EARLY
TOLL GATES
ON THE THIRD DIVISION
OF THE WESTERN TURNPIKE
COMPLETED IN 1808
Location: ON US 20 AT EAST SPRINGFIELD
SPALSBERRY
CENTER
AN EARLY SETTLEMENT HERE
BURNED BY INDIANS UNDER
JOSEPH BRANT
JUNE 18, 1778
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF EAST SPRINGFIELD
[ARROW]
CLINTON CAMP
OCCUPIED BY 4TH PENNSYLVANIA
REGIMENT WHO SERVED AS GUARD
FOR SUPPLY WAGONS
1779
Location: ON US 20 AT MIDDLE SPRINGFIELD
[ARROW].
CAMP AND FORT
AT HYDE BAY, OTSEGO LAKE
1 1/2 MILES SOUTH, OCCUPIED
BY 4TH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT
1779
Location: ON US 20 AT MIDDLE SPRINGFIELD

County: OTSEGO
Town: WORCESTER, TOWN OF

FIRST CHURCH
IN VILLAGE OF WORCESTER
ORGANIZED 1792 AS
CONGREGATIONAL
BECAME PRESBYTERIAN 1917
PRESENT EDIFICE ERECTED 1892
Location: ON NYS 7 AT WORCESTER
GARFIELD FARM
SITE OF HOME OF SOLOMON
GARFIELD AND SON THOMAS.
ABRAM GARFIELD, FATHER OF
PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD
LIVED HERE PRIOR TO 1827
Location: ON NYS 7 AT WORCESTER
MURPHY HOME
TIMOTHY MURPHY, FAMOUS
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER,
LIVED ON THIS FARM
1812-1817
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF SO. WORCESTER

County: PUTNAM
Town: CARMEL, TOWN OF

ENOCH CROSBY
PATRIOT SPY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION. WAS ASSOCIATED
WITH CARMEL. HIS FARM WAS
NEARBY AND HE IS BURIED AT
GILEAD, ONE MILE FROM HERE
Location: ON NYS 52 AT CARMEL
RED MILLS
SITE OF GRIST AND CARDING
MILL, ORIGINAL BUILT ABOUT
1760 BY COL ROGER MORRIS.
IT GROUND GRAIN FOR THE
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS
Location: ON NYS 6N AT MAHOPAC FALLS
SIBYL LUDINGTON
RODE HORSEBACK OVER THIS
ROAD THE NIGHT OF APRIL 26,
1777, TO CALL OUT COLONEL
LUDINGTON'S REGIMENT TO
REPEL BRITISH AT DANBURY, CONN.
Location: ON NYS 6N AT MAHOPAC FALLS
SIBYL LUDINGTON
RODE HORSEBACK OVER THIS
ROAD THE NIGHT OF APRIL 26,
1777, TO CALL OUT COLONEL
LUDINGTON'S REGIMENT TO
REPEL BRITISH AT DANBURY, CONN.
Location: ON NYS 6N AT MAHOPAC FALLS
SIBYL LUDINGTON
RODE HORSEBACK OVER THIS
ROAD THE NIGHT OF APRIL 26,
1777, TO CALL OUT COLONEL
LUDINGTON'S REGIMENT TO
REPEL BRITISH AT DANBURY, CONN.
Location: ON US 6 AT CARMEL
THE LOG MANSION
BUILT ABOUT 1760 FOR MARY
PHILIPSE AND HER HUSBAND,
ROGER MORRIS, BY THEIR
GRATEFUL TENANTS, STOOD
ON THE KNOLL TO THE WEST
Location: ON NYS 6N AT MAHOPAC FALLS

County: PUTNAM
Town: KENT, TOWN OF

LUDINGTON'S
MARCH
COL. H. LUDINGTON LED HIS MEN
OVER THIS ROAD, APRIL 27, 1777
TO JOIN IN REPELLING BRITISH
RAIDERS AT DANBURY, CONN.
Location: ON CO. RD. AT LUDINGTONVILLE
SIBYL LUDINGTON
HERE ENDED HER NIGHT RIDE
APRIL 26, 1777, TO SUMMON
MILITIA OF COL. LUDINGTON'S
REGIMENT TO REPEL BRITISH
RAID AT DANBURY, CONN.
Location: ON NYS 52 SOUTH OF DUTCHESS-PUTNAM COUNTY LINE
SIBYL LUDINGTON
RODE HORSEBACK OVER THIS
ROAD THE NIGHT OF APRIL 26,
1777, TO CALL OUT COLONEL
LUDINGTON'S REGIMENT TO
REPEL BRITISH AT DANBURY, CONN.
Location: ON NYS 301 AT KENT CLIFFS
SIBYL LUDINGTON
RODE HORSEBACK OVER THIS
ROAD THE NIGHT OF APRIL 26,
1777, TO CALL OUT COLONEL
LUDINGTON'S REGIMENT TO
REPEL BRITISH AT DANBURY, CONN.
Location: ON NYS 301 AT MEAD CORNERS
SITE OF HOUSE
OF SOLOMON HOPKINS, ENOCH
CROSSY'S BROTHER-IN-LAW,
THE TOP STORY WINDOW WAS
ALWAYS OPEN FOR PATRIOT
SPY TO ENTER UNOBSERVED
Location: ON NYS 301 AT COLES MILLS

County: PUTNAM
Town: PATTERSON, TOWN OF

COLE'S CORNERS
HERE COL. HENRY LUDINGTON
TURNED EAST WITH HIS MEN
APRIL 27, 1777, MARCHING
TOWARD DANBURY, CONNECTICUT
TO REPEL BRITISH RAIDERS
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 1 MI. NORTH OF HAINES CORNERS
LUDINGTON GRAVES
HERE ARE BURIED COLONEL
HENRY LUDINGTON, OF THE
DUTCHESS COUNTY MILITIA
AND HIS DAUGHTER SIBYL,
WHO RODE TO CALL THEM
Location: ON NYS 311 AT PATTERSON
PUTNAM COUNTY
NAMED FOR GENERAL ISRAEL
PUTNAM, COMMANDER OF
AMERICAN FORCES IN THE
HUDSON HIGHLANDS DURING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 22 AT DUTCHESS-PUTNAM BORDER
SETTLER'S REVOLT
AT LOG CHURCH HERE, IN 1776
MILITIA FOUGHT SQUATTERS ON
PHILIPSE PATENT, ROUTED THEM
AND IMPRISONED PENDERGAST,
THE LEADER AND 50 OTHERS.
Location: ON NYS 216 AT WEST PATTERSON

County: PUTNAM
Town: PHILLIPSTOWN, TOWN OF

ARNOLD'S FLIGHT
AT BEVERLY DOCK, AT THE
FOOT OF THIS LANE, ARNOLD
DISCLOSED AS A TRAITOR, FLED
BY BOAT TO THE BRITISH SHIP
VULTURE, OFF CROTON POINT.
Location: ON NYS 9D ABOUT 3/4 MI. SO.. OF GARRISON FOUR CORNERS
CONNECTICUT CAMPS
ON THE HILL WEST OF THE
BROOK ARE REMAINS OF HUT
SITES, OVEN, ETC., MADE BY
NEW ENGLAND TROOPS GUARDING
WEST POINT, 1778-1783
Location: ON NYS 9D AT GARRISON FOUR CORNERS
CONNECTICUT LINE
TROOPS WERE ENCAMPED IN
THIS VALLEY ON BOTH SIDES
OF THE BROOK, DURING
THE WINTER OF 1780-1781
Location: ON NYS 301 AT E. END OF NELSONVILLE
FORT HILL
ON THE HILL TO THE WEST
ARE THE NORTH AND SOUTH
REDOUBTS, BUILT IN 1778,
FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE
HIGHLANDS AGAINST BRITISH
Location: ON US 9 ABOUT 3 1/2 MIS. N. OF WESTCHESTER-PUTNAM CO. LINE
PUTNAM COUNTY
NAMED FOR GENERAL ISRAEL
PUTNAM, COMMANDER OF
AMERICAN FORCES IN THE
HUDSON HIGHLANDS DURING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON US 9 AT PUTNAM-WESTCHESTER COUNTY LINE
PUTNAM COUNTY
NAMED FOR GENERAL ISRAEL
PUTNAM, COMMANDER OF
AMERICAN FORCES IN THE
HUDSON HIGHLANDS DURING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON US 9 AT DUTCHESS-PUTNAM COUNTY LINE
ROBINSON HOUSE
HERE STOOD THE ROBINSON
HOUSE, WHERE BENEDICT
ARNOLD, HIS TREASON DISCLOSED,
FLED FROM HIS WIFE AND BABY
TO THE BRITISH SHIP VULTURE.
Location: ON NYS 9D ABOUT 3/4 MI. SO.. OF GARRISON FOUR CORNERS
SOUTH REDOUBT
ONE OF THE FORTIFICATIONS
BUILT IN 1776-1777 TO
DEFEND THE HIGHLANDS,
STOOD ON THE HILL TO
THE NORTH, ABOVE HERE.
Location: ON NYS 403 AT SO. REDOUBT RD.
SUGAR LOAF
ON THE NORTH SLOPE OF
THIS HILL WAS ONE OF THE
FORTS BUILT, 1776-1777 TO
DEFEND THE HIGHLANDS, FROM
CONNECTICUT TO NEW JERSEY.
Location: ON 9D ABOUT 1 MI. SOUTH OF GARRISON FOUR CORNERS
THE FIRST CHAIN
PLANNED TO KEEP BRITISH
SHIPS FROM GOING UP
RIVER, ANCHORED ON SHORE
BELOW, WAS FORCED BY THE
ENEMY OCT. 7, 1777
Location: ON NYS 9D ABOUT 1 MI. N.E. OF PUTNAM-WESTCHESTER CO. LINE
[ARROW] 1/2 MILE
ARMY CAMP
WHILE WEST POINT DEFENCES
WERE BEING BUILT 1781
THE CONNECTICUT LINE
ENCAMPED ALONG THE BROOK
Location: ON NYS 9D ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. S. OF COLD SPRING

County: PUTNAM
Town: SOUTHEAST, TOWN OF

CHANCELLOR KENT
JAMES KENT, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF NEW YORK, AUTHOR OF
"COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN
LAW", WAS BORN ON A SITE TO
THE WEST, JULY 31, 1763
Location: ON NYS 22 AT DOANSBURG
ENOCH CROSBY
PATRIOT SPY OF AMERICAN
REVOLUTION, LIVED ON A
FARM GIVEN HIM FOR HIS
SERVICE, ON THE WEST SIDE
OF THIS RESERVOIR
Location: ON US 6 AT TILLY FOSTER
FOWLER HOUSE
ON OLD ROAD NORTH, BUILT
ABOUT 1740, BY MOSES FOWLER.
WASHINGTON OFTEN VISITED
HERE ON TRIPS FROM WEST
POINT TO CONNECTICUT
Location: ON US 6 AT TILLY FOSTER
PUTNAM COUNTY
NAMED FOR GENERAL ISRAEL
PUTNAM, COMMANDER OF
AMERICAN FORCES IN THE
HUDSON HIGHLANDS DURING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 22 AT PUTNAM-WESTCHESTER COUNTY LINE
TILLY FOSTER MINE
OPENED BY JAMES TOWNSEND
1810; LARGE PRODUCER, 1864-
1897; NAMED FOR FORMER
OWNER, WHOSE FAMILY CAME
FROM HARWICH, MASS. , 1749
Location: ON US 6 AT TILLY FOSTER
TWO MILES EAST
BIRTHPLACE OF
DARIUS M. COUCH
MAJOR GENERAL, U.S.A.
COMMANDER 2D CORPS, ARMY OF
POTOMAC, AT FREDERICKSBURG
AND CHANCELLORSVILLE, 1862-63
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 1 MI. N.E. OF BREWSTER

County: QUEENS
Town: NONE

ARBITRATION ROCK
IS UNDER THIS POINT. IT MARKS
THE SETTLEMENT, IN 1769, OF A
BOUNDARY LINE DISPUTE BETWEEN
THE TOWNS OF NEWTON AND BUSHWICK.
Location: MASPETH, ON ONDERDOK AVE. NORTH OF FLUSHING AVE. MASPETH.
CADWALLADER COLDEN HOUSE
BUILT 1762. STOOD OPPOSITE.
HE WAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK
1760 TO 1775. HE DIED HERE
ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1776.
Location: FLUSHING, HORACE HARDING BLVD., EAST OF RODMAN ST.
DEWITT CLINTON
HOUSE 1790-1828
STOOD SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET
NORTH OF HERE. GOV. DEWITT
CLINTON WORKED ON PLANS
FOR ERIE CANAL HERE.
Location: MASPETH, 58TH ST. NEAR 56TH ROAD
FIRST HOUSE NUMBER
IN QUEENS, ON HOUSE OPPOSITE
HERE, UNDER NUMERICAL STREET
& HOUSE NUMBER SYSTEM STARTED
1913 BY TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU
G. U. POWELL, ENGINEER IN CHARGE
Location: WOODHAVEN, NEAR PARK LANE SOUTH AND 85TH STREET
FOSTER HOUSE
STOOD OPPOSITE. STONE PART
USED DURING INDIAN ATTACKS.
THOMAS FOSTER WAS HANGED BY
HESSIANS; HIS SON RESCUED HIM.
Location: ALLEY POND, ON DOUGLASTON PARKWAY JUST EAST OF ALLEY POND
FRANCIS LEWIS
HERE WAS THE ESTATE OF
FRANCIS LEWIS, SIGNER OF
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
HIS HOME STOOD SEVERAL
HUNDRED FEET EAST OF HERE.
Location: WHITESTONE, 7TH AVE. AND CLINTONVILLE BLVD.
GEN. HOWE'S
HEADQUARTERS
STANDS OPPOSITE HERE. HOWE
WROTE HIS REPORT OF THE BATTLE
OF LONG ISLAND HERE SEPT. 3, 1776
WAS RENNE HOME
Location: NEWTOWN, QUEENS BLVD. AT 57TH AVE. ELMHURST
JACKSON'S MILL
HERE STOOD WESSEL'S GRIST
MILL, 1640. RAZED IN EARLY
INDIAN WAR, LATER MILLS OF
LUYSTER, KIP, FISH AND
JACKSON USED THE SAME SITE.
Location: JACKSON HEIGHTS, THIS MILL STOOD ABOUT AT THE CORSSING OF GRAND CENTRAL PARK
MOORE HOMESTEAD, 1662
ANCESTRAL HOME OF DR. C. C.
MOORE, AUTHOR OF "T'WAS THE
NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS". LATER
THE HOME OF GRANDSON OF
COMMODORE O. H. PERRY
Location: ELMHURST, 45TH AVE. AT BROADWAY
OLD FIRST CHURCH, 1652
OLDEST CHURCH IN QUEENS
CHURCH AND TOWN HALL OF
EARLY AMERICAN COLONISTS
1777 DESTROYED BY BRITISH.
1893 PRESENT CHURCH BUILT.
Location: 54TH AVENUE BETWEEN QUEENS BLVD & SEABURY ST.
ON AUG. 28, 1776
GEN. NATHANIEL WOODHULL
WAS CAPUTRED AND FATALLY
WOUNDED BY THE BRITISH IN
INCREASE CARPENTER'S HOUSE
200 FEET NORTH OF THIS SPOT.
Location: HOLLIS, AT SOUTHEAST CORNER JAMAICA AVE. AND 196TH ST.
PRINCE HOMESTEAD
STANDS OPPOSITE. BUILT BY
E. EMBREE 1780. WASHINGTON
STOPPED HERE TO SEE THE PRINCE
NURSERIES DURING HIS TRIP TO
LONG ISLAND 1789.
Location: FLUSHING, ON NORTHERN BLVD. BET. LAWRENCE ST. & COLLINS PL.
PROSPECT CEMETERY
ORIGINAL JAMAICA TOWN BURYING
GROUND, ESTABLISHED 1660.
EGBERT BENSON BORN 1746
DIED 1833, BURIED HERE. FIRST
ATTORNEY GENERAL N.Y. STATE.
Location: JAMAICA, 159TH ST., SOUTH OF BEAVER ROAD.
QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
EASTERLY PART BUILT 1694.
REMAINDER BUILT 1717. ALWAYS
USED FOR WORSHIP EXCEPT 1776-83
WHEN OCCUPIED BY BRITISH AS
PRISON, HOSPITAL AND STABLE.
Location: FLUSHING, 137-16 NORTHERN BLVD.
RAPELYE'S MILL
ON THIS SITE, 1655, CAPTAIN
JOHN COE ERECTED THE FIRST
GRIST MILL IN NEWTOWN, USED AS
A MILL BY RAPELYE UNTIL 1875.
Location: CORONA, THIS MILL STOOD ON COLONIAL AVE., OPPOSITE WALDRON ST.
REMSEN CEMETERY
COL. JEROMUS REMSEN, 1735-1790,
IS BURIED HERE. WAS COLONEL
OF A REGIMENT OF KINGS AND QUEENS
CO. MILITIA IN THE BATTLE OF
LONG ISLAND.
Location: FOREST HILL, JUST NORTH OF METROPOLITAN AVE. BET. ORVILLE ST. AND TROTTING
ST. GEORGE'S
SECOND EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON
LONG ISLAND
FOUNDED
1702
CHARTERED 1761 BY KING GEORGE III
1ST CHURCH 1746;
Location: MAIN STREET BETWEEN 28TH & 39TH AVENUES
STEVENS HOUSE
MAJOR GENERAL EBENEZER STEVENS
HOME EAST OF HERE. BORN
1752; TOOK PART IN BOSTON
TEA PARTY; MAJOR OF ARTILLERY
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
Location: L. I. CITY, 30TH ROAD EAST OF VERNON BLVD., ASTORIA
WALTER BOWNE
SITE OF HIS RESIDENCE. MAYOR
N.Y. CITY 1829-33. GREAT
GREAT GRANDSON OF JOHN BOWNE,
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL PATENTEES OF
FLUSHING.
Location: FLUSHING, EAST SIDE OF 155TH ST. MIDWAY BET. 33RD AVE. & 35TH AVE.

County: RENSSELAER
Town: BRUNSWICK, TOWN OF

1798
HOME OF
PHILIP D. DATER
BORN 1790-DIED 1868
SERVED IN WAR OF 1812
Location: ON NYS 96 AT EAGLE MILLS
GILEAD CHURCH
LUTHERAN, ORGANIZED ABOUT
1746 BY PALATINE SETTLERS,
400 FEET EAST OF THIS
SPOT. MOVED 2 1/2 MILES SOUTH
TO PRESENT SITE IN 1817.
Location: ON NYS 7 AT HAYNERSVILLE

County: RENSSELAER
Town: EAST GREENBUSH, TOWN OF

CITIZEN GENET
1763-1834
SETTLED TWO MILES WEST
OF HERE ABOUT 1800
GRAVE BEHIND THIS CHURCH
Location: ON US 9 & 20 IN FRONT OF DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, E. GREENBUSH
WAR OF 1812
GREENBUSH CANTONMENT
QUARTERS FOR UNITED STATES
ARMY SITUATED ON HALF
MILE NORTH OF HERE
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Location: ON US 9 & 20 COLUMBIA TRNPKE. AT HAMPTON MANOR
[ARROW]
4 MILES
FORT CRAILO
"YANKEE DOODLE"
WRITTEN THERE 1758
Location: INTERSECTION US 9 & 20 WITH NYS 4 & 40
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2500 FEET
FORT CRAILO
"YANKEE DOODLE"
WRITTEN THERE 1758
Location: INTERSECTION US 9 & 20 WITH NYS 9J

County: RENSSELAER
Town: HOOSICK, TOWN OF

"BALL SEMINARY"
BUILT IN 1842
INCORPORATED BY REGENTS 1843
PROPERTY CONVEYED 1863
TO THE TOWN OF HOOSICK
FOR A FREE UNION SCHOOL
Location: ON CLASSIC ST., HOOSICK FALLS
BENNINGTON
BATTLEFIELD
GENERAL STARK'S VICTORY
AUGUST 16, 1777
Location: ON NYS 67 ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF WALLOOMSAC
BENNINGTON
BATTLEFIELD
GENERAL STARK'S VICTORY
AUGUST 16, 1777
Location: ON NYS 67 ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF WALLOOMSAC
EARLY TAVERN
KEPT BY DAVID WILCOX
BEFORE 1814. LATER
HOME OF DR. JOHN WARREN.
BORN 1806, DIED 1882
Location: ON NYS 7 AT HOOSICK
FIRST MEETING HOUSE
IN HOOSICK FALLS
ERRECTED 1800
FOR THE USE OF THE
"WARREN SOCIETY OF HOOSICK"
BAPTIST CHURCH ORGANIZED 1847
Location: ON MAIN ST., HOOSICK FALLS
REFORMED PROTESTANT
DUTCH CHURCH AT
TIOSSIOOK
ORGANIZED MAY 2, 1792
PRESENT BUILDING ERECTED 1823
FIRST PASTOR REV. S. SMITH
Location: ON NYS 67 AT BUSKIRK
SITE OF
WALLOOMSAC M. E. CHURCH
INCORPORATED APRIL 18, 1811
REINCORPORATED 1845 AND 1858
ON PITTSTOWN CIRCUIT
CHURCH BUILDING REMOVED 1898
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF WALLOOMSAC
SITE OF
FIRST BRIDGE
OVER HOOSICK RIVER
AT THE FALLS, BUILT 1791
AS "FEDERAL BRIDGE". BUILDERS
JOHN WALDO AND JOHN RYAN
REBUILT BY J. MANCHESTER, 1825
Location: ON MECHANIC ST., HOOSICK FALLS
SITE OF FIRST
HOOSICK BAPTIST CHURCH
ORGANIZED MARCH 16, 1785
FIRST BUILDING ERECTED 1792
ELDER SAMUEL ROGERS
FIRST REGULAR PASTOR 1797
Location: ON NYS 7 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOOSICK
ST CROIX CHURCH
NEAR HERE IS SITE DUTCH
REFORM CHURCH THE FIRST
PROTESTANT CHURCH IN
HOOSICK VALLEY ON LOT OF
A. WENDELL IN HOOSICK PAT.
Location: ON NYS 67 ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF NORTH HOOSICK
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BENNINGTON
BATTLEFIELD
AUGUST 16, 1777
ROAD LEADING TO
SITE OF BATTLE AND
BAUM'S REDOUBT
Location: ON NYS 67 ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF WALLOOMSAC
[ARROW] BENNINGTON BATTLEFIELD
BATTERY POINT
HERE, AUGUST 16, 1777 A CANNON,
GUARDING BRIDGE AND FORD, WAS
CAPTURED BY THE AMERICANS. NOW
IN THE BENNINGTON HIST. MUSEUM
Location: ON NYS 67 ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF WALLOOMSAC

County: RENSSELAER
Town: NASSAU, TOWN OF

BENJ. BUDD'S TAVERN
BUILT BY HERSHON TURNER
ON SITE OF
KAUNAUMEEK WHERE BRAINERD
PREACHED TO INDIANS WITH AID OF
WAUWAUMPEQUUNNAUNT
Location: ON US 20 AT BRAINERD

County: RENSSELAER
Town: NORTH GREENBUSH, TOWN OF

VAN ALEN HOME
BUILT ON 400 ACRE TRACT
PURCHASED 1778 BY
JOHN EVERT VAN ALEN
BORN 1749 - DIED 1807
CONGRESSMAN 1793-1799
Location: ON NYS 43 AT DEFREESTVILLE
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5 MILES
FORT CRAILO
"YANKEE DOODLE"
WRITTEN THERE 1758
Location: ON NYS 40 AT DEFREESTVILLE

County: RENSSELAER
Town: PETERSBURG, TOWN OF

BRIMMER FARM
SETTLED 1754
INDIAN MASSACRE OCCURRED
HERE JUNE 2, 1755
GEORGE BRIMMER BURIED HERE
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF PETERSBURG JUNCTION
FARM OF
JOHN BRIMMER
WHO WAS CAPTURED
BY INDIANS, 1754
BURIED HERE IN 1830
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF PETERSBURG
HEZEKIAH
COON INN
FIRST TOWN MEETING HELD
HERE APRIL 5, 1791. H.
COON, MODERATOR; J. ODELL,
SUPERVISOR; J. GREENE, CLERK
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF PETERSBURG
LYDIA ODELL BAXTER
POET
BORN HERE SEPTEMBER 2,
1809 - DIED NEW YORK
CITY, JANUARY 23, 1874
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES EAST OF PETERSBURG
REYNOLDS FARM
SETTLED 1780
WILLIAM W. REYNOLDS
BORN IN RHODE ISLAND 1747
DIED HERE 1829. SERVED
IN AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PETERSBURG

County: RENSSELAER
Town: POESTENKILL, TOWN OF

GARFIELD CHURCH
PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD
PREACHED HERE
AND CONDUCTED HIS
WRITING SCHOOL EARNING
TUITION TO WILLIAMS COLLEGE
Location: ON TOWN ROAD TO POESTENKILL

County: RENSSELAER
Town: RENSSELAER, TOWN OF

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2000 FEET
FORT CRAILO
"YANKEE DOODLE"
WRITTEN THERE 1758
Location: ON BROADWAY AT DUNN MEMORIAL BRIDGE
[ARROW]
1200 FEET
FORT CRAILO
"YANKEE DOODLE"
WRITTEN THERE 1758
Location: AT AIKEN AVE. & COLUMBIA ST.
[ARROW]
1200 FEET
FORT CRAILO
"YANKEE DOODLE"
WRITTEN THERE 1758
Location: AT COLUMBIA ST. & BROADWAY
[ARROW]
FORT CRAILO
"YANKEE DOODLE"
WRITTEN HERE 1758
Location: ON RIVERSIDE AVE. OPPOSITE FORT CRAILO
[ARROW]
2000 FEET
FORT CRAILO
"YANKEE DOODLE"
WRITTEN THERE 1758
Location: ON DUNN MEMORIAL BRIDGE

County: RENSSELAER
Town: SAND LAKE, TOWN OF

TRINITY
LUTHERAN CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1776
PRESENT HOUSE OF WORSHIP
ERECTED IN 1816
Location: ALBANY AVE., CHURCH ST.

County: RENSSELAER
Town: TROY, CITY OF

HERMAN MELVILLE
AUTHOR OF "MOBY DICK"
FAMILY HOME 1838-1847
DID HIS EARLIEST WRITING AND
COMPLETED FIRST TWO BOOKS
HERE; "TYPEE" AND "OMOO"
Location: IN FRONT OF NO. 2 114TH ST. IN NORTH TROY
ON THIS SITE
THE FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP
IN TROY WAS ERECTED - 1792
BY THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
PRESENT CHURCH BUILT 1836
Location: ON THE CORNER OF CONGRESS & 1ST STS. IN TROY

County: RICHMOND
Town: NONE

BATTLE HILL
SITE OF INDIAN VILLAGE
ATTACKED BY DUTCH 1643
AND OF BRITISH REDOUBT
DURING THE REVOLUTION
Location: ON CORNER OF WESTERN AND WASHINGTON AVE.
BURIAL PLACE
OF THE DUTCH SETTLERS OF
THE NORTH SHORE UNTIL 1696
AROUND WHICH PORT RICHMOND
WAS BUILT
Location: ON RICHMOND AV. BETWEEN RAILROAD AND RICHMOND TER.
CONFERENCE HOUSE
WHERE BENJ. FRANKLIN, JOHN
ADAMS & ED. RUTLEDGE MET
IN PARLEY WITH LORD HOWE
AND SIR HENRY STRAKEY
SEPTEMBER 11, 1776
IN 1695 A
FRENCH CHURCH
STOOD NEAR THIS SPOT
THEN THE ONLY CHURCH
ON STATEN ISLAND
Location: ON ARTHUR KILL ROAD BETWEEN GIFFORD'S LAND AND RICHMOND AVE.
OLD TOWN
FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT
MADE ON STATEN ISLAND 1661
BY PIERRE BILLIOU & OTHERS
WITH PERMISSION OF THE
DUTCH WEST INDIA COMPANY
Location: ON CORNER OF OLD TOWN ROAD
ON THIS SPOT STOOD AN
ENGLISH CHURCH
(PRESBYTERIAN) FROM 1729-1769
Location: ON RICHMOND ROAD
PERINE HOUSE
LAND PAT. SEPT. 1677 TO THOM.
STILLWELL PREVIOUSLY COVERED BY
DUTCH GROUND BRIEFS TO PIERRE
BILLIOU AND HANS CHRISTOFEL
Location: ON RICHMOND ROAD
SIGNAL HILL
USED AS SIGNAL STATION
SINCE 1641. NEARBY
FORTIFICATIONS REBUILT 1812
SITE OF
FORT
KNYPHAUSEN
OCCUPIED BY BRITISH IN REVOLUTION
THE CHRISTOPHER HOUSE
ERECTED ABOUT 1750. HOME OF
JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER, DURING
REVOLUTION, TRADITIONALLY, MEETING
PLACE OF S.I. PATRIOTS
Location: ABOUT 200 FT. FROM WILLOWBROOK RD. AND VICTORY BUILDING

County: ROCKLAND
Town: ORANGETOWN, TOWN OF

"'76 HOUSE"
WHERE MAJOR JOHN ANDRE,
BRITISH SPY, PLOTTER WITH
ARNOLD TO DELIVER WEST
POINT, WAS CONFINED
BEFORE HIS EXECTUION
Location: MAIN & WASHINGTON STS. IN TAPPAN
DE WINDT HOUSE
WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS
SETP. 28 - OCT. 2, 1780
DURING THE TRIAL OF ANDRE,
BRITISH SPY, PLOTTER
WITH BENEDICT ARNOLD
Location: OAK TREE RD. IN TAPPAN
GENERAL LAFAYETTE
LIVED HERE IN A HOUSE ON
THE BOGART FARM IN 1780.
OPPOSITE IS SPRING USED
BY CONTINENTAL ARMY
CAMPED ON THE WEST RIDGE
Location: WESTERN HWY. IN TAPPAN
THE MANSE
BUILT 1726, DOMINIE SAMUEL
VERBRYCK LIVED HERE DURING
REVOLUTION. HE WAS FRIEND OF
WASHINGTON. HE FOUNDED RUTGERS
COLLEGE, N. J.
Location: WESTWOOD-OLD TAPPAN RD., W. OF GREENBUSG RD., IN TAPPAN
TRIAL OF ANDRE
THE BRITISH SPY, ANDRE,
WAS FOUND GUILTY, IN
THE DUTCH CHURCH WHICH
STOOD, IN 1780, ON THE
SITE OF THIS EDIFICE
Location: MAIN ST., NORTH OF WASHINGTON ST. IN TAPPAN
TURN LEFT AT LIGHT
DEWINDT HOUSE
GEORGE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS
SEPT. 28 - OCT. 2, 1780
Location: ON US 9W S. OF OAK TREE RD.
WASHINGTON'S CAMP
ON THE RIDGE WEST, 1782,
THE AMERICAN ARMY, AFTER
ITS RETURN FROM YORKTOWN,
ENCAMPED UNDER GENERALS
WASHINGTON AND GREENE
Location: WESTERN HWY. & WASHINGTON AVE. IN TAPPAN
[ARROW]
ANDRE MONUMENT
ON THE HILL SOUTH IS THE
SITE OF THE GALLOWS WHERE
MAJOR JOHN ANDRE, BRITISH
SPY, WAS HANGED, AND
BURIED, ON OCT. 2, 1780.
Location: SUMMIT AVE. & OLD TAPPAN RD. IN TAPPAN
[ARROW]
2 MILES
DE WINDT HOUSE
GEORGE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS
SET. 28 - OCT. 2, 1780
Location: ON US 9W AT OAK TREE RD.

County: ROCKLAND
Town: STONY POINT, TOWN OF

"WORK I"
A BRITISH REDOUBT MOUNTING
A TWELVE-POUND CANNON WAS
LOCATED HERE, JULY 1779.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
AMERICAN BLOCKHOUSE
HERE STOOD AN UNFINISHED
AMERICAN BLOCKHOUSE WHICH
WAS BURNED BY ITS DEFENDERS
ON MAY 31, 1779, WHEN THE
BRITISH SEIZED THE POINT
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
BUCKBERG MOUNTAIN
HERE GENERALS WASHINGTON
AND WAYNE, SURVEYED THE
BRITISH FORT ON STONY
POINT AND PLANNED THE
VICTORY OF JULY 15-16, 1779.
Location: BUCKBERG MT. RD., 1/2 MI. S. MOTT RD.
BUCKBERG MOUNTAIN ROAD
IN 1776-1783, THIS WAS AN
IMPORTANT MILITARY ROUTE
OVER THE DUNDERBERG TO
DOODLETOWN, FORTS CLINTON
AND MONTGOMERY AND WEST POINT.
Location: BUCKBERG RD., W. OF US 9W
CHRISTIAN FEBIGER,
A DANE, COLONEL OF THE
SECOND REGIMENT OF THE
LIGHT INFANTRY UNDER
WAYNE, LED THE MAIN
BODY IN THE RIGHT COLUMN
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
COLONEL BUTLER
OF PENNSYLVANIA, LED
THE LEFT ASSULTING
COLUMN OF AMERICANS
UP THE STEEP SLOPE
AT THIS POINT
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
DOODLETOWN
HALF A MILE UP THIS ROAD
IS DOODLETOWN, PIONEER
HAMLET THROUGH WHICH THE
BRITISH ARMY MARCHED TO
ATTACK FT. CLINTON, 1777.
Location: US 9W AT DOODLETOWN RD.
FRANCO-AMERICAN ARMY
EN ROUTE TO CAPTURE
CORNWALLIS AT YORKTOWN, IN
VIRGINIA, CROSSED KING'S
FERRY IN AUGUST, 1781.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
GENERAL WAYNE
WAS WOUNDED BY THE
BRITISH GRAPESHOT
LEADING THE RIGHT
COLUMN UP THE SLOPE
NEAR THIS POINT.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
KING'S FERRY
BELOW THIS HILL IS LOCATED
THE WESTERN TERMINUS OF
HISTORIC KING'S FERRY OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
1776-1783.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
LIEUT. KNOX
AT THE HEAD OF THE
FORLORN HOPE OF THE LEFT
COLUMN ENTERED THE MAIN
BRITISH REDOUBT AT
THIS POINT
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
LIEUT.-COL. FLEURY
WHO CAME FROM FRANCE
WITH LAFAYETTE, LED A PICKED
ADVANCE CORPS INTO THE
FORT, AT THIS PART
OF THE RAMPARTS
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
MAJOR MURFREE
WITH MASSACHUSETTS AND
NORTH CAROLINA COMPANIES
ENGAGED BRITISH OUTPOST
HERE BY FIRING TO COVER
THE TWO FLANK MOVEMENTS
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
MILITARY ROAD
LEADING TO THE CENTRAL
BRITISH REDOUBT FOLLOWED
THIS ROUTE, 1779
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
SIX STATES
PENNSYLVANIA, CONNECTICUT,
MASSACHUSETTS, MARYLAND,
VIRGINIA AND NORTH
CAROLINA, GAVE THE MEN OF
THE LIGHT INFANTRY.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
THE FINAL COMBAT,
A HAND TO HAND MELEE,
AMERICAN BAYONETS AGAINST
BRITISH MUSKETRY AND
CANNON, TOOK PLACE IN THE
CENTRAL REDOUBT HERE.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
THE FIRST ROAD
ACROSS HUDSON HIGHLANDS
FROM STONY POINT TO
CENTRAL VALEY, MADE ABOUT
1760, VIA CEDAR PONDS
FOLLOWED THIS ROAD
Location: US 9W & MAIN ST., IN STONY POINT
THE INNER LINE
OF THE BRITISH ABATIS OF
TREE TRUNKS AND SHARPENED
STAKES RAN FROM THE NORTH
TO THE SOUTH SHORE OF THE
POINT HERE.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
THE LARGER BODY
OF AMERICANS, IN THE
RIGHT COLUYMN, UNDER GEN.
WAYNE, CROSSED THE MARSH
AND COVE TO THE SOUTH
TO SCALE BRITISH WORKS
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
THE LEFT COLUMN
OF THE AMERICANS DIVIDED
HERE, AT MUD BRIDGE, THE
MAIN BODY, UNDER COLONEL
BUTLER, MARCHING AROUND
THE NORTH SHORE
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
THE MAIN GATE
OF THE CENTRAL
BRITISH REDOUBT
WAS LOCATED HERE,
1779.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
THE OUTER LINE
OF THE ABATIS OF FELLED
TREES AND POINTED STAKES
MADE BY THE BRITISH
GARRISON CROSSED HERE
FROM SHORE TO SHORE
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
TWO COMPANIES
OF THE SEVENTEENTH BRITISH
REGIMENT OF FOOT WERE
STATIONED HERE AT
THE TIME OF THE ASSAULT,
JULY 15, 1779.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
WORK "H"
A BRITISH REDOUBT MOUNTING
A TWELVE-POUND CANNON WAS
LOCATED HERE, JULY, 1779.
Location: IN STONY POINT PARK
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STONY POINT
BATTLEFIELD
JULY 16, 1779
Location: US 9W, 1/4 MI. NO. OF VLGE. STONY POINT
[ARROW]
STONY POINT
BATTLEFIELD
JULY 16, 1779
Location: US 9W. 1/2 MI. NO. OF STONY POINT VILLAGE
[ARROW]
STONY POINT
BATTLEFIELD
JULY 16, 1779
Location: ON PARK RD., E. OF US 9W
[ARROW]
STONY POINT
BATTLEFIELD
JULY 16, 1779
Location: ON PARK RD., E. OF US 9W

County: SARATOGA
Town: BALLSTON, TOWN OF

BALLSTON FORT
SITE OF LOG MEETING HOUSE
BUILT 1772
SURROUNDED BY HIGH
STACKADE DURING REVOLUTION
Location: ON FRONT ST., BALLSTON SPA
COLONIAL INN
THIS BUILDING
ERECTED IN 1797
FOR MANY YEARS A
PUBLIC TAVERN
Location: ON CO. RD. RD. OFF WEST HIGH STREET
END OF NORTHWEST PASSAGE
ON THE HUDSON RIVER NEARBY
HUDSON'S EXPLORING BOAT WAS STOPPED
BY SHALLOW WATER
SEPTEMBER 22, 1609
HOME OF
ELIPHALET BALL
FOUNDER OF BALLSTON
BORN 1722
DIED HERE 1797
Location: ON NYS 50 ABOUT 3MIS. S. OF BALLSTON SPA
HOME OF JAMES GORDON
COLONEL REVOLUTIONARY WAR
MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY, STATE SENATOR
FIRST SUPERVISOR TOWN BALLSTON
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON VISITED HERE 1783
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3/4 MI. NORTH OF BALLSTON CENTER
HOME OF JOHN W. TAYLOR
MEMBER OF CONGRESS 1813-33
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES 1821-1827
STATE SENATOR 1840
Location: ON NYS 67 AT BALLSTON SPA
HOME OF SAMUEL YOUNG
MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY 1814
SPEAKER OF ASSEMBLY 1815
STATE SENATOR 1819, 33,34,45,47
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF
N.Y., 1824. DIED HERE 1850
Location: ON NYS 50 ABOUT 3 MIS. SOUTH OF BALLSTON SPA
MCDONALDS
BALLSTON-SARATOGA MINERAL
SPRINGS WERE REVEALED TO
WHITE MEN BY MICHAEL
AND NICHOLAS MCDONALD
ABOUT 1765
Location: ON FRONT ST., BALLSTON SPA
MCDONALDS
AT SHORE OF BALLSTON LAKE
1/2 MILE FROM THIS SPOT
MICHAEL & NICHOLAS MCDONALD
BUILT FIRST CABIN IN THIS
SECTION OF STATE IN 1763
Location: ON CO RD. ABOUT 3/4 MILE S. OF BALLSTON CENTER
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
FOUNDED 1775 BY REV.
ELIPHALET BALL. PRESENT
EDIFICE ERECTED DURING
PASTORATE OF REV. CHARLES
H. TAYLOR, 1854-61
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF CO. RDS. AT BALLSTON CENTER
SITE OF
FIRST COURT HOUSE AND JAIL
OF SARATOGA COUNTY
ERECTED 1796
DESTROYED BY FIRE, 1816
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. S.W. OF BALLSTON SPA
SITE OF
OLD STOCKADED FORT
USED AS A REFUGE BY
THE PATRIOTS AGAINST
INVASION FROM THE NORTH
Location: ON NYS 50 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF BALLSTON SPA
SITE OF
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
FIRST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN SARATOGA COUNTY
ERECTED 1792
REMOVED TO BALLSTON SPA 1817
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE SOUTH OF BALLSTON CENTER
SITE OF HOME
BERIAH PALMER
SUPERVISOR BALLSTON 1790-01
MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY 1793-95
MEMBER CONGRESS 1803-05
SURROGATE SARATOGA COUNTY
1808 - 12
Location: ON NYS 146A NEAR INTERSECTION WITH NYS 50
THIS BUILDING
WAS A PUBLIC INN
DURING THE REVOLUTION.
WILLIAM BETTYS, PROPIETOR
Location: ON NYS 50 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. N.E. OF BURNT HILLS
TOWN OF BALLSTON
NAMED FOR ELIPHALET BALL
FORMED FROM SARATOGA AS A
DISTRICT APRIL 1, 1775
ORGANIZED AS A TOWN
MARCH 7, 1788
Location: ON NYS 339 AT BURNT HILLS

County: SARATOGA
Town: CRESENT, TOWN OF

CRESCENT
NAMED FROM CRESCENT SHAPE
OF MOHAWK RIVER AT THIS POINT.
SITE OF INDIAN CARRY FROM
MOHAWK RIVER TO HUDSON RIVER.
SITE OF OLD CRESCENT BRIDGE.
Location: ON BANK OF MOHAWK NEAR US 9 AT CRESCENT

County: SARATOGA
Town: MOREAU, TOWN OF

[ARROW]
ON THE BROW OF THE HILL
ROYAL BLOCKHOUSE
BUILT DURING
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Location: ON NYS 197 AT APPROACH TO BRIDGE TO FORT EDWARD

County: SARATOGA
Town: NORTHUMBERLAND, TOWN OF

BRITISH OVENS
IN THE HILL ON THE LEFT
WERE TWO LARGE OVENS
USED BY THE BRITISH ARMY
WHILE ENCAMPED ON
ADJOINING FLATS
Location: ON BACON HILL-FORT EDWARD COUNTY ROAD
FORT MILLER
BUILT BY COL. MILLER
JULY 1755
Location: ON BACON HILL-FORT EDWARD COUNTY ROAD
GENERAL STARK
HELD THIS POSITION TO PREVENT
BRITISH RETREAT TO NORTH
Location: ON US 4 AT NORTHUMBERLAND
HOME OF
COL. SIDNEY BERRY
SERVED IN REVOLUTION;
FIRST SURROGATE OF COUNTY;
FIRST SUPERVISOR OF TOWN
Location: ON BACON HILL-FORT EDWARD COUNTY ROAD
HOME OF
JOHN MCCREA
BROTHER OF JANE MCCREA
WHO WAS KILLED BY
INDIANS JULY 27, 1777
Location: ON BACON HILL-FORT EDWARD COUNTRY ROAD
HOME OF
CAPTAIN MARTIN JOHN BURKE
B. 1816 - D. 1847
GRADUATED FROM WEST POINT
1836; WAS KILLED IN WAR
WITH MEXICO AUG. 20, 1847
Location: ON NYS 32 AT BACON HILL

County: SARATOGA
Town: SARATOGA NATL. HISTORICAL PK.

AMERICAN ENTRENCHMENTS
BATTLES OF
SEPT. 19 - OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
AMERICAN ENTRENCHMENTS
BATTLES OF
SEPT. 19 - OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
AMERICAN PICKETS
HELD THIS HIGH GROUND
SOUTH OF MIDDLE RAVINE
BETWEEN THE BATTLES OF
SEPT. 19 AND OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
AMERICAN PICKETS
HELD THIS HIGH GROUND
SOUTH OF MIDDLE RAVINE
BETWEEN THE BATTLES OF
SEPT. 19 AND OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BATTLE FIELD
CEMETERY
HERE LIES THE DUST OF
AMERICAN HEROES WHO DIED
THAT THE UNITED STATES
MIGHT BE BORN
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BATTLE WELL
SOUGHT BY THE WOUNDED
OF BOTH ARMIES
SCENE OF MUCH SUFFERING
AFTER THE BATTLES OF 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BREYMANN REDOUBT
LASR ENGAGEMENT OF
BATTLE OF OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BRITISH ENTRENCHMENTS
ON BREYMANN REDOUBT
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BRITISH PICKETS
HELD THIS HIGH GROUND
NORTH OF THE MIDDLE RAVINE
BETWEEN THE BATTLES OF
SEPT. 19 AND OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BRITISH PICKETS
HELD THIS HIGH GROUND
NORTH OF MIDDLE RAVINE
BETWEEN THE BATTLES OF
SEPT. 19 AND OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BRITSIH CENTER
OCTOBER 7, 1777
GENERAL RIEDESEL
BRUNSWICKERS
CAPTAIN PAUSCH
BATTERY OF 6 POUNDERS
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BRITSIH LEFT
OCT. 7, 1777
MAJOR ACLAND
GRENADIERS
MAJOR WILLIAMS
ROYAL ARTILLERY
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BRITSIH RIGHT
OCT. 7, 1777
LIGHT INFANTRY
EARL OF BALCARRAS
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BURGOYNE BRIDGE
BUILT BY THE INVADING
ARMY OF BURGOYNE
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
GEN. MORGAN'S RIFLE CORPS
ATTACKED THE BRITISH REDOUBT
AFTER WIDE FLANK MOVEMENT
BEHIND THE REDOUBT
TO THE WEST
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
GENERAL DEARBORN'S
LIGHT INFANTRY
LEFT DIVISION
AMERICAN ATTACK ON
BRITISH LINE OF BATTLE
OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
GENERAL LEARNED'S BRIGADE
N. Y. AND MASS. REGIMENTS
CENTER DIVISION
AMERICAN ATTACK ON
BRITISH LINE OF BATTLE
OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
GENERAL POOR'S BRIGADE
N. H. AND N. Y. REGIMENTS
RIGHT DIVISION
AMERICAN ATTACK ON
BRITISH LINE OF BATTLE
OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
GREAT REDOUBT
SCENE OF FIGHTING OF
FIRST BATTLE
HELD BY BRITISH AGAINST
ATTACKS BY ARNOLD IN
BATTLE OF OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
HEADQUARTERS
OF GEN. ARNOLD
BATTLES OF
SEPT. 19 - OCT. 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
MAJOR ACLAND
MADE PRISONER
OCT. 7, 1777
FOUGHT DUEL IN DEFENSE
OF VALOUR OF AMERICANS
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
MIDDLE RAVINE
SEPARATING HOSTILE ARMIES
BETWEEN THE
BATTLES OF SARATOGA
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
OLD POWDER
MAGAZINE
BATTLES OF SARATOGA 1777
RESTORED WITH ORIGINAL
STONE ON EXACT SITE
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
ON THIS SPOT
FRANCIS CLERKE
AIDE-DE-CAMP TO BURGOYNE
FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED
OCTOBER 7, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
BLOCK HOUSE
SITE OF FORT NEILSON
VISITORS WELCOME
8:30 A.M. TO 5:30 P.M.
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
ROAD TO THE
MIDDLE RAVINE
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
SITE OF THE ORIGINAL
FREEMAN HOUSE
CENTER OF RIGHT DIVISION
OF BRITISH ARMY AFTER
BATTLE OF SEPT. 19, 1777
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
THE SHOT THAT KILLED
GEN. FRASER
OCT. 7, 1777
WAS FIRED FROM NEAR HERE
BY TIMOTHY MURPHY
OF MORGAN'S RIFLEMEN.
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
TO THE EAST
BURGONYNE'S
HEADQUARTERS
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
TO THE NORTH IS BREYMANN
REDOUBT
THE WESTMOST POINT OF THE
BRITISH ENTRENCHED CAMP.
CAPTURED BY THE AMERICANS
ON OCT. 7 WHEN ARNOLD WAS
SEVERELY WOUNDED
Location: SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

County: SARATOGA
Town: SARATOGA SPRINGS, TOWN OF

BRYAN HOME
ERECTED 1832 ON THE SITE OF
THE LOG CABIN INN OF ALEXANDER
BRYAN REVOLUTIONARY SCOUT
Location: ON US 9 & NYS 50, SARATOGA SPRINGS

County: SARATOGA
Town: SARATOGA, TOWN OF

BREASTWORKS
OF
GENERAL BURGOYNE
Location: ON NYS 29 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
BREASTWORKS
OF
COLONEL MORGAN
Location: ON NYS 338 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
BREASTWORKS
OF
GENERAL LEARNED
Location: IN SCHOOL YARD, VICTORY MILLS
CAMP OF
CONTINENTAL TROOPS
UNDER GENERAL GATES
EAST ACROSS FISH CREEK
Location: ON US 4 S. OF SCHUYLERVILLE
COLONEL MORGAN
HELD THIS POSITION TO PREVENT
BRITISH RETREAT TO WEST
Location: ON NYS 29 ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF SCHUYLERVILLE
COLONEL MORGAN
HELD THIS POSITION TO PREVENT
BRITISH RETREAT TO WEST
Location: ON NYS 338 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
COLONEL MORGAN
CROSSED CREEK HERE
AS ASSAULTED
BRITISH CAMP
Location: ON US 4 AT VICTORY MILLS
COLONIAL AND
REVOLUTIONARY
FORDING PLACE
Location: ON US 4 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
DERIDDER
HORSE FERRY
Location: ON NYS 29 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
FIRST BRIDGE
HERE BORE STONE TABLET
NOW BURIED IN ROADWAY
READING "THE UNION-
IT MUST BE PRESERVED.
GEN'L JACKSON. A.D. 1834"
Location: ON NYS 29 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
LEARNED, GLOVER,
NIXON
CROSSED CREEK HERE
TO SUPPORT
COLONEL MORGAN
Location: ON US 4 AT VICTORY MILLS
LINES OCCUPIED BY
BURGOYNE'S
GERMAN AND CANADIAN
FORCES
Location: ON NYS 29 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
ON THESE FIELDS
THE BRITISH ARMY
GROUNDED ARMS
AT THE SURRENDER
Location: ON NYS 29 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
POSITION OF
FRASER'S CORPS
BRITISH LIGHT TROOPS
OCTOBER 10 TO 17
1777
Location: ON US 4 S. OF SCHUYLERVILLE
SITE OF
FORT VROOMAN 1689
FORT SARATOGA 1702
REBUILT BY PHILIP LIVINGSTON 1721
FORT CLINTON 1746
REBUILT AND NAMED FOR GOVERNOR
Location: ON SCHUYLERVILLE-COVEVILLE COUNTRY ROAD
SITE OF
HOME OF
GENERAL SCHUYLER
BURNED BY BURGOYNE
1777
Location: ON SCHUYLERVILLE-COVEVILLE COUNTY ROAD
SITE OF
WHEATFIELDS
BURNED BY
CATHERINE SCHUYLER
WHEN AMERICAN SETTLERS FLED
BEFORE BURGOYNE'S ADVANCE
Location: ON SCHUYLERVILLE-COVEVILLE COUNTY ROAD
SITE OF
SURRENDER OF
GENERAL BURGOYNE
TO GENERAL GATES
OCTOBER 17, 1777
Location: ON SCHUYLERVILLE-COVEVILLE COUNTY ROAD
SITE OF
CAMP OF
GENERAL BURGOYNE
OCTOBER 10TH TO 17TH
1777
Location: ON NYS 29 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
SITE OF
GENERAL GATES
HEADQUARTERS
PREVIOUS TO SURRENDER OF
GENERAL BURGOYNE
OCT. 17, 1777
Location: ON SCHUYLERVILLE-COVEVILLE COUNTY ROAD
SITE OF
DOVEGAT HOUSE
HEADQUARTERS GENERAL BURGOYNE
DURING ADVANCE AND RETREAT
OF BRITISH ARMY
Location: ON SCHUYLERVILLE-COVEVILLE COUNTY ROAD
SITE OF
FIRST
FLAX AND LINEN MILL
IN AMERICA
BUILT 1810
Location: ON US 4 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
SITE OF
OLDEST COTTON MILL
IN
NEW YORK STATE
BUILT 1828
Location: ON SCHUYLERVILLE-COVEVILLE COUNTY ROAD
SITE OF
CAMP OF
GENERAL BURGOYNE
OCT. 10 TO 17
1777
Location: ON US 4 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
SITE OF
FORT HARDY
1757
Location: ON NYS 29 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
SITE OF
CONTINENTAL
BARRACKS
WHERE GENERAL STARK TRIED AND
CONDEMNED THE TORY LOVELACE
AS A SPY
Location: ON NYS 29 AT SCHUYLERVILLE
SITE OF
CAMP OF
GENERAL LEARNED
BEFORE SURRENDER OF
GENERAL BURGOYNE
Location: ON TOWN RD., VICTORY MILLS
TRENCHES
OF
BURGOYNE'S ARMY
Location: ON US 4 AT VICTORY MILLS

County: SARATOGA
Town: STILLWATER, TOWN OF

DIRCK SWART HOUSE
HEADQUARTERS AUG. 3-14, 1777 OF
GEN. PHILIP SCHUYLER
ARNOLD MARCHED FROM HERE TO
RELIEF OF FORT STANWIX
Location: ON US 4 AT STILLWATER
FERRY LANE
OCT. 1777 BURGOYNE'S BRUNSWICK
TROOPS MARCHED THROUGH THIS
LANE TO VANDENBURGH FERRY AND
PRISON CAMP AT CAMPBRIDGE, MASS.
Location: ON US 4 AT STILLWATER
HISTORIC SITES
FORT INGOLDSBY BUILT 1709
FORT WINSLOW BUILT 1756
MONTRESSOR'S BLOCKHOUSE &
STOREHOUSE BARRACKS 1758
SCHUYLER'S SUPPLY DEPOT 1777
Location: ON US 4 AT STILLWATER
ON THE WOODED HILL
TO THE LEFT STAND
EARTHWORKS
THROWN UP BY AMER. ARMY
BEFORE BATTLE OF SARATOGA
1777
Location: ON US 4 AT STILLWATER
SITE OF
HARMANUS SCHUYLER
MANSION
WASHINGTON, SCHUYLER AND CLINTON
WERE ENTERTAINED HERE IN
1783
Location: ON US 4 AT STILLWATER

County: SARATOGA
Town: WATERFORD, TOWN OF

FONDA ROAD
COLONIAL MILITARY
ROUTE
Location: ON WASHINGTON AVE. NEAR BARGE CANAL YARDS, WATERFORD
HALFMOON FORT
1689
DEFENSE OUTPOST OF ALBANY
SITE OF "YE HALFMOON"
SETTLEMENT, 1764
ON "GREAT ROAD" TO CANADA
Location: ON US 4 1 MILE NORTH OF BOAD ST., WATERFORD
UP COUNTRY
ERECTED 1830 BY WILLIAM
PUNDERSON MANSFIELD.
HOME OF LEWIS W. MANSFIELD
AUTHOR OF UP COUNTRY LETTERS,
MORNING WATCH AND
COUNTRY MARGINS
Location: ON SARATOGA AVE., WATERFORD
WATER FORD
A COLONIAL FORD ACROSS
THE MOHAWK RIVER FROM
WHICH WATERFORD DERIVES
ITS NAME
Location: NEAR SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BROAD & SECOND STS., WATERFORD
WATERFORD
1794
OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY
INCORPORATED VILLAGE
IN NEW YORK STATE
Location: ON US 4 4/5 MILE NORTH OF BROAD ST., WATERFORD
WATERFORD
1794
OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY
INCORPORATED VILLAGE
IN NEW YORK STATE
Location: IN PARK, BROAD & FIRST STS. AT WATERFORD
WATERFORD
1794
OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY
INCORPORATED VILLAGE
IN NEW YORK STATE
Location: IN FLATIRON PARK, BROAD & SIXTH STS., WATERFORD
WHITE HOMESTEAD
ERECTED 1830 BY HUGH WHITE
WHO HELPED DEVELOP COHOES
POWER AND INDUSTRY; R.R.
BUILDER; CONGRESSMAN; BROTHER
OF CANVASS WHITE, C.E.,
BUILDER OF ERIE CANAL
Location: ON SARATOGA AVE., WATERFORD

County: SARATOGA
Town: WILTON, TOWN OF

BATTLE OF WILTON
FEBRUARY 17, 1693
BRITISH FORCE OF 250
WHITES & 290 INDIANS
ENGAGED FRENCH & INDIAN
FORCE OF "600 OR 700" MEN
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF KINGS STATION
GRANT COTTAGE
ENTRANCE TO COTTAGE
ON MOUNT MCGREGOR
SPLENID PANORAMA KNOWN
AS "GRANT'S LAST VIEW"
Location: ON US 9 AT WILTON
GRANT COTTAGE
ENTRANCE TO COTTAGE
ON MOUNT MCGREGOR
SPLENID PANORAMA KNOWN
AS "GRANT'S LAST VIEW"
Location: ON COUNTY RD. LEADING TO COTTAGE ON MT. MCGREGOR
GRANT COTTAGE
APPROACHING ROAD ON LEFT
TO HOUSE ON
MOUNT MCGREGOR WHERE
ULYSSES S. GRANT
DIED JULY 23, 1885
Location: ON US 9 AT WILTON
GRANT COTTAGE
APPROACHING ROAD TO HOUSE
ON MOUNT MCGREGOR WHERE
ULYSSES S. GRANT
DIED JULY 23, 1885
Location: ON US 9 AT WILTON
ULYSSES S. GRANT
LIVED HERE
DURING HIS LAST DAYS
JUNE 16 TO JULY 23, 1885
AND COMPLETED HIS
PERSONAL MEMOIRS
Location: ON LAWN IN FRONT OF COTTAGE ON MOUNT MCGREGOR

County: SCHENECTADY
Town: DUANESBURG, TOWN OF

BAPTIST CHURCH
SOCIETY ORGANIZED 1800
UNITING DUANESBURG & FLORIDA
BAPTISTS - 1ST MINISTERS-ELDERS
REUBEN MUDGE, ELNATHAN FINCH
PRESENT EDIFICE BUILT 1868
Location: ON NYS 30 AT BRAMAN CORNERS
CHRIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
BUILT 1792 CONSECRATED 1793
BY BISHOP SAMUEL PROVOOST
A GLEBE OF 80 ACRES PRESENTED
BY JAMES DUANE FOR RECTORY
Location: ON US 20 ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF DUANESBURG
COUNTY LINE
MEETING HOUSE
ERECTED HERE ABOUT 1800
IT WAS USED BY ALL
DENOMINATIONS WORSHIPING
IN THE VICINITY.
Location: ON CO. RD. N. OF EATON CRNRS. SCHENECTADY-MONTGOMERY CO. LINE
DUANE MANSION
ERECTED IN 1812, BY CATHERINE
LIVINGSTON DUANE, YOUNGEST
DAUGHTER OF HON. JAMES DUANE.
GROUNDS PLANNED BY JACQUES
RAMEE, NOTED FRENCH ARTIST
Location: ON US 2 ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF DUANESBURG
FRIENDS
MEETING HOUSE
ERECTED 1807 NEAR SITE
OF ORIGINAL LOG STRUCTURE
1ST PREACHER - EZEKIEL TRIPP
SOCIETY ORGANIZED ABOUT 1790
Location: ON NYS 7 AT QUAKER STREET
FROST HOMESTEAD
THIS HOUSE WAS BUILT
BY JAMES FROST IN 1834,
USING RECLAIMED PORTIONS
FROM THE FEATHERSTONHAUGH
MANSION BUILT IN 1808
Location: ON NYS 159 AT MARIAVILLE
JAMES DUANE
BORN 1732 BURIED HERE 1797
IN CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
PROVINCIAL CONVENTION
MAYOR OF NEW YORK, STATE
SENATOR, FEDERAL JUDGE
Location: ON US 20 ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF DUANESBURG
NEAR SITE OF OLD
SHERBURNE TANNERY
EST. BY JOHN SHERBURNE
ABOUT 1790. AFTER CLEARING
LAND THE BUSINESS BROUGHT
HIM OVER $100,000
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARIAVILLE
OLD MILL SITE
HERE AFTER REVOLUTION
WERE BUILT A SAWMILL AND
GRISTMILL. ABANDONED
LATER BECAUSE FRESHETS
TORE DAMS AWAY OFTEN
Location: ON CLINE FARM NEAR EATON CRNRS.
OLD SHOP SITE
WHERE BENJAMIN CUMMINGS
FOUNDER OF CUMMINGS HOLLOW
FORGED FIRST CIRCULAR SAW
IN AMERICA IN 1814 FOR HIS
SCHENECTADY MILL
Location: ON CLINE FARM NEAR EATON CRNRS.
PIONEER BAPTIST
OF SCHENECTADY COUNTY
REV. ELIJAH HERRICK, 1ST TO
PREACH IN DUANESBURG AFTER
SERVICE IN REVOLUTION. AT
CHARLESTON SERVED 50 YEARS
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARIAVILLE
SITE OF
POST OFFICE & STORE
ESTABLISHED ABOUT 1820 BY
LEMUEL EASTON AND RUN FOR
YEARS. HE BROUGHT THE MAIL
EACH SATURDAY ON HORSEBACK
FROM AMSTERDAM
Location: AT EATON CORNERS
SOCIETY OF THE REFORMED
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
ORG. 1795 BY REV. MCKINNEY,
1ST MINISTERS: REV.
MCMASTER, WYLIE, & RAMSAY.
PRESENT EDIFICE BUILT 1836
Location: ON US 20 ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF DUANESBURG
WILLIAM NORTH
BORN 1755 BURIED HERE 1836
AIDE TO STEUBEN IN 1779
GENERAL IN U.S. ARMY
SON IN LAW OF JAMES DUANE
ASSEMBLYMAN AND SPEAKER
Location: ON US 20 ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF DUANESBURG

County: SCHENECTADY
Town: GLENVILLE, TOWN OF

A FORMER LAKE
JUST NORTH OF THESE GRAVEL
KNOLLS IS THE BASIN OF A
POSTGLACIAL LAKE. HERE MEN
OF AN ARCTIC TYPE ONCE
LIVED AND HUNTED
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3/4 MI. WEST OF GLENVILLE
A NOTABLE HOME
HERE ABOUT 1720 STOOD
THE FIRST HOUSE IN THIS
PART OF THE VALLEY,
HOME OF SEVEN GENERATIONS
OF THE VAN EPS FAMILY
Location: ON NYS 5 AT HOFFMANS
ABRAHAM GLEN
HOUSE 1730
BUILT BY ABRAHAM GLEN
WHERE KING'S HIGHWAY
LEFT MOHAWK RIVER
Location: ON MOHAWK AVE. IN SCOTIA
AN EARLY HOTEL
KNOWN AS "UPPER NICKEY'S"
BUILT AND KEPT BY NICHOLAS
VAN PATTEN IN 18TH CNETURY.
FIRST GLENVILLE TOWN
MEETING HELD HERE IN 1821
Location: ON NYS 147 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES N. OF GLENVILLE CENTER
CEMENT MILL
HERE, 1825-45, STOOD
THE KILN AND MILL OF JOHN
VAN EPS & SONS, MAKING
THE FIRST HYDRAULIC CEMENT
IN THIS PART OF THE STATE
Location: ON NYS 5 NEAR SCHENECTADY-MONTGOMERY CO. LINE
CRABB KILL
ABOUT 1770 EARLY SETTLERS
BUILT A SAWMILL HERE, AND HERE
(1840-1860) WAS THE TANNERY AND
SHOESHOP OF ROCKWELL HARMON
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD AT NORTHEAST EDGE OF GLENVILLE
FALL TREE KILL
NAMED BY THE FIRST
SETTLERS OF THE REGION.
HERE, HIS PRIMITIVE BRIDGE
A FALLEN TREE, THE RED MAN
CROSSED THIS STREAM
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 3/4 MIS. EAST OF GLENVILLE
FIRST CHURCH
IN GLENVILLE
BUILT 1785, HERE STOOD THE
"CHURCH AT THE WOESTINA"
(CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS)
REMOVED TO ROTTERDAM 1812
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT HOFFMANS
FIRST REFORMED
DUTCH CHURCH
OF GLENVILLE, BUILT 1812-
13, REMODELED 1871
SIMON I. VAN PATTEN,
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER
Location: ON CO. ROAD AT GLENVILLE
GLEN-SANDERS HOUSE, 1713
BUILT BY CAPT. JOHANNES
GLEN PARTLY OF MATERIALS
IN FIRST MOHAWK VALLEY
HOUSE BUILT BY ALEXANDER
GLEN, 1655
Location: INTERSECTION OF MOHAWK & SANDERS AVES., SCOTIA
HOFFMANS FERRY
HERE ABOUT 1790 HARMANUS
VEDDER ESTABLISHED A FERRY
WHICH BORE HIS NAME UNTIL
1835 WHEN THE FERRY RIGHTS
WERE BOUGHT BY J. HOFFMAN
Location: ON NYS 5 AT HOFFMANS
JOSIAS SWART
HOMESTEAD
CALLED THE SIXTH FLAT
JOSIAS SWART, B. 1653, RECEIVED
A DEED FROM THE TRUSTEES
OF SCHENECTADY AUGUST 5, 1713.
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES EAST OF HOFFMANS
KINAQUARIONES
SITE OF ARCHAIC ALGONKIAN
VILLAGE; ITS CORN PITS YET
REMAIN. THROUGH THIS VALE
RAN A GREAT AND ANCIENT
PATH, TROD BY MANY RACES
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTHWEST OF HOFFMANS
MOHAWK TURNPIKE
COLONIAL HIGHWAY WESTWARD
TO ST. JOHNSVILLE KNOWN
AS "KING'S HIGHWAY"
MILITARY ROAD 1812
Location: ON MOHAWK AVE., SCOTIA
PRIMITIVE PATH
HERE RAN A GREAT AND WELL-
BEATEN PATH USED BY THE
ARCHAIC ALGONKIAN AND OTHER
NATIONS, GOING BETWEEN THE
SEA COAST AND INTERIOR
Location: ON PRIVATE ROAD ABOUT 1/4 MILE WEST OF GLENVILLE
PRIMITIVE PATH
HERE RAN A GREAT AND WELL-
BEATEN PATH USED BY THE
ARCHAIC ALGONKIAN AND OTHER
NATIONS, GOING BETWEEN THE
SEA COAST AND INTERIOR
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD ABOUT 1 MI. EST OF GLENVILLE
SITE OF
M.E. CHURCH ERECTED 1823.
FIRST PASTOR REV. ROSWELL
KELLY. 1842 ORGANIZATION
REMOVED TO GLENVILLE AND A
NEW BRICK CHURCH BUILT
Location: ON CO. RD. ON MONTGOMERY-SCHENECTADY CO. LINE ABOUT 3/4 MI. SOUTHWEST OF GREEN CORNERS
THE CAMP, 1755-1812
AMERICAN ARMIES CAMPING
GROUND ON MOHAWK RIVER
FLATS WEST OF GLEN-
SANDERS HOUSE
Location: INTERSECTION OF BALSTON & SANDERS AVE. AT SCOTIA
TINKER HILL
SITE OF BLOCKHOUSE NEAR
RIVER BANK, BUILT BY CAPT.
TURNIS SWART. STOCKADED
AND ARMED WITH FIELD PIECE
IN WAR OF REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 1/4 MILE WEST OF HUTCHINSON
VAN VLECK HOME
HERE, ABOUT 1770, HARMANUS
VAN VLECK CLEARED A TRACT
AND BUILT HIS HOUSE IN THE
DENSE FOREST, YET HAUNT OF
THE WOLF, BEAR AND PANTHER
Location: ON COUNTY ROAD AT GLENVILLE
WOLF HOLLOW
A FAULT AND DISPLACEMENT
OF 1000 FEET IN EARTH'S
SURFACE ROCKS. HERE, IN
1669, THE MOHAWKS AMBUSHED
THEIR ALGONKIAN INVADERS
Location: ON CO. ROAD ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF HOFFMANS
WOLF HOLLOW
A FAULT AND DISPLACEMENT
OF 1000 FEET IN EARTH'S
SURFACE ROCKS. HERE, IN
1669, THE MOHAWKS AMBUSHED
THEIR ALGONKIAN INVADERS
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF HOFFMANS

County: SCHENECTADY
Town: NISKAYUNA, TOWN OF

ALBANY PATH
SKA-NEK-TA-DE
TRAIL THROUGH OPEN PINES
WAGON, STAGECOACH AND
MILITARY ROAD, NOW STATE
ST. AND ROUTE 5 TO ALBANY
Location: ON NYS 5 AT EAST LIMITS OF SCHENECTADY
NISKAYUNA DUTCH
REFORMED CHURCH
ERECTED IN 1828
PRECEDED BY AN EDIFICE BUILT
IN 1760 - "GEBED HUIS," HOUSE OF
PRAYER, FIRST BUILDING, ABOUT 1754
Location: ON SCH'DY. - TROY RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF NISKAYUNA

County: SCHENECTADY
Town: PRINCETOWN, TOWN OF

LIDDLE HOUSE
BUILT 1793 BY ROBERT
LIDDLE, EARLY SETTLER OF
DUANESBURGH, WHO CAME
FROM NEW CASTLETON,
ROXBURGSHIRE, SCOTLAND
Location: ON NYS 7 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES EAST OF DUANESBURG

County: SCHENECTADY
Town: ROTTERDAM, TOWN OF

BRADT HOUSE
1735
EARLY TYPE OF DUTCH
FARMHOUSE. TO WEST WAS
WOESTINA (WILDERNESS)
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF ROTTERDAM
JAN MABIE HOUSE 1670
MOST WESTERLY SETTLEMENT
ON GROOTE VLACKTE (GREAT
FLATS). BUILT BY DANIEL
JANSE VAN ANTWERPEN
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/2 MILE E. OF ROTTERDAM JUNCTION
JAN MABIE HOUSE, 1670
OLDEST HOUSE IN MOHAWK
VALLEY, EAST OF THIS
POINT, BUILT BY DANIEL
JANSE VAN ANTWERPEN, 1670
Location: ON NYS 5S ABOUT 1/2 MILE E. OF ROTTERDAM JUNCTION

County: SCHENECTADY
Town: SCHENECTADY, CITY OF

CANADA 1760
AMHERST WITH 6000 AMERI-
CANS 4000 BRITISH & 200
BOATS MARCHED VIA MOHAWK
&OSWEGO TO CAPTURE OF
MONTREAL SEPT. 8, 1760
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF STATE ST. & WASHINGTON AVE.
CLINTON'S EXPEDITION
JUNE 11, 1779 LEFT WITH
1500 MEN & 200 BATTEAUX
FOR SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
AGAINST IROQUOIS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF STATE ST. & WASHINGTON AVE.
EARLY BRIDGE
WOODEN SUSPENSION BRIDGE
ERECTED HERE 1808 DESIGNED
BY THEODORE BURR. USED BY
SARATOGA RY., 1832-39.
REPLACED 1874
Location: AT END OF WASHINGTON AVE.
FREE MASONRY
ST. GEORGE'S LODGE, NO.6
F. & A.M. FOUNDED HERE
1774 AUSPICES OF SIR
JOHN JOHNSON, GRAND
MASTER, NEW YORK COLONY
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF STATE ST. & ERIE BLVD.
JOHN GLEN
HOUSE C. 1765
WASHINGTON OCCUPIED N.E.
BEDROOM SECOND FLOOR
ON FIRST VISIT TO
SCHENECTADY IN 1775
RIDE OF SYMON
SCHERMERHORN
ON NIGHT OF FEB. 8, 1690.
ALTHOUGH WOUNDED HE RODE
20 MILES TO ALBANY
WARNING SETTLERS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF FRONT & CHURCH STS.
ROBERT SANDERS
HOUSE 1750
WASHINGTON VISITED
HERE IN 1775
LATER BECAME SCHENECTADY
FEMALE ACADEMY
Location: ON WASHINGTON AVE.
SCHENECTADY
ACADEMY
ERECTED ON THIS CORNER
BY DUTCH CHURCH 1785
USED BY UNION COLLEGE 1796-
1804. CITY HALL 1805-15
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF FERRY ST. & UNION ST.
SCHENECTADY
SETTLED BY DUTCH UNDER
ARENT VAN CURLER 1661
BOROUGH 1765
CITY 1798
COUNTY SEAT 1808
Location: AT CITY HALL, JAY ST. AND LIBERTY ST.
SITE OF
FIRST MILL
BUILT BY SWEER TEUNSIE ON
MILL KILL 1666. DESTROYED
BY FLOOD 1673 AND REBUILT.
FIRST INDUSTRY OF THE
MOHAWK VALLEY
Location: ON MILL LANE BETWEEN SO. FERRY ST. & STATE ST.
SOUTH SHORE ROAD
COLONIAL-REVOLUTIONARY
ROAD TO FORT STANWIX
AND OSWEGO. ROUTE OF
TROUPS IN FIVE WARS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF STATE ST. & ERIE BLVD.
ST. GEORGE'S
CHURCH 1762
ORGANIZED 1736. PART OF
PRESENT CHURCH BUILT 1759
USED AS BARRACKS
DURING REVOLUTION
Location: ON FERRY ST. BETWEEN UNION & FRONT STS.
UNION COLLEGE
CHARTER GRANTED 1795
PRESENT NORTH AND SOUTH
COLLEGE BUILDINGS ERECTED
1813-14 FROM PLANS
BY JACQUES RAMEE
Location: ON UNION ST. OPPOSITE NOTT TERRACE
YATES HOUSE
REPUTED OLDEST HOUSE
IN CITY. TYPICAL EARLY
18TH CENTURY HOME OF
ABRAHAM YATES
Location: ON UNION ST. BETWEEN CHURCH & FERRY STS.

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: BLENHEIM, TOWN OF

BLENHEIM BRIDGE
LONGEST SINGLE SPAN WOODEN
BRIDGE IN WORLD. BUILT BY
BLENHEIM BRIDGE COMPANY
INCORPORATED 1828. LAST OF
ITS KIND IN THIS REGION
Location: ON NYS 30 AT NO. BLENHEIM
[ARROW]
INDIAN TRAIL
WESTKILL TO DELAWARE RIVER
AND SOUTH TO SUSQUEHANNA
RIVER AND WEST. ONE OF
MANY TRAILS GIVING IROQUOIS
CONTROL OF LARGE AREAS
Location: ON NYS 30 AT NO. BLENHEIM
[ARROW]
MANOR HOUSE
BUILT BY JOHN LANSING
ABOUT 1800. JUSTICE OF
N. Y. SUPREME COURT, 1790-1801.
CHANCELLOR 1801-14. OWNER
PART OF BLENHEIM PATENT
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 3 MIS. S. OF NORTH BLENHEIM
[ARROW]
MANOR HOUSE
BUILT BY JOHN LANSING
ABOUT 1800. JUSTICE OF
N.Y. SUPREME COURT, 1790-1801
CHANCELLOR 1801-14. OWNER
PART OF BLENHEIM
Location: NYS ROUTE 30, 3 MI. SO. OF NORTH BLENHEIM

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: CONESVILLE, TOWN OF

RICHTMYER TAVERN
BUILT IN 1789
FIRST TOWN MEETING WAS
HELD TO FORM THE PRESENT
TOWN OF CONESVILLE, 1836
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. EAST OF CONESVILLE

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: ESPERANCE, TOWN OF

METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
INC. MARCH 1835. ORIGINAL
CHURCH ERECTED 1836. PRESENT
EDIFICE BUILT IN 1868. REV.
S. COLEMAN, FIRST PASTOR
Location: ON US 20 AT ESPERANCE
SITE OF
INDIAN STONE HEAP
KNOWN TO HAVE EXISTED IN 1753
ROUTE TAKEN BY SIR JOHN JOHNSON
FROM SCHOHARIE TO MOHAWK VALLEY
LED PAST THIS MONUMENT
Location: ON NYS 148 ABOUT 1/2 MI. N. OF SLOANSVILLE
SITE OF ENCAMPMENT
OF JOSEPH BRANT, INDIANS
SIR JOHN JOHNSON AND REGU-
LARS ON OCT. 17, 1780
AFTER RAIDING SCHOHARIE &
DESTROYING KNISKERN DORF
Location: ON NYS 148 ABOUT 1 1/4 MIS. S. OF SLOANSVILLE
THE PRESBYTERIAN (OLD STONE)
CHURCH, ESPERANCE, N.Y.
ORGANIZED MAY 4, 1823
EDIFICE DEDICATED JULY 4, 1824
SHELDON JACKSON RECEIVED AS MEMBER
OCT. 2, 1853. REMODELED
AND REDEDICATED JAN. 14, 1897
Location: ON US 20 AT ESPERANCE

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: FULTON, TOWN OF

BOUCK'S ISLAND
HOME OF WILLIAM C. BOUCK
BORN 1786-DIED 1859;
GOVERNOR OF STATE OF
NEW YORK, 1842-44
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 4 MIS. S. OF MIDDLEBURG
SITE OF HOME
TIMOTHY MURPHY
WHERE HE LIVED DURING 1784
AND DIED JUNE 22, 1818,
AGE 67; REVOLUTIONARY SCOUT
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 3 MIS. S. OF MIDDLEBURG
VROMAN'S LAND
PATENT GRANTED AUG. 1714
MANY MINOR ENGAGEMENTS
EARLY IN REVOLUTION TOOK
PLACE NEAR THIS MOUNTAIN,
ONISTAGRAW
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 3/4 MIS. S. OF MIDDLEBURG
[ARROW]
INDIAN TRAIL
WAR ROUTE OF REVOLUTION
PANTHER CREEK TO CHARLOTTE
AND SUSQUENHANNA RIVERS
THENCE TO NIAGARA. USED BY
BRITISH INVADERS OCT. 1780
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT1 MI. N. OF BREAKABEEN
[ARROW]
INDIAN TRAIL
KEYSER TO CATSKILL CREEK
AND HUDSON RIVER, CONNECTING
HUDSON, SCHOHARIE, MOHAWK,
DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA
VALLEYS AND THE WEST
Location: ON NYS 30 AT BREAKABEEN
[ARROW] 500 FT.
SITE OF UPPER VALLEY FORT
HOUSE OF JOHN FEECK WAS
INCLOSED BY LOG STOCKADE
IN REVOLUTION. INCLOSURE
CONTAINED 4 BLOCKHOUSES,
DEWELLING AND EARTHWORKS
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 3 MIS. S. OF MIDDLEBURG

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: JEFFERSON, TOWN OF

JEFFERSON ACADEMY
1812, ONE OF FIRST SCHOOLS
OF ITS KIND BUILT IN SCHOHARIE
COUNTY BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION;
REV. WM. SALSBURY, PRINCIPAL
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT JEFFERSON
UTSAYANTHA LAKE
NAMED AFTER INDIAN MAIDEN
FAMOUS IN INDIAN LEGEND
ON TRAIL FROM SCHOHARIE TO
DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA
RIVERS. HEADWATER OF DEL.
Location: ON NYS 10 AT SCHOHARIE-DELAWARE COUNTY LINE
VILLAGE GREEN
STEPHEN JUDD IN 1817 GAVE
THE DEED TO 108 RODS OF
LAND TO BE USED AS A GENERAL
TRAINING GROUND AND LANDS
FOR THE ACADEMY
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT JEFFERSON
[ARROW]
SITE OF BATTLE
BETWEEN SCHOHARIE MILITIA
UNDER CAPT. JACOB HAGER
OF UPPER FORT AND INDIANS
AND TORIES UNDER CHIEF
BRANT, NOV. 2, 1781
Location: ON NYS 10 ABOUT 1 MI. S. OF SO. JEFFERSON

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: MIDDLEBURG, TOWN OF

HARTMAN'S DORF
FOUNDED 1713 BY
HARTMAN WINEDECKER
AS A HOME FOR PALATINES
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. N. OF MIDDLEBURG
ON THIS SITE DWELT
CAPT. GEORGE RECHTMYER
DEFENDER OF MIDDLE FORT
OCTOBER 17, 1780
IN COMMAND AT FT. DUBOISE
JUNE 3, 1779
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. N. OF MIDDLEBURG
SITE OF
INDIAN COUNCIL
ASSEMBLED HERE 1754 TO
DECIDE WHOM TO SUPPORT DURING
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Location: ON NYS 30 ABOUT 1/2 MI. N. OF MIDDLEBURG
SITE OF
1ST REFORMED
CHURCH
BUILT 1732
BURNED AUG. 17, 1780 BY
BRANT AND JOHNSON
Location: ON NYS 145 AT MIDDLEBURG
SITE OF
MIDDLE FORT
FORTIFIED AUG. 13, 1777
TO PROTECT INHABITANTS
DURING INVASION OF
BRANT AND JOHNSON
Location: ON NYS 30 AT MIDDLEBURG
WEISER'S DORF
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN
SCHOHARIE COUNTY
FOUNDED 1712-13
BY JOHN C. WEISER
AS A HOME FOR PALATINES
Location: ON NYS 145 AT MIDDLEBURG

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: RICHMONDVILLE, TOWN OF

100 YDS. [ARROW]
SITE OF
2 RICHMONDVILLE
SEMINARIES BUILT 1852 AND 1853
BURNED 1852 AND 1854
400 STUDENTS ACCOMODATED
Location: ON NYS 7 AT RICHMONDVILLE
100 YDS. [ARROW]
SITE OF
GRIST MILL
BUILT BY ASHA BAILEY 1807
ONE OF FIRST EARLY MILLS
IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Location: ON NYS 7 AT RICHMONDVILLE
BATTLE OF
COBLESKILL
ON MAY 30, 1778
JOSEPH BRANT WITH
TORIES AND INDIANS
BURNED THE SETTLEMENT
Location: ON NYS 7 ABOUT 1 MILE W. OF WARNERVILLE
BIRTHPLACE OF
CORPORAL JAMES TANNER
1844-1927, ENLISTED 87TH N.Y.
VOL.-CO. C. WOUNDED SECOND
BATTLE BULL RUN. PRESENT AT
LINCOLN'S DEATH BED
Location: ON NYS 7 AT W. RICHMONDVILLE
NICHOLAS WARNER
ONE HALF MILE NORTH FROM HERE
STOOD HOME OF NICHOLAS WARNER
BURNED DURING BATTLE OF COBLES-
KILL MAY 30, 1778
Location: ON NYS 7 AT WARNERVILLE
OLD RESIDENCE
OF HON. JOHN WESTOVER
1797-1887
BENEFACTOR OF THE VILLAGE
OF RICHMONDVILLE
Location: ON CO. RD. AT RICHMONDVILLE
SITE OF
OLD PAPER MILL
1865-1883
OPERATED BY WESTOVER
AND FOSTER
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT RICHMONDVILLE
SITE OF
LOG CABIN
SCHOOL HOUSE
FIRST BUILT IN RICHMONDVILLE
ABOUT 1807
Location: ON NYS 7 AT RICHMONDVILLE
SITE OF
GEO. DOX TAVERN
BUILT 1795, FIRST INN
ERECTED IN VILLAGE AND
FIRST POST OFFICE IN 1825,
J. WARNWE FIRST POSTMASTER
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 7 & NYS 10, RICHMONDVILLE
WARNERVILLE UNION
LITERARY SEMINARY
ERECTED 1853, ONE OF
SIX EARLY SEMINARIES IN
SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Location: ON NYS 7 AT WARNERVILLE

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: SCHOHARIE, TOWN OF

GEORGE MANN
TORY TAVERN
KNOWN IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
DAYS AS "THE BRICK HOUSE
AT THE FORKS OF THE ROAD"
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 30 & NYS 43
JACOB SNYDER
HOUSE
KNOWN IN 1802 AS
"YANKEE PETE TAVERN"
ORIGINAL INN DESTROYED
DURING REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 43 ABOUT 3 MIS. W. OF GALLUPVILLE
OLDEST BUILDING
IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY 1743
LUTHERAN PARSONAGE
PETER N. SOMMERS, DOMINIE
FIRST SERVICES HELD
SEPT. 12, 1743
Location: ON NYS 30 AT SCHOHARIE
SITE OF
BLOCK HOUSE
BUILT 1781
USED BY INHABITANTS
DURING INDIAN RAIDS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 7 & NYS 30
SITE OF
SIMEON LARAWAY MILL
ON MILL BROOK
ERECTED 1737
Location: ON NYS 30 AT SCHOHARIE
STONE CHURCH
PARSONAGE
THE FIRST HOME OF REV.
JOHANNIS SCHUYLER
PASTOR OFTHE OLD CHURCH
FORTRESS FOR 31 YEARS
Location: ON NYS 30 AT SCHOHARIE
SWARTS TAVERN
ERECTED ABOUT 1772
DUEL BETWEEN PHILIP
SCHUYLER 2D AND JOSIAH
CLARK FOUGHT BACK OF
BUILDING IN 1820
Location: ON NYS 30 AT SCHOHARIE
[ARROW] 300 FT.
FIRST COURT HOUSE
IN SCHOHARIE THE WAGON HOUSE
OF JOHANNIS INGOLD. COURT
HELD HERE DEC. 1795
WILLIAM BEEKMAN, JUDGE
Location: ON NYS 30 AT SCHOHARIE

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: SHARON, TOWN OF

CAMP OF CEDAR SWAMP
JULY 10, 1781, TORY CAPTAIN
DOCKSTADER WITH 500 INDIANS
WERE ROUTED HERE BY CAPT.
WILLETT AND BATTLE OF SHARON
OCCURRED JUST WEST OF HERE
Location: ON US 20 BETWEEN SHARON & SHARON CENTER
FIRST LUTHERAN
CONGREATION
IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY
FOUNDED IN 1745 BY
REV. PETER N. SOMMERS
Location: ON NYS 10 AT BEEKMAN CORNERS
LEESVILLE
CALVIN RICH SETTLED HERE
IN 1784. HERE STOOD A
TOLLGATE ON THE
GREAT WESTERN TURNPIKE
Location: ON US 20 AT LEESVILLE
OLD LOONENBERGH TURNPIKE
THIS OLD TURNPIKE SURVEYED
IN 1802 WAS THE MAIN ROUTE
OF TRAVEL FOR STAGE AND
OXCART FROM HUDSON RIVER
VALLEY NORTH AND WEST
Location: ON NYS 10 AT BEEKMAN CORNERS
WILLIAM BEEKMAN MANSION
BUILT 1802
WILL BEEKMAN WAS FIRST
JUDGE OF COURT HELD IN SCHOHARIE
COUNTY. DIED HERE NOV. 26, 1845.
BURIED ON THIS FARM
Location: ON NYS 10 ABOUT 3/4 MI. N. OF BEEKMAN CORNERS

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: SUMMIT, TOWN OF

OLD TOLL GATE
ON RICHMONDVILE-
CHARLOTTENVILLE PLANK ROAD
1855
Location: ON NYS 10 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF SUMMIT
SITE OF
PEOPLE'S COLLEGE
1/4 MILE [ARROW]
ERECTED 1855, BURNED 1867
ONE OF SIX EARLY SEMINARIES
IN SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Location: ON CO. RD. AT CHARLOTTEVILLE
SITE OF
CHARLOTTEVILLE
SEMINARY
BUILT 1850, BURNED 1856
FIRST OF SIX SEMINARIES IN
SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Location: ON COUNTY RD AT CHARLOTTEVILLE
THE BEARS GULF
ONCE USED AS INDIAN TRAIL
ORIGINAL DAM ERECTED 1842
PRESENT DAM BUILT 1863
BY JOHN WESTOVER TO FURNISH
WATER POWER FOR VARIOUS MILLS
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT N. END OF BEARS GULF L. ABOUT 1 MI. N.W. OF SUMMIT

County: SCHOHARIE
Town: WRIGHT, TOWN OF

BECKER STONE HOUSE
BUILT 1772
THE TORY, CRYSLER, WITH A
BAND OF INDIANS GAVE
BATTLE ON JULY 26, 1782
Location: ON NYS 43 WEST OF GALLUPVILLE

County: SCHUYLER
Town: CATHARINE, TOWN OF

CATHARINE M.E. CHURCH
ON SITE OF EARLIER EDIFICE
WHICH WAS THE
FIRST CHURCH
BUILDING IN COUNTY
ERECTED 1807
Location: ON COUNTY RD. IN CATHARINE

County: SCHUYLER
Town: DIX, TOWN OF

JANE A. DELANO
FOUNDER AMERICAN RED CROSS
NURSING SERVICE, 1909
BORN IN TOWNSEND
MARCH 12, 1862
Location: IN FRONT OF GRANGE HALL AT TOWNSEND

County: SCHUYLER
Town: HECTOR, TOWN OF

CAMP SITE
GEN. POOR'S
BRIGADE
CAMP, LINE NORTH-SOUTH
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
SEPTEMBER 3, 1779
Location: ON NYS 414 ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF HECTOR
CAMP SITE
GEN. HAND'S
LIGHT CORPS
CAMP, EXTENDING WEST HERE
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
SEPTEMBER 3, 1779
Location: ON NYS 414 AT HECTOR
CAMP SITE
GEN. CLINTON'S
BRIGADE
CAMP, LINE EAST-WEST
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
SEPTEMBER 3, 1779
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF HECTOR
CAMP SITE
GEN. MAXWELL'S BRIGADE
CAMP EXTENDING NORTH HERE
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
SEPTEMBER 3, 1779
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF HECTOR
CON-DAW-HAW
SITE OF IROQUOIS VILLAGE
CONSISTING OF CORNFIELDS
LONG HOUSE & CABINS
DESTROYED SEPT. 4, 1779 BY
GEN. SULLIVAN'S TROOPS
Location: ON NYS 414 AT VALOIS
EARLY SETTLER
STATES SURVEY 1790
LOCATES HERE CABIN ONE
MASTERS
WITH TWENTY ACRES
CLEARED LAND
Location: ON NYS 414 N. OF HECTOR
EPISCOPAL PARISH
CONSECRATED HERE 1830 BY
BISHOP HOBART. CHURCH
BUILDINGS AND SUPPORT OF
RECTOR MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH
GIFTS OF ELIZABETH WOODWARD
Location: ON NYS 414 AT HECTOR
FERRY
ESTABLISHED 1805 BETWEEN
THIS POINT AND STARKEY
BY JOHN GOODWIN
CHARTERED BY STATE, 1820
FRANK WOOD, PILOT, 1867-97
Location: ON LAKE SHORE AT VALOIS
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1809
PRESENT EDIFICE BUILT 1818
SUNDAY SCHOOL
HELD CONTINUOUSLY
SINCE 1813
Location: ON NYS 414 AT HECTOR
HON. HENRY FISH
HOMESTEAD
BUILT 1815-1820. FIRST
ASSEMBLYMAN FROM SCHUYLER
COUNTY 1858, CHAIRMAN
FIRST BOARD SUPERVISORS
Location: ON NYS 79 AT MECKLENBURG
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 414 ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF HECTOR
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 227 AT BURDETT
PEACH ORCHARD
(GA-DI-ODJI-YA-DA)
SITE OF IROUQUOIS VILLAGE
GEN. SULLIVAN CAMPED HERE
SEPTEMBER 3, 1779
Location: ON NYS 414 AT HECTOR
SAMUEL A. SEELY ERECTED A
WOOLEN MILL
AT THIS PLACE IN 1801
THE FIRST IN
SCHUYLER COUNTY
Location: ON NYS 414 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF WATKINS GLEN
SAW MILL CREEK
FIRST SAW MILL IN SECTION
LOCATED HERE. BUILT BY
REUBEN SMITH, 1795-6
Location: ON NYS 414 AT HECTOR
SITE OF
OLDEST HOUSE
IN TOWN OF BURDETTE
USED AS TAVERN, SCHOOL &
MASONIC HALL. CONTAINS
INTERESTING RELICS
Location: ON NYS 227 AT BURDETT
SITE OF CABIN OF
WILLIAM WYCKHAM
FIRST SETTLER IN
TOWN OF HECTOR 1791.
DIRECT DESCENDANT OF
EARL OF WYCKHAM
Location: ON NYS 414 ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF HECTOR
WAREHOUSE
ON THIS SITE IN 1823
A VESSEL LOADED 70 TONS
OF WHEAT & REACHED PORT
OF NEW YORK THROUGH
THE ERIE CANAL
Location: ON NYS 414 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF WATKINS GLEN

County: SCHUYLER
Town: MONTOUR, TOWN OF

CATHERINE'S
LANDING
1ST STORE & INN IN REGION
LOCATED HERE 1805
AT HEAD OF LAKE NAVIGATION
Location: ON NYS 14 AT MONTOUR FALLS
FIRST ROAD
IN SCHUYLER COUNTY
BUILT JUNE, 1799 FROM
PRESENT OWEGA ST. BRIDGE
TO SPENSER. KNOW AS THE
CATH. SPENSER TURNPIKE
Location: ON NYS AT MONTOUR FALLS
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 14 JUST SOUTH OF MONTOUR FALLS
SHE-QUA-GA
"TUMBLING WATERS"
A SKETCH NOW IN THE LOUVRE
MADE ABOUT 1820 BY
LOUIS PHILIPPE
LATER KING OF FRANCE
Location: ON GENESEE ST. IN MONTOUR

County: SCHUYLER
Town: READING, TOWN OF

UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD
LUTHER CLEVELAND AND WIFE
SHELTERED FUGITIVE SLAVES
HERE, AND HELPED THEM ON
THEIR WAY TO CANADA
Location: ON NYS 14 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF WATKINS GLEN

County: SCHUYLER
Town: TYRONE, TOWN OF

SITE OF
PRE-HISTORIC
INDIAN VILLAGE
OLDEST FOUND IN NEW YORK
ESTIMATED TO DATE
FROM 1000 B.C.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF WESTON

County: SENECA
Town: COVERT, TOWN OF

OLD BAPTIST CHURCH
FOUNDED COVERT, N.Y, FEB. 16,
1803. 1ST PASTOR MINOR THOMAS.
"MOTHER CHURCH" OF SENECA
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
OLD COVERT CEMETERY NEARBY
Location: ON NYS 96 AT COVERT
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
THIS BUILDING WAS THE 2D
USED FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES
IN FARMERSVILLE, NEW YORK
IN 1845 WAS KNOWN AS THE
"FARMERSVILLE INSTITUTE"
Location: ON YS 96A AT INTERLAKEN
THE BEEHIVE
TAVERN OF PIONEER DAYS
ERECTED 1824
3D FLOOR USED FOR
VARIOUS MEETINGS
Location: ON NYS 96 AT INTERLAKEN

County: SENECA
Town: FAYETTE, TOWN OF

APPROACHING
THE FARM OF
JOHN JOHNSTON
1791-1880
FATHER OF TILE-DRAINING
IN AMERICA
Location: ON NYS 96A ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH-WEST OF FAYETTE
BURROUGH'S POINT
SITE OF INDIAN VILLAGE
DESTROYED DURING SULLIVAN
CAMPAIGN, 1779. TROOPS
UNDER COL. HENRY DEARBORN
ENCAMPED HERE
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF CANOGA
CANOGA
GA-NO-GEH OF THE INDIANS
INCLUDED IN RESERVATION BY
INDIAN SACHEM FISH-CARRIER
BY TREATY OF 1795
Location: ON NYS 89 AT CANOGA
CANOGA CREEK
SITE OF THE INDIAN VILLAGE
OF SKANNAYUTENATE
RED JACKET, THE INDIAN
ORATOR WAS BORN HERE
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT1 1/2 MI. NORTH OF CANOGA
CANOGA LANDING
SITE OF INDIAN VILLAGE
DESTROYED DURING
SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN, 1779
FRONTENAC IS. JUST EAST
& NEARLY ACROSS THE LAKE
Location: ON TOWN RD. SHORE CAYUGA L. ABOUT 1 1/2 MI. S.E. OF CANOGA
CANOGA SPRING
REFERRED TO IN THE SURVEY
OF SENECA CO. BY
JOHN DELAFIELD IN 1850
AS BUBBLING PURE
NITROGEN GAS
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 3/4 MI. WEST OF CANOGA
CAYUGA LAKE
SITE OF LANDING OF MORAVIAN
MISSIONARIES ZEISBERGER AND
CAMMERHOFF JUNE 27, 1750
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF CANOGA
FIRST
SUNDAY SCHOOL
IN FAYETTE, 1819, TAUGHT
HERE IN OLD LOG SCHOOL
HOUSE BY DEACON
HUGH MC ALLISTER
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 3 MIS. WEST OF CANOGA
RED JACKET
WAS BORN HERE ABOUT 1758
THE FAMOUS INDIAN ORATOR
AND SENECA CHIEF SOUGHT TO
PRESERVE PEACE WITH U.S.
DIED IN BUFFALO IN 1830.
Location: ON NYS 89 AT CANOGA CEMETARY
SITE OF
HOWLAND'S LANDING
FORMERLY A LANDING AND
WAREHOUSE, SHOWN ON THE
DELAFIELD MAP OF 1852
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF EAST VARICK
SITE OF
INDIAN VILLAGE
DESTROYED BY TROOPS UNDER
COL. HENRY DEARBORNN
SEPT. 21, 1779
Location: ON TOWN RD. ON SHORE CAYUGA LAKE ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. S.E. OF CANOGA
SITE OF TAVERN
KEPT BY CAPTAIN NATHAN COOK
1756-1838
HIS GRANDSON, STEPHEN V. HARKNESS
LIVED HERE-ONE OF FOUNDERS OF
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF MACDOUGALL
[ARROW] 1 MILE
INDIAN VILLAGE AT
CANOGA LANDING
DESTROYED DURING
SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
1779
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 1/2 SOUTH OF CANOGA
[ARROW] 1 MILE
SITE OF
INDIAN VILLAGE
DESTROYED BY TROOPS UNDER
COL. HENRY DEARBORN
SEPT. 21, 1779
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. SOUTH OF CANOGA

County: SENECA
Town: OVID, TOWN OF

SULLIVAN TRAIL
BEFORE SETTLEMENT BY
WHITE MEN COL. HENRY
DEARBORN OF THE SULLIVAN
EXPEDITION VIEWED CAYUGA
LAKE HERE, SEPT. 22, 1779
Location: ON NYS 96 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF INTERLAKEN
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
ILLUSTRIOUS YALE PROFESSOR
BORN HERE 1835. SON OF
REV. THOMAS LOUNSBURY AND
MARY JANETTE WOODWARD.
STUDENT OF OVID ACADEMY
Location: ON NYS 414, VLGE. OF OVID

County: SENECA
Town: ROMULUS, TOWN OF

DEAN'S COVE
(SWAH-YA-WA-NAH)
INDIAN VILLAGE DESTROYED
BY DETACHMENTS FROM
SULLIVAN'S ARMY
SEPTEMBER 22, 1779
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF EAST VARICK
DEGORY PROWTT
DRUMMER BOY, 1776-1783
AT SIEGE OF FORT STANWIX
ON THE SULLIVAN EXPEDITION,
AT SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS,
LIVED A MILE WEST OF HERE.
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF EAST VARICK
KEN-DAI-A
INDIAN VILLAGE
DESTROYED BY
SULIVAN'S ARMY
SEPTEMBER 17, 1779
Location: ON NYS 96A ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OVID
WHITNEY'S LANDING
LATER KNOWN AS JACACKS' LANDING
WAS A PROMINENT LANDING SHOWN IN
THE DELAFIELD MAP OF 1852
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF EAST VARICK

County: SENECA
Town: SENECA FALLS TOWN OF

ALONG NORTH SIDE OF RIVER
MARCHED SULLIVAN'S FORCES
EXPEDITION COMMANDED BY
COL.PETER GANSEVOORT &
LT. COL. WILLIAM BUTLER
SEPT. 20-21, 1779
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5 ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF WATERLOO
BRIDGEPORT
FORMERLY CAYUGA FERRY
& W. CAYUGA TERMINUS OF
STATE LINE BRIDGE
PROMINENT WHEN AUBURN WAS
"HARDENBERGH'S CORNER"
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. E. OF SENECA FALLS
ELIZABETH CADY
STANTON
PROMOTER OF THE FIRST
WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION
LIVED HERE. CONVENTION
WAS HELD ACROSS THE RIVER
Location: ON WASHINGTON ST., SENECA FALLS
FIRST CONVENTION FOR
WOMAN'S RIGHTS
WAS HELD ON THIS CORNER
1848
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5, SENECA FALLS
HOME OF
GARY V. SACKETT
1790-1885
JUDGE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS-PROMOTER OF
CANAL SYSTEM
Location: AT INTERSECTION W. BAYARD & SACKETT STS., SENECA FALLS
KINGDOM CEMETERY
RESERVED IN DEED TO THOMAS
LAWRENCE. HERE UNTIL 1856
WERE MILLS, DISTILLERIES,
TAVERNS, SCHOOL, JUSTICE CT.,
MASONIC LODGE, RACE TRACK.
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5 ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF WATERLOO
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON ITS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5 AT THE EAST END OF WATERLOO
MYNDERSE
ACADEMY
NAMED FOR CO. WILHELMUS
MYNDERSE, FOUNDER OF
SENECA FALLS
Location: ON US 20 & NYS 5, SENECA FALLS
OLD GENESEE
STAGE ROUTE
CAYUGA LAKE BRIDGE MADE
THIS THE MAIN ROUTE UNTIL
THE ERIE CANAL OF 1822
AND THE RAILWAY OF 1840
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF SENECA FALLS
POTTER INN FARM
NATHANIEL J. POTTER, INNKEEPER
BLACKSMITH ON GENESEE ROAD,
1801-1808. HIS SON, HENRY 5.
POTTER, LIVED HERE. 1ST PRES.
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH, 1851.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF SENECA FALLS
SITE OF INDIAN VILLAGE
GAR-NON-DE-YO
DESTROYED DURING
SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
SEPT. 21, 1779
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF CANOGA
VAN CLEEF LAKE
NAMED FOR GEORGE CUNNINGHAM
VAN CLEEF, ONE OF FIRST
WHITE CHILDREN BORN IN
SENECA COUNTY 1797
Location: ON BANK OF LAKE NEAR INTERSECTION TRINITY LA. & FALL ST., SENECA FALLS

County: SENECA
Town: TYRE, TOWN OF

CRUSOE ISLAND
SITE OF CRUSOE POST OFFICE
UNTIL 1852. HOME OF SENATOR
DAVID H. EVANS, 1837-1920.
STAGE RELAYING BARNS WERE
LOCATED HERE
Location: ON NYS 414 AT CRUSOE

County: SENECA
Town: VARICK, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
ISAAC PHILLIPS ROBERTS
JULY 24, 1833
REPRESENTATIVE EXTRA-
ORDINARY OF AMERICAN
FARMER
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF EAST VARICK
EAST VARICK
ONCE PROMINENT LANDING WITH
HOTEL, WAREHOUSE, STORES,
RESIDENCES. EARLY HOME OF
ROBERTS, PHILLIPS, BURROUGHS,
CHRISTOPHER, BARRICK FAMILIES
Location: ON NYS 89 AT EAST VARICK
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1796 BY REV.
DANIEL THATCHER OF VIRGINIA
THIS BUILDING ERECTED 1838
Location: ON NYS 96 IN VILLAGE OF ROMULUS
SITE OF
CLARKTOWN
A NOW EXTINCT HAMLET WITH
WAREHOUSE, STORES, TAVERN,
POTTERY, AND FERRY TO
LEVANNA ACROSS THE LAKE
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF EAST VARICK
SITE OF
FRISBIE'S FERRY
A NOW EXTINCT HAMLET WITH
STORE, MILLS, DISTILLERY,
TAVERN, AND FERRY TO
AURORA, 1796.
Location: ON NYS 89 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES S. OF EAST VARICK

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: CANTON, TOWN OF

GRAVE & MONUMENT OF
SILAS WRIGHT
ARE IN THE CEMETERY
AT JUNCTION OF
MINER & WEST STREETS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF PARK & WEST STS., CANTON
HOME OF
SILAS WRIGHT
STATESMAN
U.S. SENATOR 1833-43
GOV. OF NEW YORK 1844-46.
Location: ON MAIN ST. BETWEEN COURT CHURCH STS., CANTON
ST. LAWRENCE
UNIVERSITY
CHARTERED BY THE STATE
LEGISLATURE, APRIL 3, 1856
RICHARDSON HALL CORNERSTONE
LAID JUNE 18, 1856
Location: PARK ST. S. OF UNIVERSITY AVE., CANTON

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: DE PEYSTER, TOWN OF

SITE OF BIRTHPLACE
MAJ. GEN. NEWTON
MARTIN CURTIS
1835-1910
SOLIDIER AND LEGISLATOR, WHO
RENDERED DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
DURING THE CIVIL WAR
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 5 1/2 MIS. S.W. OF HEUVELTON
[ARROW]
1/4 MILE
SITE OF BIRTHPLACE
MAJ. GEN. NEWTON
MARTIN CURTIS
Location: ON NYS 184 ABOUT 5 MIS. S.W. OF HEUVELTON

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: FOWLER, TOWN OF

SITE OF FIRST
TALC MILL IN
UNITED STATES
BUILT IN 1876 BY THE
AGALITE FIBRE COMPANY
CAPACITY 8 TONS DAILY
Location: ON NYS 58, VLGE. OF FOWLER

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: HOPKINTON, TOWN OF

BIRTISH RAID
IN FEB. 1814, BRITISH TROOPS
RAIDED THIS VILLAGE SEIZING
300 BARRELS OF FLOUR OF
U.S. GOV. AND STORED IN BARNS
OF COL. HOPKINS NEAR BROOK
Location: ON NYS 11 B & NYS 72, HOPKINTON
MILITARY ROAD
TO SACKETS HARBOR WAR 1812
FIRST FRAME HOUSE OPPOSITE
BUILT 1806 BY TOWN FOUNDER
ROSWELL HOPKINS, COL. IN REV.
WAR, SEC. OF STATE, VERMONT
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 72 & NYS 11B AT HOPKINTON

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: LAWRENCE, TOWN OF

ROAD JUNCTURE
PORT KENT TO HOPKINTON
TURNPIKE MERGED WITH
OLD MILITARY TURNPIKE
NEAR HERE
Location: ON INTERSECTION NYS 11B & NYS 195, NICHOLVILLE

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: MASSENA, TOWN OF

SITE OF
UNITED STATES
HOTEL
BUILT IN 1848 BY BENJAMIN
PHILIPS, HOTEL FACED
EAST HATFIELD STREET.
Location: AT INTERSECTION MAIN & W. HATFIELD STS.
SITE OF
FIRST GRIST MILL
IN MASSENA, BUILT 1808-09
BY STEPHEN REED AND
CALVIN HUBBARD
Location: ON WATER ST., MASSENA
SITE OF
FIRST SCHOOL
IN MASSENA, BUILT 1803
LOCATED ON WATER STREET,
191 FEET FROM THIS CORNER.
GILBERT REED, INSTRUCTOR
Location: AT INTERSECTION E. ORIVS & WATER STS.
SITE OF
FIRST SETTLEMENT
IT MASSENA BEGAN IN 1792.
SAWMILL ERECTED THEN. SITE
NOW OCCUPIED BY STONE HOUSE
BUILT BY CAPT. HASKELL 1825.
Location: AT INTERSECTION E. ORVIS & TAMARACK STS., MASSENA
SITE OF
HARROGATE HOUSE
HOTEL BUILT IN 1822 BY
RUEL TAYLOR FOR THOSE WHO
CAME TO DRINK MASSENA
SPRING WATER
Location: AT INTERSECTION, MAIN & W. HATFIELD STS.
TOWN OF
MASSENA
FORMED MARCH 3, 1802
NAMED IN HONOR OF
ANDRE MASSENA, 1758-1817,
MARSHAL IN FRENCH ARMY
Location: ON NYS 37 AT W. EDGE OF MASSENA
TOWN OF
MASSENA
FORMED MARCH 3, 1802
NAMED IN HONOR OF
ANDRE MASSENA, 1758-1817
MARSHAL IN FRENCH ARMY
Location: ON NYS 56 AT MASSENA TOWN LINE
TOWN OF
MASSENA
FORMED MARCH 3, 1802
NAMED IN HONOR OF
ANDRE MASSENA, 1758-1817
MARSHAL IN FRENCH ARMY
Location: ON NYS 420 AT MASSENA TOWN LINE

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: OGDENSBUFGH, TOWN OF

[ARROW]
REMINGTON ART
MEMORIAL
COR. WASHINGTON & STATE STS.
OPEN 2-5 AND 7-9 P.M.
DEDICATED JULY 19, 1923
Location: ON NYS 37 AT E. LIMITS OF CITY
[ARROW]
REMINGTON ART
MEMORIAL
COR. WASHINGTON & STATE STS.
OPEN 2-5 AND 7-9 P.M.
DEDICATED JULY 19, 1923
Location: ON NYS 68 AT S. LIMITS OF CITY
[ARROW]
REMINGTON ART
MEMORIAL
COR. WASHINGTON & STATE STS.
OPEN 2-5 AND 7-9 P.M.
DEDICATED JULY 19, 1923
Location: ON NYS 37 AT W/EDGE OF CITY
[ARROW]
REMINGTON ART
MEMORIAL
COR. WASHINGTON & STATE STS.
OPEN 2-5 AND 7-9 P.M.
DEDICATED JULY 19, 1923
Location: ON NYS 87 AT S. LIMITS OF CITY

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: OSWEGATCHIE, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE
CHARLES DAVIES, 1799, MATHEMATICIAN
HENRY DAVIES, 1805, CHIEF JUDGE
N. Y. STATE COURT OF APPEALS
MAJ. GEN. THOMAS DAVIES, 1809
WHOSE TOMB IS OPPOSITE
Location: ON BLACK LAKE RD., 9 MI. WEST OF OGDENSBURG

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: PARISHVILLE, TOWN OF

FIRST CHURCH
IN TOWN OF PARISHVILLE
WAS BUILT HERE IN 1828
MOVED TO
PARISHVILLE VILLAGE
1846
Location: ON NYS 72 ABOUT 2 MIS. W. OF PARISHVILLE
SITE OF
FIRST BRIDGE
MADE BY WHITE MEN
IN TOWN OF PARISHVILLE
1809
Location: ON NYS 72 AT PARISHVILLE
SITE OF LOG CABIN OF
LUKE BROWN
FIRST SETTLER
IN TOWN OF PARISHVILLE
BUILT 1810
Location: ON NYS 72 ABOUT 4 MIS. W. OF PARISHVILLE
THE OLD
PARISH TAVERN
BUILT 1815 BY
DAVID PARISH
STOOD HERE
BURNED 1875
Location: ON NYS 72 AT PARISHVILLE
THIS WAS THE
FIRST ROAD
IN THE TOWN OF PARISHVILLE
CUT THROUGH 1809
CALLED LUKE BROWN ROAD
FOR EARLIEST SETTLER
Location: ON NYS 72 NEAR PARISHVILLE-POTSDAM TOWN LINE

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: POTSDAM, TOWN OF

TOWN OF POTSDAM
ONE OF TEN TOWNS OF 1787.
BOUGHT BY CLARKSON FAMILY
WITH OTHERS, 1802. SETTLED
BY BENJ. RAYMOND, LAND AGENT,
1803. TOWN ESTABLISHED 1806.
Location: ON E. SIDE OF NYS 11 AT S. EDGE OF VILLAGE

County: ST. LAWRENCE
Town: WADDINGTON, TOWN OF

ST PAUL'S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
BUILT ON MODEL OF ST PAUL'S
NEW YORK, 1818. FIRST RECTOR,
REV. AMOS G. BALDWIN
DIDICATED BY BISHOP HOBART
Location: ON NYS 345 AT WADDINGTON

County: STEUBEN
Town: BATH, TOWN OF

PULTENEY SQUARE
HERE IN 1793 WAS MADE
THE FIRST CLEARING
IN STEUBEN COUNTY BY
COL. CHARLES WILLIAMSON
Location: ON MORRIS ST., BATH
[ARROW]
U.S. VETERANS
ADMINISTRATION FACILITY
SITE OF BATH SOLDIERS' AND
SAILORS' HOME, BUILT IN 1877
Location: ON US 15 NORTH OF BATH

County: STEUBEN
Town: CAMERON, TOWN OF

AVERELL HILL
BIRTHPLACE OF
WILLIAM WOODS AVERELL
MAJOR GENERAL, U.S.A.
NOTED CAVALRY LEADER OF
THE CIVIL WAR
Location: ON CO. RD. AT W. AMERON

County: STEUBEN
Town: CANISTEO, TOWN OF

FRENCH OCCUPATION
HERE IN 1690 SIEUR DE
VILLIERS AND ABBE FENELON
DISCOVERED A SETTLEMENT,
ERECTED A CROSS, AND
PLANTED THE FLAG OF FRANCE
Location: ON NYS 21 NEAR JUNCTION WITH NYS 248
KANESTIO
CASTLE
INDIAN VILLAGE BURNED 1764
BY CAPT. ANDREW MONTOUR
AND A PROVINCIAL FORCE
Location: ON NYS 21 NEAR JUNCTION WITH NYS 248

County: STEUBEN
Town: COHOCTON, TOWN OF

FIRST PRESBYERTIAN CHURCH
FOUNDED OCTOBER 8, 1809
BY ABIJAH WARREN
THIRD CHURCH ORGANIZED
IN OLD BATH PRESBYERY
AT CORNER OF CHURCH ST. AND HIGHWAY 15

County: STEUBEN
Town: CORNING, TOWN OF

CHIMNEY
NARROWS
LOCALITY OF
INDIAN MOUNDS
OF UNUSUAL SIZE

County: STEUBEN
Town: HORNELLSVILLE, TOWN OF

HERE INDIANS & TORIES
USED PINE TREES TO BUILD
CANOES FOR TRANSPORT TO
WYOMING - WYOMING MASSACRE
JULY 3, 1778
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF HORNELL
OLDEST HOUSE
IN STEUBEN COUNTY
ERECTED 1797 BY
COL. JAMES MCBURNEY
A PROBABLE STATION OF
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
Location: ON NYS 21 AT CANISTEO-HORNELLSVILLE TOWN LINE

County: STEUBEN
Town: HOWARD, TOWN OF

OLD INN SITE
DR. MARCUS WHITMAN, REV.
AND MRS. H.H. SPALDING
MET HERE FEB. 14, 1836
AND DECIDED TO GO
TOGETHER TO OREGON
Location: ON NYS 70 AT HOWARD

County: STEUBEN
Town: PRATTSBURG, TOWN OF

NARCISSA
PRENTISS
WIFE OF MARCUS H. WHITEMAN
BORN HERE MARCH 14, 1808
CROSSED ROCKIES IN 1836
MASSACRED NOV. 29, 1847

County: STEUBEN
Town: URBANA, TOWN OF

CRADLE OF
AVIATION
HERE CLENN H. CURTISS
PILOTED "THE JUNE BUG"
JULY 4, 1908
FIRST KILOMETER FLIGHT
GLENN H. CURTISS
BORN HAMMONDSPORT 1878
EARLY MAKER OF MOTORCYLCE
AND AIRPLANE ENGINES- FLEW
SUCCESSFULLY AIRPLANES AND
HYDROPLANES HERE 1908-1911
1/4 MILE NORTH OF HAMMONDSPORT ON ROUTE 54

County: STEUBEN
Town: WHEELER, TOWN OF

150 FEET [ARROW]
FORMERLY THE OFFICE OF
MARCUS WHITMAN
MISSIONARY & PHYSICIAN
LIVED AT WHEELER 1832-35
Location: ON NYS 53 AT WHEELER
HENRY HARMON SPALDING
MISSIONARY TO INDIANS OF NORTH-
WEST TERRITORY AND
PIONEER TO STATE OF IDAHO
BORN HERE, NOV. 26, 1803
Location: ON NYS 53 2 MILES SOUTH OF WHEELER

County: SUFFOLK
Town: BABYLON, TOWN OF

SUFFOLK COUNTY
ORGANIZED NOV. 1, 1683.
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK. ORIGINALLY
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.
Location: NYS 24, E. OF STAPLES RD.
SUFFOLK COUNTY
ORGANIZED NOV. 1, 1683.
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK. ORIGINALLY
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.
Location: PARKWAY CT. & GREAT NECK RD. WEST OF NYS 110
SUFFOLK COUNTY
ORGANIZED NOV. 1, 1683.
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK. ORIGINALLY
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.
Location: COUNTY LINE RD. & NYS 27
TOWN OF BABYLON
A PART OF TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION
IN 1872
Location: COUNTY LINE RD. & NYS 27A
TOWN OF BABYLON
A PART OF TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION
IN 1872
Location: NYS 110 NEAR MELVILLE RD.
TOWN OF BABYLON
A PART OF TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION
IN 1872
Location: STRAIGHT PATH NEAR TRISCOTT ST.
TOWN OF BABYLON
A PART OF TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION
IN 1872
Location: BRENTWOOD RD., E. OF COMAC RD.

County: SUFFOLK
Town: BROOKHAVEN, TOWN OF

GENERAL WOODHULL
NATHANIEL WOODHULL, LEADER
OF SUFFOLK COUNTY MILITIA,
FATALLY WOUNDED AUGUST,
1776. IS BURIED FOUR MILES
SOUTH AT MASTIC.
Location: NYS 27 IN MASTIC
ROE TAVERN
STOOD HERE 1703-1936
WASHINGTON SPENT THE NIGHT
HERE APRIL 22, 1790.
AUSTIN ROE, INN KEEPER, WAS
ONE OF WASHINGTON'S SPIES.
Location: NYS 25A, IN EAST SETAUKET
SITE OF
STONY BROOK
GRIST MILL
BUILT IN 1699
BY ADAM SMITH
Location: AT MILL POND, STONY BROOK
SITE OF HOME
ABRAHAM WOODHULL
CHIEF OF LONG ISLAND SPIES
UNDER GEN. WASHINGTON
BUILT BY RICHARD WOODHULL
1690 - BURNED 1931.
Location: STRONG'S RD. & OLD LAND, SETAUKET
THOMPSON HOUSE
ERECTED ABOUT 1700
BIRTHPLACE IN 1784
OF BENJAMIN F. THOMPSON
LONG ISLAND HISTORIAN
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: NYS 27 IN PATCHOGUE, W. OF BUFFIN LANE
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: DAVID TERRY ST. & NO. RIVER RD. IN MANORVILLE
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: NYS 27 IN EASTPORT
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: OLD COUNTRY RD., N. OF EASTPORT
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: MORICHES RD.
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: NYS 25A, W. OF WADING RIVER RD.
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: NORTH COUNTRY RD., W. OF WADING RIVER
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: NYS 25A, E OF THE RIDGE
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
COV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: NYS 25A, W. OF STONY BROOK
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
COV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: RONKONKOMA AVE., N. OF R.R. BRIDGE, RONKONKOMA
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: WADING R. RD., S. OF PECONIC RIVER BRIDGE
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
COV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: PATCHOGUE-HOLBROOK RD., N. OF BLUE POINT
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
COV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: NYS 27, W. OF BLUE POINT
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
COV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: NYS 25 IN LAKE GROVE
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
FOUNDED 1655.
COV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666-7.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
FIRST CHURCH 1669.
FIRST TOWN MEETING 1657.
Location: MIDDLE RD., W. OF BLUE POINT
[ARROW]
POOSPATUCK
IN 1700 WILLIAM SMITH
OF THIS TERRITORY GAVE THE
POOSPATUCK INDIANS 50 ACRES
ON THE MASTIC RIVER. THE
TRIBE LIVED HERE MANY YEARS.
Location: NYS 27 IN MASTIC

County: SUFFOLK
Town: EAST HAMPTON, TOWN OF

CLINTON ACADEMY
FOUNDED 1784 BY REV. DR.
BUELL. WILLIAM PAYNE WAS
FIRST TEACHER. IT WAS THE
FIRST ACADEMY CHARTERED BY
STATE BOARD OF REGENTS.
Location: NYS 27 IN EAST HAMPTON
FIRST SHEEP FOLD
SITE 1684
EAST HAMPTON TOWNSMEN
UNDER CARE OF A SHEPHERD
HERDED EARMARKED SHEEP
IN THIS COMMON PASTURAGE
Location: NYS 27 AT EGYPT LANE IN EAST HAMPTON
HOME OF
CAPTAIN JOHN DAYTON
LEADER OF THE MILITIA
COMPANY THAT DEFENDED
EAST HAMPTON IN THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: NYS 27, E. OF TOWN LINE
INDIAN LANDMARK
BUC-USK-KIL
WHOOPING-BOYS HOLLOW, REST-
ING PLACE OF BODY OF SACHEM
POGGATTICUT, WHEN BORNE TO
MONTAUK FOR BURIAL, MAY 1654.
Location: NYS 114 BETWEEN E. HAMPTON & SAG HARBOR
SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH
BUILT BY TOWN 1651. USED
UNTIL 1717. A FRAME BUILDING
20 BY 26 FEET WITH A
THATCHED ROOF, STOOD ON
OR VERY NEAR THIS SPOT
Location: JAMES LANE IN E. HAMPTON
SITE OF HOME
REV. THOMAS JAMES
LIVED HERE 1650-96. PREPARED
A CATECHISM FOR MONTAUK
INDIANS. WAS ARRESTED FOR
ASSERTING RIGHTS.
Location: JAMES LANE , EAST HAMPTON
TOWN CHURCH
LARGEST AND MOST COSTLY ON
LONG ISLAND. USED 1717-1861.
HERE WERE ORDAINED SAMUEL
BUEL, SAMSON OCCOM, LYMAN
BEECHER AND STEPHEN MERSHON.
Location: NYS 27 IN EAST HAMPTON
TOWN OF EAST HAMPTON
FOUNDED 1648. FIRST CHURCH 1652.
FIRST ACADEMY IN THE STATE OF
NEW YORK. GOV. NICOLLS PATENT
1666-7. GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1686.
Location: NYS 27 AT TOWN LINE

County: SUFFOLK
Town: HUNTINGTON, TOWN OF

PLATT'S TAVERN
STOOD ON THIS CORNER
UNTIL 1860
PRESIDENT WASHINGTON DINED
THEREIN FRIDAY APRIL
23, 1790
Location: PARK AVE., E. OF WOODHULL RD., HUNTINGTON
SILAS WOOD
1769 - 1847
AUTHOR OF FIRST
HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND
HIS HOME STOOD ON THIS
SITE UNTIL 1881
Location: PARK AVE., E. OF WOODHULL RE., HUNTINGTON
SUFFOLK COUNTY
ORGANIZED NOV. 1, 1683.
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK. ORIGINALLY
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.
Location: NYS 25A, E. OF STATE FISH HATCHERY
SUFFOLK COUNTY
ORGANIZED NOV. 1, 1653.
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
COUNTIES OF THE PROVINCE
OF NEW YORK. ORIGINALLY
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.
Location: NYS 25 AT NASSAU-SUFFOLK LINE
TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
FIRST PURCHASE 1653.
FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER 1657.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1688.
FIRST CHURCH BUILDING 1665.
Location: WOODBURY RD., W. OF COLD SPRING HARBOR RD.
TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
FIRST PURCHASE 1653.
FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER 1657.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1688.
FIRST CHURCH BUILDING 1665.
Location: NYS 25 AT NASSAU-SUFFOLK LINE
TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
FIRST PURCHASE 1653.
FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER 1657.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1688.
FIRST CHURCH BUILDING 1665.
Location: NYS 110, S. OF RULAND RD.
TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
FIRST PURCHASE 1653.
FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER 1657.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1688.
FIRST CHURCH BUILDING 1665.
Location: NYS 25 NEAR COMMACK RD.
TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
FIRST PURCHASE 1653.
FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER 1657.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1688.
FIRST CHURCH BUILDING 1665.
Location: NYS 25A IN FORT SALONGA
TOWN OF HUNTINGTON
FIRST PURCHASE 1653.
FIRST SCHOOLTEACHER 1657.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1666.
GOV. DONGAN PATENT 1688.
FIRST CHURCH BUILDING 1665.
Location: NYS 25A, W. OF LAWRENCE HILL RD.

County: SUFFOLK
Town: ISLIP, TOWN OF

ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: MIDDLE RD., E. OF GILLETTE AVE., BAYPORT
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: NYS 27, E. OF GILLETTE AVE., BAYPORT
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: PATCHOGUE-HOLBROOK RD. & WAVERLY AVE., HOLTSVILLE
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: ROSEVILLE AVE., W. OF LAKE RONKONKOMA
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: SMITHTOWN AVE. AT R.R. BRIDGE RONKONKOMA
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: ROSEVILLE AVE., W. OF LAKE RONKONKOMA
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: WHEELER RD. & TN. LINE RD., HAUPPAUGE
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: CROOKED HILL RD., BRENTWOOD
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: JOHN ST., W. OF PARKWOOD RD., WEST ISLIP
ISLIP TOWN
ORIGINALLY OWNED BY
SECATOGUE INDIANS, NAMED
AFTER ISLIP, ENG. FIRST
TOWN MEETING 1720. FIRST PATENT
1684. FIRST CHURCH 1769.
Location: NYS 27A, E. OF SUMPWAMS RD.
SAGTIKOS
MANOR
PRESIDENT WASHINGTON
PASSED THE NIGHT HERE
DURING HIS TOUR OF L.I.
APRIL, 1790
Location: NYS 27A, WEST BAY SHORE

County: SUFFOLK
Town: RIVERHEAD, TOWN OF

TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
A PART OF SOUTHOLD PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION 1792. FIRST
SETTLEMENT 1690, SUFFOLK
COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1725.
Location: SOUND AVE., W. OF ALDRICH LA. NORTH OF FRANKLINVILLE
TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
A PART OF SOUTHOLD PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION 1792. FIRST
SETTLEMENT 1690, SUFFOLK
COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1725.
Location: NYS 25, W. OF LAUREL LANE IN LAUREL
TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
A PART OF SOUTHOLD PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION 1792. FIRST
SETTLEMENT 1690, SUFFOLK
COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1725.
Location: PECONIC BAY BLVD. & LAUREL LANE, S. OF LAUREL.
TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
A PART OF SOUTHOLD PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION 1792. FIRST
SETTLEMENT 1690, SUFFOLK
COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1725.
Location: NYS 24 S. OF MAIN ST., RIVERHEAD
TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
A PART OF SOUTHOLD PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION 1792. FIRST
SETTLEMENT 1690, SUFFOLK
COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1725.
Location: N. RIVER RD., MANORVILLE
TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
A PART OF SOUTHOLD PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION 1792. FIRST
SETTLEMENT 1690, SUFFOLK
COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1725.
Location: WADING R. RD., N. OF PECONIC RIVER BRIDGE
TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
A PART OF SOUTHOLD PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION 1792. FIRST
SETTLEMENT 1690, SUFFOLK
COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1725.
Location: NYS 25A, W. OF WADING R. RD.
TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
A PART OF SOUTHOLD PRIOR TO
ITS ORGANIZATION 1792. FIRST
SETTLEMENT 1690, SUFFOLK
COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1725.
Location: SOUND RD. & N. WADING R. RD. WADING RIVER

County: SUFFOLK
Town: SHELTER ISLAND, TOWN OF

FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN
MANSE
OWNED 1806-12, BY
REV. DANIEL HALL
Location: BURNS RD., E. OF RAM IS. RD.
JAMES HAVENS
MEMBER OF THE PROVINCIAL
CONGRESS LIVED IN THIS
HOUSE, BUILT IN 1743,
WHICH REMAINED IN HAVENS
FAMILY UNTIL 1925
Location: NYS 114, S. OF SMITH ST.
SHELTER ISLAND
SETTLED 1652.
NATHANIEL SYLVESTER 1610-80
A SUGAR MERCHANT
OF BARBADOS WAS THE
FIRST RESIDENT OWNER
Location: NYS 114 AT MANWARING RD.
SHELTER ISLAND
SETTLED 1652.
NATHANIEL SYLVESTER 1610-80
A SUGAR MERCHANT
OF BARBADOS WAS THE
FIRST RESIDENT OWNER
Location: NYS 114, AT S. FERRY LANDING
SHELTER ISLAND
SETTLED 1652
NATHANIEL SYLVESTER 1610-80
A SUGAR MERCHANT
OF BARBADOS WAS THE
FIRST RESIDENT OWNER.
Location: NYS 114 AT WINTHROP RD.
SITE OF
GREAT CENTRAL MANSION,
HOME OF
JONATHAN NICOLL HAVENS
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
1755-1799
Location: CONGDON RD., W. OF CARTWRIGHT RD.
SITE OF
FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
JANUARY 1828.
ALSO SITE OF
OLD TOWN HALL.
Location: NYS 114, W. OF RAM IS. RD.
SITE OF FIRST
MEETING HOUSE
BUILT 1743. ALSO OF
CHURCH BUILDING DEDICATED
JULY, 1817 AND BURNED
FEBRUARY, 1934
Location: NYS 114, S. OF MANWARING RD.
[ARROW]
MONUMENT
ERECTED JULY 17, 1884
TO THE MEMORY OF
NATHANIEL SYLVESTER AND
THE QUAKERS WHO CAME
HERE TO ESCAPE PERSECUTION.
Location: NYS 114, S. OF MANWARING RD.
[ARROW]
LORD SHIP YARD
ESTABLISHED ABOUT 1800.
FAMOUS SCHOONER "PARAGON"
WHICH RAN BLOCKADE IN 1804
DURING NAPOLEONIC WARS
WAS BUILT HERE.
Location: MENANTIC RD., S. OF HAGAR RD.

County: SUFFOLK
Town: SMITHTOWN, TOWN OF

TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
FOUNDED BY RICHARDS (BULL) SMITH.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1665-6.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1677.
FIRST CHURCH BEFORE 1750.
Location: NYS 25A W. OF STONY BROOK
TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
FOUNDED BY RICHARDS (BULL) SMITH.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1665-6.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1677.
FIRST CHURCH BEFORE 1750.
Location: HUDSON AVE. & LAKE SHORE RD., N. OF LAKE RONKONKOMA
TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
FOUNDED BY RICHARDS (BULL) SMITH.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1665-6.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1677.
FIRST CHURCH BEFORE 1750.
Location: NYS 111 & ISLIP LINE RD., HAUPPAUGE
TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
FOUNDED BY RICHARDS (BULL) SMITH.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1665-6.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1677.
FIRST CHURCH BEFORE 1750.
Location: COMMACK RD., S. OF CROOKED HILL RD.
TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
FOUNDED BY RICHARDS (BULL) SMITH.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1665-6.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1677.
FIRST CHURCH BEFORE 1750.
Location: NYS 25, E. OF COMMACK RD.
TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
FOUNDED BY RICHARDS (BULL) SMITH.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1665-6.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1677.
FIRST CHURCH BEFORE 1750.
Location: PULASKI AVE. & TOWN LINE RD., S. OF FORT SALONGA
TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
FOUNDED BY RICHARDS (BULL) SMITH.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1665-6.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1677.
FIRST CHURCH BEFORE 1750.
Location: NYS 25A & BREAD AND CHEESE HOLLOW RD., FORT SALONGA
TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
FOUNDED BY RICHARDS (BULL) SMITH.
GOV. NICOLLS PATENT 1665-6.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1677.
FIRST CHURCH BEFORE 1750.
Location: CROOKED HILL RD., S. E. OF COMMACK RD.
[ARROW]
FORT SALONGA
ONE MILE NORTH ON OCT. 3,
1781, MAJOR TRESCOTT AND A
FORCE FROM CONNECTICUT TOOK
BRITISH GARRISON AND LARGE
QUANTITIES OF PROVISIONS
Location: NYS 25A & BREAD AND CHEESE HOLLOW RD., FORT SALONGA

County: SUFFOLK
Town: SOUTHAMPTON, TOWN OF

BUILT 1757
HEADQUARTERS OF
GEN. WILLIAM ERSKINE
COMMANDER OF BRITISH TROOPS
OCCUPYING EASTERN LONG ISLAND
1777-8
Location: MAIN ST. & NO. SEA RD., SOUTHAMPTON
CONSCIENCE POINT
1640
LANDING PLACE OF COLONISTS
WHO SETTLED SOUTHAMPTON;
FIRST ENGLISH COLONY
IN NEW YORK STATE
Location: N. SEA RD., N. OF NORTH SEA ON GREAT PECONIC BAY
FIRST CUSTOM HOUSE
IN FIRST DISTRICT
OF NEW YORK STATE
ACT PASSED BY FIRST CONGRESS
MAKING SAG HARBOR PORT OF
ENTRY, APPROVED AUG. 4, 1790
Location: NYS 114 & SHORE RD., SAG HARBOR
FIRST WATERMILL
1644
BUILT BY EDWARD HOWELL
NEAR THIS SITE FOR
SOUTHAMPTON COLONY
Location: MILL RD. AT BRIDGE IN WATER MILL
GRAVEYARD
SHINNECOCK INDIANS
HERE ALSO LIE THE BODIES
OF THE INDIANS WHO PERISHED
IN THE WRECK OF THE
CIRCASSIAN, DEC. 1876.
Location: S. OF NYS 27 ON RD. TO BEACH
INDIAN PREACHER
GRAVE OF REV. PAUL CUFFEE
OF THE SHINNECOCK TRIBE
1790-1812. GRANDSON AND
SUCCESSOR TO REV. PETER
JOHN AND SAMSON OCCUM
Location: NYS 27 BETWEEN HAMPTON BAYS AND CANOE PLACE
MEIGS' EXPEDITION
MAY 23, 1777
130 COLONIALS LANDED HERE
DESTROYED BRITISH SHIPPING
AT SAG HARBOR, CAPTURED
90 PRISONERS AND REEMBARKED
Location: SHORE & NOYACK RDS., NOYACK
NORTH END GRAVEYARD
CONTAINING GRAVES OF
MANY SOLDIERS OF
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
FIRST BURIAL 1712
1777-8
Location: NO. SEA RD. & MAIN ST., SOUTHAMPTON
OLD TOWN
SITE OF FIRST SETTLEMENT
1640 THE FIRST STREET
Location: OLD TOWN RD. & WICKAPOGUE RD., SOUTHAMPTON
SITE OF
SECOND CHURCH
BUILT 1654
Location: S. MAIN ST., S. OF MERRICK RD., SOUTHAMPTON
SITE OF
FIRST
MEETING HOUSE
1641
Location: OLD TOWN RD. & MEETING HOUSE LA, SOUTHAMPTON
SITE OF
POXABOGUE WINDMILL
SUBJECT OF FAMOUS LAWSUIT
WHICH DECIDED THE RIGHTS OF
LANDOWNERS TO ADJOINING
HIGHWAY, NEW YORK STATE LAW,
1842
Location: SAGAPONACK RD., S. OF NYS 27
THE OLD FORT
SITE OF OLD BRITISH
FORT ERECTED DURING
ENGLISH OCCUPATION OF
SOUTHAMPTON, 1777-8
Location: OLD FORT RD., SOUTHAMPTON
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON
FOUNDED 1640. FIRST CHURCH 1640.
ANDROSS PATENT 1676. DONGAN
PATENT 1686. OLDEST ENGLISH
COLONY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Location: TOWN LINE RD. & HEDGES LANE
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON
FOUNDED 1640. FIRST CHURCH 1640.
ANDROSS PATENT 1676. DONGAN
PATENT 1686. OLDEST ENGLISH
COLONY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Location: TOWN LINE ON PECONIC RIVER
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON
FOUNDED 1640. FIRST CHURCH 1640.
ANDROSS PATENT 1676. DONGAN
PATENT 1686. OLDEST ENGLISH
COLONY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Location: MORICHES RD.
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON
FOUNDED 1640. FIRST CHURCH 1640.
ANDROSS PATENT 1676. DONGAN
PATENT 1686. OLDEST ENGLISH
COLONY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Location: NYS 27 IN EASTPORT
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON
FOUNDED 1640. FIRST CHURCH 1640.
ANDROSS PATENT 1676. DONGAN
PATENT 1686. OLDEST ENGLISH
COLONY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Location: OLD COUNTRY RD., N. OF EASTPORT
TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON
FOUNDED 1640. FIRST CHURCH 1640.
ANDROSS PATENT 1676. DONGAN
PATENT 1686. OLDEST ENGLISH
COLONY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Location: PECONIC R. IN UPPER MILLS
TRIANGULAR
COMMONS
TRAINING GROUNDS OF MILITIA
OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND IN
COLONIAL DAYS, 1649-1776
Location: NYS 27 BETWEEN BEACH & SHORE RDS., BRIDGEHAMPTON
WICK'S TAVERN
BUILT 1686
BY JOHN WICK AND USED
BY AMERICAN AND ENGLISH
SOLDIERS DURING THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Location: NYS 27 NEAR VILLAGE MONUMENT, BRIDGEHAMPTON
WINDMILL HILL
SITE OF JOHN WICK'S
SPIDER-LEGGED WINDMILL
ABOUT 1700
Location: INTERSECTION OF RDS. TO NOYACK, BRIDGEHAMPTON & SAG HARBOR, N. OF BRIDGEHAMTON
YE
TOWNE
STREET
OPENED 1648
Location: MAIN ST. & MEETING HOUSELANE, SOUTHAMPTON
[ARROW]
SHINNECOCK
INDIAN RESERVATION OF 400
ACRES. THE REMAINDER OF THE
TRIBE IS SELF-GOVERNING AND
RETAINS ANCIENT FISHING AND
HUNTING RIGHTS.
Location: NYS 27 AT SHINNECOCK RESERVATION

County: SUFFOLK
Town: SOUTHOLD, TOWN OF

TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
FIRST WHITE SETTLERS 1640.
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1676.
OLDEST ENGLISH CHURCH
SOCIETY IN THE STATE OF
NEW YORK, FOUNDED 1640.
Location: NYS 25, E. OF LAUREL LANE, LAUREL
TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
FIRST WHITE SETTLERS 1640
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1676.
OLDEST ENGLISH CHURCH
SOCIETY IN THE STATE OF
NEW YORK, FOUNDED 1640.
Location: PECONIC BAY BLVD. & LAUREL LA., SOUTH OF LAUREL
TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
FIRST WHITE SETTLERS 1640
GOV. ANDROSS PATENT 1676.
OLDEST ENGLISH CHURCH
SOCIETY IN THE STATE OF
NEW YORK, FOUNDED 1640.
Location: SOUND AVE., W. OF ALDRICH LA. NO. OF FRANKLINVILLE
[ARROW]
FOUNDERS' LANDING
ON SOUTHOLD BAY IN 1640
PURITANS FROM NORFOLK,
ENGLAND, LANDED FROM NEW
HAVEN COLONY TO FOUND
THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
Location: NYS 25, & HOBART AVE., SOUTHOLD

County: SULLIVAN
Town: CALLICOON, TOWN OF

CLARK TANNERY
CONTAINED 182, SQUARE VATS
PRODUCED 600, 051 LBS. SOLE
LEATHER IN 1865. RANKED
SECOND IN OUTPUT IN
SULLIVAN COUNTY
Location: ON SO. SIDE NYS 52 AT EASTERN END OF JEFFERSONVILLE
EARLY SAWMILL
BUILT 1834 BY SAM M. YOUNG
FOLLOWED IN TURN BY
TURNING MILL, APPLE
BRANDY DISTILLERY AND
MILK MANUFACTURING PLANT
Location: ON W. SIDE NYS 52 AT SOUTHERN END OF YOUNGSVILLE
FIRST CLEARING
IN 1807
J.S. JACKSON AND C. HURD
CLEARED OVER 100 ACRES
FOR JOHN DE WITT AT A COST
OF 163 19S
Location: ON NYS 52 1 MI. YOUNGSVILLE
HOME OF
GEORGE G. DE WITT
WHERE FIRST TOWN MEETING
WAS HELD MAY 3, 1842
500 FEET WEST
Location: ON W. SIDE NYS 52 BETWEEN FEFFERSONVILLE & YOUNGSVILLE
OLD TOLL ROAD
CALLICOON AND COCHECTON
TURNPIKE 1852
JOINED ERIE AT COCHECTON
WITH TANNERIES AT PIKE POND
JEFFERSONVILLE, YOUNGSVILLE
Location: ON E. SIDE NYS 52 MIDWAY BETWEEN JEFFERSONVILLE, & YOUNGSVILLE
OLD TURNPIKE
JEFFERSONVILLE TO
MONTICELLO
TOLL GATE TWO MILES
EAST OF THIS POINT
Location: ON NYS 52 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. N.E. JEFFERSONVILLE
SITE OF
FIRST HOUSE
IN YOUNGSVILLE
BUILT OF LOGS, 1834 BY
SAM M. YOUNG, FIRST SETTLER
FOR WHOM THE PLACE IS NAMED
Location: IN CENTER OF VLGE. YOUNGSVILLE IN FRONT OF JOHN PFIEFFLE RESIDENCE
SULLIVAN VOLKBLATT
LOCAL GERMAN LANGUAGE
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED HERE
1870
GERMAN LANGUAGE PREDOMINATED
HERE FOR FIFTY YEARS
Location: ON NO. SIDE MAIN ST. BETWEEN CENTER ST. & DELAWARE AV., VLGE. OF JEFFERSONV
TANNERY OF
HENRY INDERLIED
BEEF HIDES WERE CONVERTED
INTO SOLE LEATHER BY USE
OF LOCAL HEMLOCK BARK
1850
Location: ON SO. SIDE NYS 52 NEAR CENTER OF YOUNGSVILLE

County: SULLIVAN
Town: FORESTBURG, TOWN OF

BRANT'S CAMP
MOHAWK CHIEF WITH PLUNDER
AND CAPTIVES TAKEN IN RAID
ON MINISINK (PORT JERVIS)
CAMPED HERE OVER NIGHT
JULY 20, 1779
Location: ON W. SIDE NYS 42 2 MIS. SO. FORESTBURG CORNERS
INDIAN RAID
TWO CHILDREN OF JOHN
BROOKS AND SON-IN-LAW,
JOSEPH HUBBARD, WERE
KILLED HERE BY BRANT'S
MOHAWKS AND TORIES, 1778
Location: ON W. SIDE CO. RD. 49 ABOUT 1 MI. SO. OAKLAND
SAWMILL
BUILT 1873 BY WESTFALL &
CUDDEBACK. SAWED LUMBER
TO REBUILD HOUSES BURNED
BY BRANT IN MINISINK
(PORT JERVIS) 1778-79
Location: ON NO. SIDE CO. RD. 49 NEAR W. END BRIDGE OVER MINISINK R.

County: SULLIVAN
Town: HIGHLAND, TOWN OF

BATTLE OF MINISINK
ON THIS HILL, JULY 22, 1779
N.Y. AND N.J. MILITIA WERE
DECIMATED BY MOHAWK AND
TORY RAIDERS OF MINISINK,
(PORT JERVIS) UNDER BRANT
Location: ON NYS 97 ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF ENTRANCE TO BATTLEFIELD
BATTLE OF MINISINK
ONE OF THE DEADLIEST IN
FRONTIER WARFARE, BETWEEN
MILITIA AND BRANT'S TORIES
AND MOHAWKS, ON THIS HILL
JULY 22, 1779
Location: ON NYS 97 ABOUT 1 MI. WEST OF ENTRANCE TO BATTLEFIELD
BATTLE OF MINISINK
ENTRANCE TO BATTLEFIELD
WHERE JULY 22, 1779, N.Y.
AND N.J. MILITIA ATTACKED
MOHAWK AND TORY RAIDERS OF
MINISINK (PORT JERVIS)
Location: ON NYS 97 AT MINISINK FORD
BATTLE OF MINISINK
COL. JOSEPH BRANT LED 40
MOHAWKS AND TORIES UP THIS
RAVINE AND AMBUSHED N.Y.
AND N.J. MILITIA LYING FOR
HIM ON HILL TO THE WEST
Location: ON NYS 97 ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. E. OF MINISINK FORD
BRANT'S CAMP
THE MOHAWK LEADER OF RAID
ON MINISINK (PORT JERVIS)
CAMPED HERE JULY 21, 1779.
PURSUING MILITIA CAMPED 3
MILES UP THIS SAME BROOK
Location: ON NYS 97 AT BARRYVILLE
BRANT'S CROSSING
AFTER BATTLE OF MINISINK
BRANTS RAIDERS WITH THEIR
PLUNDER FORDED RIVER HERE
TO CAMP AT MOUTH OF THE
LACKAWAXEN CREEK OPPOSITE
Location: ON NYS 97 NEAR ENTRANCE TO BATTLEFIELD
BRIDGE
BUILT BY JOHN A. ROEBLING,
BUILDER OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE,
TO SUPPORT D. & H. CANAL
AQUEDUCT BY WHICH BOATS
CROSSED DELAWARE, 1848-98
Location: ON NYS 97 AT MINISINK FORD

County: SULLIVAN
Town: LIBERTY, TOWN OF

EARLY SETTLERS
JOSEPH AND EBENEZER HILL
CAME FROM CONN., 1807
BOUGHT 5000 ACRES IN
HARDENBERGH PATENT. JOSEPH
WAS CAPTAIN IN WAR OF 1812
Location: ON NYS 52 ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
FIRST HOUSE
IN
ROBERTSONVILLE
NOW CALLED
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
1812
Location: ON NYS 52, WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
ROBERTSONVILLE
JONATHAN BRADLEY ROBERTSON
CAME HERE FROM BRIDGEPORT,
CONN., 1807, WHEN IT WAS A
FOREST WILDERNESS. HE SERVED
IN WAR OF 1812
Location: ON NYS 52 AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS

County: SULLIVAN
Town: LUMBERLAND, TOWN OF

D. & H. CANAL
DRY DOCK AND BASIN
1828-1898
Location: ON NYS 97 AT MOUTH OF MILL BROOK NEAR POND EDDY

County: SULLIVAN
Town: MAMAKATING, TOWN OF

BLOOMINGBURGH
NAMED JULY 4, 1812, BY JAMES
NEWKIRK. FIRST SETTLER, CAPT.
JOHN NEWKIRK, PRIOR TO 1776.
FIRST SCHOOL, 1784, TAUGHT
BY MR. CAMPBELL
Location: ON NYS 17 AT BLOOMINGBURGH
BLOOMINGBURGH
SITE OF FIRST NEWSPAPER,
FIRST PRINTING OFFICE,
FIRST CIRCUIT COURT, AND
THE FIRST ACADEMY IN
SULLIVAN COUNTY
Location: ON NYS 17 AT BLOOMINGBURGH
BURLINGHAM
NAMED IN HONOR OF WALTER
BURLING, DIRECTOR OF ULSTER
AND ORANGE BRANCH TURNPIKE,
WHICH CROSSED SHAWANGUNK KILL
AT NEWKIRK'S MILLS, 1808
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT BURLINGHAM
EARLY ACADEMY
BLOOMINGBURGH ACADEMY
BUILT 1810, FIRST TEACHER
ALPHEUS DIMMICK, PRINCIPAL
SAMUEL PITTS, UNION COLLEGE.
HAD MANY FAMOUS GRADUATES
Location: ON NYS 17K AT WEST END OLD BRIDGE AT BLOOMINGBURGH
FORT DEVENS
1757 - ONE OF CHAIN OF FORTS
BUILT UNDER SUPERVISION OF
JAMES CLINTON, LATER
GENERAL CLINTON, DURING
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR
Location: ON US 209 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF WURTSBORO
MICHEL HELM
KILLED AND SCALPED HERE
DURING FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR,
WHILE ON WAY FROM VISITING
HIS DAUGHTER AT MINISINK,
TO HIS HOME IN ROCHESTER
Location: ON US 209 ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF WURTSBORO
ROOSA FORT
BUILDING STARTED BEFORE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR. LATER
OWNED AND COMPLETED BY
ABRAHAM ROOSA OR SON JACOB
WHO LIVED IN CABIN ON HILL
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT ROOSA GAP
WESTBROOK FORT
AND HOUSE BUILT ABOUT
1750-60 BY TJERCK VAN
KEUREN WESTBROOK. VILLAGE
OF WESTBROOKVILLE NAMED
IN HIS HONOR
Location: ON US 209 AT WESTBROOKVILLE

County: SULLIVAN
Town: NEVERSINK, TOWN OF

GRAHAMSVILLE
(FORMERLY - CHESTNUT WOODS)
NAMED FOR LT. JOHN GRAHAM
KILLED HERE WITH 17 OTHERS
SEPT. 5 1778, BY INDIANS
RAIDING THE RONDOUT VALLEY
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 42 & NYS 55 AT GRAHAMSVILLE

County: SULLIVAN
Town: ROCKLAND, TOWN OF

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JOHN KARST HOME
COLLECTION OF EARLY CRAFTS
BROUGHT HERE 1907 BY MASTER
WOOD ENGRAVER. MEETING PLACE
OF "DOWN RENTERS" OR "THE
SHEEPSKIN INDIANS", 1804
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF DE BRUCE
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JOHN KARST PRESERVE
HOME OF FAMOUS WOOD
ENGRAVER, ILLUSTRATOR OF
EARLY AMERICAN SCHOOL
BOOKS; MC GUFFY'S READERS.
BORN 1838-DIED 1922
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT DE BRUCE

County: SULLIVAN
Town: THOMPSON, TOWN OF

CAMP HOLLEY
ENCAMPMENT GROUND OF
143RD REGIMENT, NEW YORK
VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
AUG. 14 - OCT. 10, 1862
Location: ON NYS 42 NEAR KIAMESHA
FIRST HOUSE
IN MONTICELLO
BUILT BY JOHN P. JONES
FOUNDER OF VILLAGE
DECEMBER 1804
Location: ON NYS 17 AT MONTICELLO
METHODIST CHURCH
MONTICELLO, NEW YORK
ORGANIZED IN DISTRICTS,
1804; PRESENT CHURCH
BUILT 1844
Location: ON NYS 17 AT MONTICELLO
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
FIRST CHURCH
IN MONTICELLO
ESTABLISHED 1810
LOT GIFT OF JONES BROTHERS
Location: ON NYS 17 AT MONTICELLO
TOWN OF THOMPSON
NAMED FOR WILLIAM A THOMPSON
FIRST JUDGE OF SULLIVAN COUNTY
APPOINTED 1803
Location: AT BRIDGE NEAR OLD MLL, THOMPSONVILLE

County: SULLIVAN
Town: TUSTEN, TOWN OF

NEW YORK STATE
EXPLORED BY DUTCH, 1609
SETTLED BY DUTCH, 1624;
UNDER ENGLISH RULE AFTER
1664. NAMED FOR DUKE OF
YORK, LATER KING JAMES II
Location: ON NYS 52, DEL. R. BRIDGE. NAROWSBURG
TUSTEN
NAMED FOR LT. COL. BENJAMIN
TUSTEN OF GOSHEN MILITIA
SURGEON WHO GAVE HIS LIFE
TO ATTEND THE WOUNDED AT
THE BATTLE OF MINISINK
Location: ON NYS 97 NEAR OLD TUSTEN CHURCH, TUSTEN

County: TIOGA
Town: BARTON, TOWN OF

CARANTOUAN
SPANISH HILL, 650 FT. SOUTH
WHERE ETIENNE BRULE, SCOUT
OF CHAMPLAIN CAME IN 1615.
THE FIRST WHITE EXPLORER
KNOWN TO REACH THIS REGION
Location: ON NYS 17 AT W. END OF WAVERLY
ELLIS CREEK
NAMED IN HONOR OF
EBENEZER ELLIS,
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER.
PIONEER IN FOREST 1787
THIS COMMUNITY-ELLISTOWN
Location: ON NYS 17 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES EAST OF WAVERLY
MAUGHANTOWANO
WHERE IN SPRING OF 1779
ENCAMPED SAWYER AND COWLEY
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
WITH FOUR INDIAN CAPTORS
EN ROUTE TO BRITISH LINES
Location: ON NYS 17 ABOUT 4 1/2 MILES EAST OF WAVERLY
SITE OF
SHEPARD TAVERN
BUILT ABOUT 1816 BY
JOHN SHEPARD & ENLARGED
BY ISAAC SHEPARD IN 1825
DESTROYED BY FIRE 1853
Location: ON NYS 17 AT W. WAVERLY
THE FIRST
GRIST MILL
ON CAYUTA CREEK, BUILT
HERE SOON AFTER 1800 BY
GEORGE WALKER.
WAS ACTIVE FOR A CENTURY
Location: ON INTERSECTION NYS 17 & 34 AT NORTH END OF WAVERLY

County: TIOGA
Town: CANDOR, TOWN OF

JAMES MCMASTER
PIONEER, REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
TO WHOM WAS GRANTED TITLE
"MCMASTER'S HALF TOWNSHIP"
1788
LIES BURIED NEAR HERE
Location: ON CO. RD., N. END VLGE. OF CANDOR
LINE OF
ITHACA & OWEGO R.R.
INC. 1828
SECOND CHARTERED IN STATE
OPERATED BY HORSE POWER
FOR FIRST SIX YEARS
Location: ON NYS 223, VLGE. OF CANDOR

County: TIOGA
Town: NEWARK VALLEY, TOWN OF

"MAPLE TREE", BESIDE INDIAN TRAIL
FROM TIOGA POINT
TO ONONDOGA SALT-SPRINGS
1786 AMOS PATTERSON BLAZED
TREE TO BE PRESERVED WHEN
TRAIL WAS WIDENED INTO WAGON ROAD
Location: ON NYS 38, VILLAGE OF NEWARK VALLEY
WADE FARM
PURCHASED 1833 BY LEWIS WADE
1791-1862, MUSICIAN WAR OF 1812.
OWNED AND WORKED SUCCESSIVELY
BY LEWIS WADE; WILLIAM WADE;
EDGAR O. WADE; FLOYD E. WADE
Location: ON NYS 38 ABOUT 2 MIS. S.W. OF VILLAGE OF NEWARK VALLEY

County: TIOGA
Town: NICHOLS, TOWN OF

ASBURY CHURCH
ERECTED 1822-23
SOCIETY FORMED 1818 BY REV.
JOHN GRIFFING WITH MEMBERS
ELIJAH, PHEBE, ANN, MARIAH
AND DANIEL MCD. SHOEMAKER
Location: ON CO. RD. 5 MIS. WEST OF VILLAGE OF NICHOLS
BEFORE 1800 THIS ROAD LED
TO A FERRY ACROSS
THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER TO
TIOGA CENTER, OPERATED BY
JOHN DECKER AND GIDEON
CORTRIGHT, REV. SOLDIER
Location: ON NYS 283 AT LOUNSBERRY
COXE'S MANOR
31,470 ACRES OF LAND
ALONG THIS SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY
WERE GRANTED TO DANIEL COXE
AND ASSOCIATES BY THE CROWN
OF ENGLAND JANUARY 15, 1775
Location: ON NYS 283 ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES WEST OF OWEGO
LOUNSBERRY
FORMERLY NAMED
CANFIELD CORNERS
BENJAMIN LOUNSBERRY
SETTLED HERE IN 1793. EXRA
CANFIELD FIRST POSTMASTER
Location: ON NYS 283 AT LOUNSBERRY

County: TIOGA
Town: OWEGO, TOWN OF

1828
OLD ACADEMY BUILDING
ON THE SITE OF THE FIRST
SCHOOLHOUSE
OF OWEGO SETTLEMENT
BUILT OF LOGS ABOUT 1797
Location: ON COURT ST., VLGE. OF OWEGO
A LOG HOUSE
FIRST PERMANENT BUILDING
IN THIS PART OF THE VALLEY
BUILT 1785 NEAR HERE BY
JAMES MCMASTER & PARTY
Location: ON W. FRONT ST., VLGE. OF OWEGO
CAMPVILLE
NAMED IN HONOR OF
COL. ASA CAMP
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
WHO SETTLED HERE IN 1800
& CONDUCTED 1ST TAVERN
Location: ON NYS 17C ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF VILLAGE OF OWEGO
FIRST SAWMILL
IN OWEGO, BUILT BY
JAMES MCMASTER & AMOS DRAPER
BEFORE 1791, STOOD
JUST ABOVE THIS BRIDGE
Location: ON NYS 17 AT W. END VLGE. OWEGO
FIRST TAVERN
BUILT ON THIS SITE, 1795, BY
CAPTAIN LUKE BATES.
DESTROYED BY FIRE, 1829.
HERE WAS THE FIRST TOWN
MEETING OF OWEGO SETTLEMENT
Location: ON CHURCH ST., VLGE. OF OWEGO
ISAAC HARRIS
WHO SETTLED HERE IN 1786
WAS DELEGATE TO PHILADEL-
PHIA IN 1790 AND SECURED
SQUATTERS RIGHTS FROM THE
PATENTEES OF COXE'S MANOR
Location: ON OLD NYS 17 AT S. END OF VLGE. OF APALACHIN
ITHACA-OWEGO R.R.
SECOND CHARTERED IN STATE
INC. JUNE 28, 1828
CROSSED THE VILLAGE PARK
TO TERMINUS ON
SITE OF AHWAGA PARK
Location: ON NYS 17, VLGE. OF OWEGO
JAMES MC MASTER
IN 1788 WAS GRANTED TITLE
THROUGH THE INFLUENCE OF AMOS DRAPER TO
MCMASTER'S WEST HALF TOWNSHIP
THE SITE OF
PRESENT VILLAGE OF OWEGO
Location: ON NYS 17, VLGE. OF OWEGO
KA-NAU-KWIS
KNOWN AS CAPTAIN CORNELIUS,
IN TIME OF NEED HERE.
SUPPLIED VENISON AND
"CORN FLOUR" TO FAMILY OF
PIONEER BENANUELL DEUEL
Location: ON NYS 17, VLGE. OF OWEGO
NICHOLAS
DELAWARE WARRIOR
SUCCESSFUL FARMER AMONG
THE PIONEERS; WHOSE SQUAW
GAVE NAME TO SQUAW ISLAND,
CLAIMED THIS FLAT
Location: ON NYS283 ABOUT 1/4 MILE WEST OF VLGE. OF OWEGO
OWAGEO, AN ABANDONED
INDIAN VILLAGE OF TWENTY HOUSES WITH
FIELDS OF STANDING CORN, BURNT BY
ORDER OF GENERAL CLINTON
AUGUST 19, 1779, ENROUTE TO JOIN
GENERAL SULLIVAN
Location: ON NYS 17 AT N. END BRIDGE OVER SUSQUEHANNA R., VILGE. OF OWEGO
OWEGO
BIRTHPLACE OF ERIE
HERE WAS HELD CONVENTION
DECEMBER 20, 1831
TO FURTHER THE CHARTER OF
NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD
Location: ON NYS 96 AT ERIE R.R. CROSSING, VLGE. OF OWEGO
OWEGO AND ITHACA TURNPIKE
INCORPORATED BY ACT OF LEGISLATURE
APRIL 6, 1807
ROUTE GIVING OUTLET FOR TRAFFIC
FROM THE NORTH TO PENNSYLVANIA
AND MARYLAND MARKETS
Location: ON NYS 96 AT N. END, VLGE. OF OWEGO
OWEGO FEMALE SEMINARY
OPENED IN 1828
BY JULIETTE M. CAMP.
OWEGO FEMALE INSTITUTE
IN 1843 HEADED BY
PROF. AND MRS. JOSEPH M. ELY
Location: ON NYS 17C,VLGE. OF OWEGO
TAVERN - 1831
BUILT BY PIONEER MERCHANT
RANSOM STEELE
THE BARNABY ACADEMY
WAS LOCATED HERE SEVERAL
YEARS DURING THE CIVIL WAR
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT APALACHIN
THE CAYUGA LAKE TRAIL
HERE JOINED
THE SUSQUEHANNA TRAIL
BOTH THOROUGH FARES FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL
OF THE SIX NATIONS
WHICH IN 1712
FORMED THE IROQUOIS COMMUNITY
Location: ON FRONT ST., VLGE. OF OWEGO
TOLL BRIDGE
OF 1828, SWEPT AWAY BY
FLOOD OF 1867.
TRESTLE BRIDGE OF 1868,
PURCHASED BY VILLAGE, 1881.
STEEL BRIDGE ERECTED, 1893.
Location: ON NYS 17 AT S. END OF BRIDGE OVER SUSQUEHANNA RIVER
TURNPIKE
IN 1822 THE SHORTEST ROUTE
FROM OWEGO TO NEW YORK VIA
MONTROSE, DUNDAFF, MILFORD,
NEWTON, MORRISTOWN, NEWARK
NUMEROUS HILLS & TOLLGATES
Location: ON NYS 283, VILLAGE OF OWEGO

County: TIOGA
Town: RICHFORD, TOWN OF

DUNHAMVILLE
EXPERIMENTAL CITY STATE
PROPOSED IN 1828 BY
WM. DUNHAM, MERCHANT,
FIRST POSTMASTER, AND
SUPERVISOR OF RICHRORD.
Location: ON NYS 38 ABOUT 1/2 MILE S. OF VILLAGE OF RICHFORD
EARLY TURNPIKE
COMMISSION OF 1797:
"TO LAY OUT THE ROAD LEADING
FROM CATSKILL LANDING
TO CATHERINESTOWN
IN THE COUNTY OF TIOGA."
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 38 & 79 AT VLGE. OF RICHFORD
FIRST CHURCH
ORGANIED 1821, BUILT 1823
BY PURITAN SETTLERS.
REBUILT IN 1854. ORIGINAL
BELL NOW IN USE
Location: ON NYS 38, VLGE. OF RICHFORD
PUBLIC SQUARE
GRANTED BY DEED TO THE
TOWN OF RICHFORD
BY THE PIONEERS
EZEK. RICH & STEPHEN WELLS
OCTOBER 9, 1821
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 38 & 79 AT VLGE. OF RICHFORD
SITE OF
THE OLD ABBEY
BUILT 1813 BY SAMUEL SMITH
WHO KEPT A TAVERN HERE.
THE RICHFORD POST OFFICE
ESTABLISHED HERE IN 1830.
Location: ON NYS 38, VLGE. OF RICHFORD

County: TIOGA
Town: SPENCER, TOWN OF

SITE OF OLD COURT HOUSE
BUILDING BURNED IN 1821
THIS LOT WAS COUNTY PROPERTY
SPENCER WAS THE COUNTY SEAT
FROM 1811 TO 1812
DESTROYED BY FIRE 1821
Location: ON NYS 34, VLGE. OF SPENCER

County: TOMPKINS
Town: CAROLINE, TOWN OF

1ST TOWN MEETING
HELD HERE IN BUSH
TAVEN, MADE OF HEWN LOGS;
APRIL 1811
WILLIAM ROUNSVELL, SUPERVISOR
CAPT. LEVI SLATER, TOWN CLERK
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF SLATERVILLE SPRINGS
BLAIR HOMESTEAD
BIRTHPLACE OF AUSTIN BLAIR
CIVIL WAR GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN
SON OF GEORGE BLAIR
PIONEER SETTLER 1809
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 2 MILES N. OF SPEEDSVILLE
CABIN SITE
CABIN BUILT BY MARIA
EARSLEY, 1794, FOR HOME.
FIRST SETTLER IN CAROLINE.
FIRST TRIP FROM ROXBURY, N.J.
ON HORSEBACK WITH SON, JOHN
Location: ON NYS 79 AT CAROLINE
CAMPING GROUND
CHIEF WHEELOCK
ONEIDA INDIAN
CHIEF KILLED IN ACTION
WAR OF 1812
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 3/4 MILE W. OF SLATERVILLE SPRINGS
DEERLICKS
ON '76 ROAD EXTENSION
INDIANS AND EARLY SETTLERS
HERE OBTAINED THEIR SALT
'76 ROAD BUILT BY
AUGUSTINE BOYER, 1804
Location: ON NYS 330 ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF BROOKTONDALE
DUTCH REFORMED
CHURCH SITE-CEMETERY-1820
FIRST CHURCH IN CAROLINE
BUILT 1820-ORGANIZED 1810
BY THE FIRST DOMINIE
REV. GARRET MANDEVILLE
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 1 MILE W. OF SLATERVILLE SPGS.
HOME OF
NATHANIEL TOBEY
WHO EMIGRATED FROM BRISTOL
CO., MASS. BUILT MANY NEW
ENGLAND STYLE HOMES HERE, 1810
Location: ON NYS 79 AT CAROLINE
OLD GENUNG FARM
LOT 93 WAS CLEARED BY
MOSES AND BENJAMIN GENUNG,
BROTHERS, NEW JERSEY REV.
SOLDIERS. CABIN BUILT IN
1800. OWNED BY FAMILY 125 YRS.
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 2 1/4 MILES WEST OF SLATERVILLE SPGS.
OLD RICH TAVERN
BUILT AND CONDUCTED BY
CAPTAIN DAVID RICH WHO
EMIGRATED HERE FROM
VERMONT 1795. ALSO SITE
OF CAPT. RICH'S LOG CABIN,
ALSO WAS A TAVERN.
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF CAROLINE
OLD TOBEY TAVERN
BUILT 1808. INN KEEPERS,
GEORGE VICKORY AND NATHANIEL
TOBEY. ONCE TOBEYTOWN.
NOW VILLAGE OF CAROLINE
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 1/2 MILE W. OF CAROLINE
QUICK HOMESTEAD
BUILT IN 1823 BY HENRY
QUICK AND WIFE SALLY
EARSLEY, WHO CAME WITH
FIRST SETTLER FROM ROXBURY
(MONTCLAIR) NEW JERSEY, 1794
Location: ON NYS 330 ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES EAST OF BROOKTONDALE
SETTLERS CABIN
BUILT BY BENONI MULKS
NEAR SPRING 1798-1801
ORIGINAL FIREPLACE STAND-
BOYCEVILLE'S
FIRST SETTLEMENT
Location: ON NYS 79, SLATERVILLE SPGS.
SITE OF
SPEED BLOCKHOUSE
BUILT 1806 OF SQUARED LOGS
BY JOHN JAMES SPEED.
POST OFFICE HERE 1806 CALLED
SPEEDSVILLE. CATSKILL TURNPIKE
FROM CATSKILL TO BATH, 1804
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES W. OF CAROLINE
SLATERVILLE
MAGNETIC MINERAL SPRINGS
DISCOVERED IN THIS VALLEY BY
DR. WILLIAM C. GALLAGHER
WHO SUNK THE 1ST ARTESIAN
WELL HERE IN 1871
Location: ON NYS 79 AT SLATERVILLE SPGS.
SOUTH ENTRANCE TO
"SIX HUNDRED FOREST"
GORGE OF UPPER SIX MILE
CREEK. SITE OF OLD "BOTTOM
MILL", SAWMILL BUILT 1808
BY ELIJAH POWERS, PIONEER SETTLER.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF SLATERVILLE SPRINGS
SPEEDSVILLE
COMMONS
INCORPORATED STATE PARK, 1858
LABAN JENKS EARLY SETTLER
BUILT HOUSE IN 1819
Location: ON CO. RD. AT SPEEDSVILLE
SPRINGFARM
OLD PLANTATION HOME OF
DR. JOSEPH SPEED, VIRGINIA
PIONEER, 1805.
LEVEL GREEN ROAD;
CAROLINE ONCE CALLED SPENCER
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3/4 MILE SOUTH OF CAROLINE
WEST OWEGO CREEK, N.W.
BOUNDARY "BOSTON PURCHASE"
230,400 ACRES OF INDIAN LAND
CEDED BY NEW YORK TO MASS.
1787, TO SETTLE BOUNDARY DISPUTE
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 1/2 MILES EAST OF SLATERVILLE SPRINGS
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SLAVE BURYING GROUND
45 RODS EAST OF THIS POINT
IN EDGE OF WOODS ARE
BURIED 14 SLAVES
OWNED BY RESIDENTS
OF TOWN OF CAROLINE
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH OF ELLIS

County: TOMPKINS
Town: DANBY, TOWN OF

NEW JERUSALEM
CHURCH SITE
ORGANIZED 1816, BUILT 1824
FOUNDED BY DR. LEWIS BEERS
PHYSICIAN, PASTOR, JUSTICE
AND PIONEER SETTLER, 1797
Location: ON NYS 96 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF DANBY
THIS WAS THE
FIRST CHURCH
IN THE TOWN OF DANBY
ORGANIZED 1807
ERECTED 1813
Location: ON NYS 96 AT DANBY

County: TOMPKINS
Town: DRYDEN, TOWN OF

1ST BAPTIST CHURCH
DRYDEN, 1830. ORGANIZED 1804
1ST CHURCH BUILT, 1807
REV. JOHN LASURE, 1ST PASTOR
Location: ON CO. RD. AT ETNA
BIRTHPLACE OF
WILLIAM R. "DADDY" GEORGE
1866-1936
FOUNDER OF
GEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF WEST DRYDEN
FIRST ROAD
IN TOMPKINS COUNTY FROM
EAST. USED BY MANY EARLY
SETTLERS. STARTED BY JOSEPH
CHAPLIN; CONTRACTOR, MAY 5,
1792. COMPLETED IN 1795
Location: ON CO. RD. AT MALLORYVILLE
FIRST ROAD
IN TOMPKINS COUNTY FROM
EAST. USED BY MANY EARLY
SETTLERS. STARTED BY JOSEPH
CHAPLIN; CONTRACTOR, MAY 5,
1792. COMPLETED IN 1795
Location: ON NYS 13 ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF DRYDEN
INDIAN CAMP
HUNTING AND FISHING
GROUNDS ON DRYDEN LAKE.
ARROWS, SINKERS AND
FLINTS ABOUND IN
GREAT NUMBERS
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DRYDEN
JOHN MILLER
FIRST GOVERNOR OF
NORTH DAKOTA
BORN HERE IN
TOWN OF DRYDEN
INAUGURATED 1889
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF WILLOW GLEN
MALLORYVILLE
SETTLED BY SAMUEL MALLORY
IN 1826 WHO OPERATED HERE
CHAIR AND CLOTH FACTORIES.
ONCE SITE OF HOWE AND WATSON
AND WADE COOPERAGES
Location: ON CO. RD. AT MALLORYVILLE
MALLORYVILLE
ABOUT 1845 WILLIAM TRAPP
HERE INVENTED THE FIRST
SUCCESSFUL BARREL-MAKING
MACHINE. HAMLET LATER
BECAME COOPERAGE CENTER
Location: ON CO. RD. AT MALLORYVILLE
ONE MILE EAST ON HILL LOG CABIN
SITE OF BIRTHPLACE JOHN MC GRAW,
1815-1877. DONOR MC GRAW HALL,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
FATHER OF JENNIE MC GRAW FISKE,
CORNELL BENEFACTRESS
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 4 MILES S. OF WILLOW GLEN
THE BRIDLE ROAD
VIRGIL TO ITHACA 1795
BUILT BY JOSEPH CHAPLIN
DRYDEN CENTER HOUSE
BUILT BY BENJ. ALDRICH
TOWN MEETINGS HELD HERE
Location: ON NYS 13 ABOUT 2 1/4 MILES WEST OF DRYDEN
UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD
HOME OF WILLIAM HANFORD
AND WIFE ALTHA C. TODD,
WHO SHELTERED FUGITIVE SLAVES
ON WAY TO CANADA AND FREEDOM
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF ETNA
UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD
HOME OF HANANIAH WILCOX
AND WIFE NANCY ANN PRICE
WHO SHELTERED AND ASSISTED
FUGITIVE SLAVES ON WAY TO CANADA
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT ETNA
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WAGONSHED WHEREIN
WILLIAM R. GEORGE CONCEIVED
OF THE JUNIOR REPUBLIC
THE YOUTHFUL VILLAGE WHOSE
MOTTO IS "NOTHING WITHOUT
LABOR" WAS FOUNDED JULY 10, 1895
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3/4 MILE WEST OF WEST DRYDEN

County: TOMPKINS
Town: ENFIELD, TOWN OF

APPLEGATE TAVERN
BUILT BY JOHN APPELGATE,
1807. SETTLED IN TOWN 1805.
1ST SCHOOLHOUSE IN TOWN
N. OF TAVERN, ERECTED 1809
APPLEGATE'S CORNERS
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 5 MIS. W. OF ITHACA
INDIAN SITE
EARLY IROQUOIAN VILLAGE
ARROWS, CRACKED BONES, BEADS,
COOKING STONES, FLINT, PIECES
OF IROQUOIAN POTTERY FOUND
Location: ON TOWN RD. ALONG SCHUYLER-TOMPKINS CO. LINE ABOUT 1 MI. N. NYS 79
INDIAN VILLAGE
CIRCULAR PALISADE AROUND
POND. WALL SOUTH FROM GATE
IMMENSE EARLY IROQUOIAN SITE
HERE THE INDIANS
OBTAINED CLAY FOR POTTERY
Location: ON TOWN RD. ALONG SCHUYLER-TOMPKINS CO. LINE ABOUT 2 MI. N. NYS 79
VAN DORN
TAVERN SITE
BUILT BY PETER VAN DORN
A CATSKILL TURNPIKE
MILESTONE STOOD AT
VAN DORN'S CORNERS
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 4 MIS. W. OF ITHACA
WALLENBECK INN
ROUTE OF CATSKILL TURNPIKE
FIRST ROAD BUILT IN TOWN.
OLD POST ROAD AND STAGE
ROUTE USED FROM MECKLENBURG
TO KIRBY'S, 1826
Location: ON TOWN RD. ALONG SCHUYLER-TOMPKINS CO. LINE ABOUT 1 MI. S. NYS 79

County: TOMPKINS
Town: GROTON, TOWN OF

CHARLES W. SANDERS
1805-1889
AUTHOR OF SCHOOL BOOKS
RESIDED IN WEST DRYDEN
AND COMPLETED HIS
"FIRST SPELLER" HERE
Location: ON SOBERS ROAD, TOWN OF GROTON
CONGREATIONAL CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1816, BUILT 1832
FIRST SERVICE MAY3, 1833
CENTENNIAL JULY 16, 1916
WEST GRONTON, N.Y.
Location: ON CO. RD. AT WEST GROTON
CUMMINGS HOME
GURDON CUMMINGS AND WIFE
ABIGAIL PETTIS FROM MANSFIELD,
CONN., SETTLED HERE IN 1810.
OWNED AND OCCUPIED BY FOUR
GENERATIONS OF CUMMINGS.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. S. OF SUMMER HILL
ELM TREE INN
SITE OF 1ST LOG TAVERN
IN MC LEAN BUILT BY AMASA
COBB, 1796. GIANT ELM WAS
NATIVE FOREST SAPLING
WHEN TAVERN WAS BUILT
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT MCLEAN
INDIAN VILLAGE
FAVORITE HUNTING GROUND
OF CAYUGA INDIANS
AND OTHER LOCAL TRIBES
NEAR OWASCO CREEK
PERUTONS-GROTON TOWNSHIP
Location: ON NYS 38 ABOUT 3 MIS. S. OF GROTON
OLD BAPTIST
CHURCH-1828
FOUNDER REV. BENJ. WHIPPLE
1ST PASTOR REV. P.L. PLATT
MEETINGS HELD SINCE 1805
Location: ON CO. RD. AT MCLEAN
OLD EAST GROTON
CEMETERY AND 1ST CHURCH
KNOWN AS E. CONGREGATIONAL.
ORG. 1805. SITE AT STICKLES
CORNERS. BUILT OF LOGS 1810
1ST PASTOR, JOSHUA LAND, 1809
Location: ON NYS 222 ABOUT 2 MIS. E. OF GROTON
OLD MILL SITE
LAFAYETTE GRISTMILL
BUILT BY GEORGE FISH, 1818
NAMED SAME DAY GENERAL
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
VISITED AUBURN, 1825
Location: ON NYS 222 AT LAFAYETTE
SYLVESTER PENNOYER
1831-1902
BORN HERE; GOV. OF OREGON 1886-94
MAYOR CITY OF PORTLAND, OREGON,
1896; OWNER AND EDITOR OREGON
HERALD, 1868-71
Location: ON NYS 38 AT GROTON

County: TOMPKINS
Town: ITHACA, CITY OF

CAYUGA INDIAN
WINTER QUARTERS
LOCATED ON EXPOSED
FLATLANDS OF THIS GORGE
BELOW WELLS FALLS
Location: ON COLUMBIA ST.
END OF TURNPIKE
WEST TO OLD BOAT LANDING
EAST THROUGH LANSING
"ENTERPRISE" FIRST STEAMBOAT
LAUNCHED ON LAKE 1820
ROUND TRIP TWO DAYS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF AURORA ST. & RAILROAD AVE.
HOMESITE AND BURIAL
PLACE OF SIMEON DEWITT
B. 1756 D. 1834, SURVEYOR
GENERAL IN NEW YORK STATE
REMAINS REMOVED TO
ALBANY RURAL CEMETERY 1854.
Location: ON DEWITT PLACE
OLD HOMESTEAD
REV. DR. SAMUEL PARKER
HERE IN 1833 PLANNED,
WITH MARCUS WHITMAN
PIONEER MISSIONARY JOURNEY
WHICH SAVED OREGON TO UNION
INDIAN CEMETARY ON ESTATE.
Location: ON PARKER PLACE
OLDEST HOUSE
IN TOMPKINS COUNTY, BUILT
ABOUT 1800 BY ABRAM MARKLE,
SOLD TO SIMEON DE WITT AND
USED AS INITIAL POINT OF
SURVEY FOR EARLLY TURNPIKES
Location: ON LINN ST.
ORIGINAL LANE
USED BY FIRST SETTLERS:
YAPLE AND DUMOND NEAR
STATE ST.; HENNEPAW ON
CASCADILLA CREEK
Location: ON EAST BUFFALO ST.
OWEGO-ITHACA
TURNPIKE, 1811-1841
R.R. INC. 1828, OPENED 1834
2ND R.R. CHARTERED IN STATE
INCLINED PLANE 480 FT. EAST
Location: ON NYS 96, S END ITHACA
SITE OF
FIRST COURT HOUSE
A PRIMITIVE HALL OF JUSTICE
BUILT OF WOOD IN 1818
ERECTION PREVENTED TOMPKINS
CO. FROM BEING REANNEXED TO
SENECA AND CAYUGA COUNTIES
Location: ON COURT ST.
SITE OF FIRST
PERMANENT SETTLEMENT 1788, YAPLE & DUMOND CABINS
BEGINNING OF SOUTHERN
CAYUGA INDIAN TRAIL
Location: ON EAST STATE ST.
TOLLGATE HOUSE
ONCE STOOD UPON ROAD
AND TRAFFIC PASSED THROUGH
OWEGO-ITHACA TURNPIKE
SURVEYED AS EAST ROAD 1792
ON INDIAN TRAILS
Location: ON NYS 34 AT N. BANK OF FALL CREEK AT LAKE ST. BRIDGE
TURNPIKE
FROM CATSKILL TO BATH
RAN ORIGINALLY THROUGH
STATE (OWEGO) ST. MAIL TO
WESTERN SETTLEMENTS CARRIED
OVER THIS TURNPIKE
Location: ON EAST STATE ST.

County: TOMPKINS
Town: ITHACA, TOWN OF

CATSKILL
TURNPIKE
STAGE COACH ROUTE FROM
CATSKILL TO BATH 1815. OLD
POST ROAD & MAIL ROUTE
BETWEEN WATKINS & ITHACA
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 1/2 MI. W. OF ITHACA
COREORGONEL
(WHERE WE KEEP PIPE OF PEACE)
CAYUGA INDIAN VILLAGE
IROQUOIS SIX NATIONS
DESTROYED BY SULLIVAN'S ARMY
SEPTEMBER 24-25, 1779
Location: ON NYS 13 & 34 ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. S.W. ITHACA
FISHER'S TAVERN
JACKSON'S TAVERN AND
TOLLGATE SITES 3/10 MILE
SOUTH IRISH HILL ROAD
CORDUROY UNTIL 1853
RENAMED NEWFIELD ROAD 1903
Location: ON NYS 13 & 34 ABOUT 2 MIS. S.W. ITHACA
LINDERMAN TAVERN
BUILT BY CORNELIUS LINDERMAN
SETTLED IN TOWN 1802
SITE OF LOG CABIN
PANORAMA OF CAYUGA LAKE
AND CITY OF ITHACA
Location: ON NYS 79 ABOUT 1/2 MI. W. OF ITHACA
OLD STONE HEAP
DAVENPORT'S TAVERN-LOT 87
HERE ABNER TREMAN SPENT THE
NIGHT ON HIS RETURN, 1793-
1794, TO HIS CLAIM, NOW THE
VILLAGE OF TRUMANSBURG
Location: STATE HIGHWAY, E SIDE OF ROAD, 200 YARDS N. OF ITHICA CITY LINE, AT POINT WERE WILLIAMS BROOK CROSSES

County: TOMPKINS
Town: LANSING, TOWN OF

LUDLOW INN 1795
FIRST LOG TAVERN, 1792
LOG GRISTMILL, 1795
BUILT BY MAJ. THOMAS LUDLOW
EARLY SETTLERS--SILAS, HENRY
AND THOMAS LUDLOW, 1791
Location: ON CO. RD. AT LUDLOWVILLE
LUDLOWVILLE-MEYERS
DETACHMENT OF GEN. JOHN
SULLIVAN'S ARMY UNDER
COL. BUTLER CAMPED ON THESE
HEIGHTS SEPT. 24, 1779.
ANDREW MYERS, PIONEER, 1791
Location: ON HGTS. W. OF NYS 34B BETWEEN LUDLOWVILLE & MYERS
ROGUES HARBOR INN
1830, BUILT BY D.D. MINIER
SON OF GEN. ABRAM MINIER
WHO LOCATED IN TOWN 1788
AND LIVED ON SITE 1792
LIBERTYVILLE NOW S. LANSING
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 34 & 34B AT SOUTH LANSING

County: TOMPKINS
Town: NEWFIELD, TOWN OF

CONNECTICUT HILL
BORN HERE, JULY 22, 1855, TO
FOREST ERVAY AND WIFE, FOUR
CHILDREN, KNOWN AS ERVAY
QUADRUPLETS; ON EXHIBITION
FOR SEVERAL YEARS
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 3 MIS. W. OF TRUMBULL CORNERS
CONNECTICUT HILL
EARLY CALLED SAXTON HILL
HIGHEST ELEVATION (2097.2 FT)
IN TOMPKINS COUNTY. ONCE
OWNED BY STATE OF
CONNECTICUT
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 3 MIS. W. OF TRUMBULL CORNERS

County: TOMPKINS
Town: ULYSSES, TOWN OF

ABNER TREMAN
FIRST SETTLER AND
FOUNDER OF TRUMANSBURG
BUILT HIS LOG HOUSE
NEAR THIS SPOT
IN 1792
Location: ON NYS 96 AT TRUMANSBURG
ALGONKIAN SITE
INDIAN VILLAGE
EXTENDING FROM MOUTH OF
CREEK TO FALLS
Location: IN TAUGHANNOCK FALLS STATE PARK
CAMP HOUSE
BUILT IN 1848 BY
HERMAN CAMP
COLONEL OF CAVALRY
NIGARA FRONTIER
WAR OF 1812
Location: ON LAWN ST., TRUMANSBURG
CAMP SITE
CAPTIAN JONATHAN WOODWORTH
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER,
NAVIGATOR AND SURVEYOR
WITH EXPLORING EXPEDITION
CAMPED HERE IN JUNE 1788
Location: IN TAUGHANNOCK FALLS STATE PK.
CAYUGA INDIAN
FORT AND BURIAL GROUND
EARTH WORK ON NORTH SIDE
BURIAL GROUND OPPOSITE
CIRCULAR EARTH WORKS S.E.
BLUFF SUPPORTED PALISADE
Location: ON TN RD. ABOUT 1/2 MILE WEST OF WATERBURY
HALSEY HOUSE
BUILT 1829
BY NICHOLL HALSEY
FIRST SETTLER & FOUNDER
OF HALSEYVILLE
Location: ON NYS 96 AT HALSEYVILLE
OLD COOPER INN
BUILT BY THOMAS COOPER, 1823
PIONEER SETTLER, 1799
ITHACA-GENEVA TURNPIKE
STATE COACH ROUTE
AND POST ROAD, 1811
Location: ON NYS 96 AT JACKSONVILLE
SAMUEL WEYBURN
SETTLED HERE IN 1790
THE HOSPITALITY OF HIS LOG
CABIN HOME SAVED LIFE OF
ABNER TREMAN, REV. SOLDIER
CAUGHT IN BLIZZARD 1793-4
Location: IN TAUGHANNOCK FALLS STATE PK.

County: ULSTER
Town: ESOPUS, TOWN OF

CHURCH OF THE
ASCENSION
ESOPUS
BUILT 1842
Location: US 9W AT WEST PARK
[ARROW]
JOHN BURROUGHS
1 1/2 MILES WESTWARD IS
"SLABSIDES", RUSTIC CABIN
OF THE POET-NATURALIST,
WHERE HE SPENT MUCH TIME
IN THE LATE 90'S AND EARLY 1900'S
Location: BROADWAY & PARK LA., IN WEST PARK

County: ULSTER
Town: HURLEY, TOWN OF

GENERAL WASHINGTON
WAS GIVEN A PUBLIC
RECEPTION HERE ON HIS
JOURNEY FROM WEST POINT
TO KINGSTON, NOV. 16, 1782
Location: N.E. CORNER ZANDHOECK RD. & MILLBROOK AVE. IN HURLEY
OLD GUARD HOUSE
LIEUT. DAVID TAYLOR,
BRITISH SPY, WAS
CONFINED IN THIS HOUSE AND
HANGED ON AN APPLE TREE,
OCTOBER 18, 1777
Location: US 209 AT HURLEY
OLD MINE ROAD
ESOPUS-MINISINK TRAIL
INDIAN TRAIL CONNECTING
DELAWARE VALLEY WITH HUDSON
RIVER. USED BEFORE AND
DURING REVOLUTION
Location: US 209 AT HURLEY
VAN DEUSEN HOUSE
BUILT 1723
TEMPORARY CAPITOL OF STATE
AFTER BURNING OF KINGSTON
1777
Location: US 209 AT HURLEY

County: ULSTER
Town: KINGSTON, CITY OF

ELMENDORF TAVERN
MEETING PLACE
STATE COMMITTEE
OF SAFETY
1777
Location: SE CORNER MAIDEN LA. & FAIR ST.
FIRST
KINGSTON ACADEMY
FOUNDED 1774 BY
TRUSTEES OF TOWN OF KINGSTON
Location: SW CORNER JOHN & CROWN STS.
PLAN OF KINGSTON
STOCKADE (WILTWYCK)
FORT (F) AND 1658
STREETS
SITE OF
OLD STOCKADE 1658
N.E. BASTION AND BLOCKHOUSE
Location: N. FRONT ST. & CLINTON AVE.
SITE OF
OLD BLOCKHOUSE
BUILT 1658
Location: S.W. CORNER MAIN & FAIR STS.
SITE OF
TAPPEN HOUSE
OCCUPIED BY GEORGE CLINTON
WHILE GOVERNOR OF STATE
Location: S.W. CORNER N. FRONT & WALL STS.
SITE OF
BOGARDUS TAVERN
FIRST MEETING PLACE
NEW YORK STATE
ASSEMBLY
SEPTEMBER 10TH 1777
Location: N.W. CORNER MAIDEN LA. & FAIR ST.
VAN KEUREN HOMESTEAD
BURNED BY BRITISH OCT. 17,
1777. REBUILT AND OCCUPIED
BY DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF
ORIGINAL OWNER SINCE THEN.
Location: ST. JAMES ST. BETWEEN PINE & CLINTON AVES.

County: ULSTER
Town: LLOYD, TOWN OF

COLONEL DEYO HOME
ERECTED 1805
BUILT AND OCCUPIED BY
COLONEL JACOB DEYO
8TH REGIMENT, NEW YORK
STATE GUARD
Location: NYS 55 E. OF TRAFFIC CIRCLE
ELTING HOMESTEAD
BUILT BY PHILIP ELTING 1817
WHO FOUNDED VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND
ON HIS FARM WHICH WAS DEVISED BY
HIS GRANDFATHER ABRAHAM ELTING
TO NOAH ELTING APRIL 1797
Location: MAIN ST., S. OF ELTING PL., IN HIGHLAND
ELTING'S LANDING
BOMBARDED BY BRITISH 1777
NOAH ELTING'S FERRY 1793
HORSE DRAWN FLAT BOAT 1819
"DUTCHESS AND ULSTER", STEAM
POWER FERRY EST. 1830
Location: W. OF R.R., NEAR RIVER IN HIGHLAND
HIGHLAND LANDING
YELVERTON'S LANDING 1777
VALENTINE BAKER'S LANDING 1786
NEW PALTZ LANDING 1798
THE TOWN'S SHIPPING CENTER
FOR A CENTURY AND A HALF
Location: E. END OF MAIN ST., HIGHLAND
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
ORGANIZED MAY 26, 1792, AS
THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGA-
TION OF NEW PALTZ. PRESENT
EDIFICE ERECTED 1844.
Location: CHURCH & GROVE STS, IN HIGHLAND
REVOLUTIONARY
DRILL FIELD 1775
9TH COMPANY THIRD
ULSTER COUNTY REGIMENT
COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN
PELEG RANSOM
Location: US 9W S. OF TRAFFIC CIRCLE
ULSTER COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683,
RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM
THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND
OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.
Location: NYS 55 AT W. ENTRANCE TO MID-HUDSON BRIDGE

County: ULSTER
Town: MARBLETOWN, TOWN OF

1 1/2 MILE
SITE OF
CLOVE REFORMED CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1807.
MOVED TO PRESENT SITE
IN HIGH FALLS 1867
Location: NYS 213 AT HIGH FALLS
DAVIS TAVERN
FOR MANY YEARS BEFORE AND
AFTER THE REVOLUTION, THE
PUBLIC BUSINESS OF THE
TOWN OF MARBLETOWN WAS
TRANSACTED HERE.
Location: US 209 AT MARBLETOWN
OLD DEPUY HOUSE
BUILT IN 1797 BY S. AND A. DEPUY
WHO KEPT A TAVERN HERE.
Location: NYS 213 AT HIGH FALLS
OLIVER HOUSE
IN ORIGINAL ANDREW OLIVER
HOUSE HERE, THE NEW YORK
LEGISLATURE MET FOR ONE
MONTH, AFTER BURNING OF
KINGSTON, OCTOBER, 1777.
Location: US 209 AT MARBLETOWN
SCHOONMAKER HOME
BUILT IN 1760 BY
CAP. FREDERICK SCHOONMAKER,
REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; HOME
FORTIFIED AND USED AS PLACE
OF REFUGE DURING THE WAR.
Location: NYS 213, E. OF HIGH FALLS, AT COXEN CREEK BRIDGE
SITE OF
COLONIAL CHURCH
HERE STOOD THE EARLIEST
CHURCH IN THIS VICINITY,
ORGANIZED 1737, BUILT 1746,
THE FIRST MINISTER WAS
BURIED BENEATH THE PULPIT
Location: US 209 AT MARBLETOWN
TACK TAVERN
HOME OF JOHANNES TACK,
WHERE COURT CONVENED AFTER
BURNING OF KINGSTON BY THE
BRITISH, OCTOBER, 1777.
FIRST SCHOOL WAS NEARBY.
Location: US 209 AT STONE RIDGE
[ARROW]
OLD STONE AQUEDUCT
BUILT IN 1825 BY D. & H.
CANAL CO.; COMPLETED 1828;
ENLARGED IN 1842 AND 1851;
ABANDONED FEB. 23, 1899.
Location: NYS 213 AT HIGH FALLS
[ARROW]
DISCOVERY OF CEMENT
AT BRUCEVILLE, NATHANIEL
BRUCE, BURNED IN A BLACKSMITH'S
FORGE, SOME NATIVE ROCK AND
DISCOVERED CEMENT IN 1818.
Location: NYS 213 AT HIGH FALLS
[ARROW]
JOHN BURROUGHS
AMERICAN NATURALIST
TAUGHT SCHOOL AT HIGH FALLS
IN 1857 NEAR PRESENT BUILDING
Location: CHURCH ST., S. OF NYS 213 IN HIGH FALLS

County: ULSTER
Town: NEW PALTZ, TOWN OF

BEVIER HOUSE
BUILT BY LOUIS BEVIER,
THE PATENTEE, IN 1698.
ELTING HOMESTEAD FROM
1740. THIS HOUSE HAS AN
INTERESTING SUB-CELLAR
Location: SE CORNER HUGUENOT ST. & BROADHEAD AVE., NEW PALTZ
DEYO HOUSE
BUILT BY PIERRE DEYO,
ONE OF TWELVE ORIGINAL
PATENTEES OF NEW PALTZ,
IN 1692.
Location: HUGUENOT ST., IN NEW PALTZ
DIE PFALZ
A FRENCH HUGUENOT VILLAGE
GOVERNED BY "THE DUSINE",
A BODY OF 12 MEN CHOSEN
ANNUALLY. FOR 100 YEARS THE
ONLY FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
Location: HUGUENOT & N. FRONT STS., IN NEW PALTZ
DUBOIS HOUSE
THE FORT BUILT IN 1705
BY DANIEL DUBOIS. SITE
FIRST REDOUBT. THERE ARE
PORT HOLES IN THE EAST END.
Location: HUGUENOT ST., IN NEW PALTZ
DUBOIS HOUSE
BUILT IN 1755 BY
BENJAMIN DUBOIS,
GRANDSON OF ISAAC DUBOIS,
NEW PALTZ PATENTEE.
Location: CO. RD., W. OF NEW PALTZ 4 1/2 MIS. N. OF NYS 299
FREER HOUSE
BUILT 1720 BY HUGO FREER,
ONE OF TWELVE ORIGINAL
PATENTEES OF NEW PALTZ.
THE LOW HOUSE AFTER 1732.
Location: HUGUENOT ST., IN NEW PALTZ
HASBROUCK HOUSE
BUILT IN 1712, BY ABRAHAM, THE
PATENTEE, ONCE SOLDIER IN
ENGLISH ARMY, FRIEND OF
GOV. ANDROS. KITCHEN SCENE
OF COCK FIGHTS.
Location: HUGUENOT ST., IN NEW PALTZ
JEAN HASBROUCK
HOUSE BUILT IN 1712, BY
THE PATENTEE; NOW HOME OF
THE HUGUENOT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, SINCE 1899.
Location: HUGUENOT & N. FRONT STS., IN NEW PALTZ
NEW PALTZ
FOUNDED 1678. SIX HOUSES
BUILT BEFORE 1720 ARE ON
HUGUENOT STREET, ON THE
WALKILL RIVER, HOMES OF
REFUGEES OF FRANCE.
Location: SW CORNER N. CHESTNUT AND MULBERRY STS., IN NEW PALTZ
NEW PALTZ
FOUNDED 1678. SIX HOUSES
BUILT BEFORE 1720 ARE ON
HUGUENOT STREET, ON THE
WALKILL RIVER, HOMES OF
REFUGEES OF FRANCE.
Location: NYS 208, S. OF NEW PALTZ
NEW PALTZ
FOUNDED 1678. SIX HOUSES
BUILT BY HUGUENOT REFUGEES
FROM FRANCE, ORIGINAL
PATENTEES, BEFORE 1720,
ARE ON WALKILL RIVER
Location: NE CORNER MAIN & N. FRONT STS., IN NEW PALTZ
SITE OF
THE "OWL" CHURCH
CONFERENTIA CHURCH PARTY
ORGANIZED 1767, TO MAINTAIN
CONTACT WITH CLASSIS OF
NORTH AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND,
JOINED PALTZ CHURCH, 1783
Location: CO. RD. W. OF NEW PALTZ, 1 MI. S. OF NYS 299
SITE OF
WALLOON CHURCH
BUILT OF LOGS, FIRST
CHURCH-SCHOOL, 1683,
FIRST CHURCH OF STONE 1717.
CALLED "OLD FRENCH CHURCH",
PRECURSOR REFORMED CHURCH.
Location: HUGUENOT ST., W. OF N. FRONT ST., IN NEW PALTZ
STONE CHURCH - 1773
FIRST STONE CHURCH, 1717.
SERVICES IN FRENCH TO 1753,
DUTCH LANGUAGE TO 1800.
CHURCH CORNER STONE SEEN
AT SOUTH WALL OF PORTICO.
Location: HUGUENOT ST., NEAR BROADHEAD AVE., NEW PALTZ

County: ULSTER
Town: PLATTENKILL, TOWN OF

ULSTER COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683,
RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM
THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND
OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.
Location: NYS 32, S. OF PLATTEKILL, AT ULSTER-ORANGE CO. LINE

County: ULSTER
Town: ROCHESTER, TOWN OF

ALTON BROOKS PARKER
MAY 14, 1852 - MAY 10, 1926
PRINCIPAL OF THIS SCHOOL, 1870-71
CHIEF JUDGE OF THE NEW YORK
STATE COURT OF APPEALS, 1897-1904
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF U.S.;
1904
Location: US 209, N. OF ACCORD
COLONIAL TAVERN
SILES BOUCK, SCOUT TAKEN
IN INDIAN AND TORY RAID
IN 1779, TO FORT NIAGARA, CAME
BACK HERE, WHILE NEIGHBORS
WERE HOLDING A MEETING
Location: US 209, S. OF ACCORD
ROCHESTER CHURCH
REV. NUCELLA PREACHED, 1695
LOG CHURCH BUILT, 1700
2 STONE CHURCHES, 1743, 1860
2 OTHER CHURCHES BURNED
PRESENT 6TH ON SAME SPOT
Location: US 209, S. OF ACCORD
SITE OF
COLONIAL FORT
HERE ON DEYO'S HILL
STOOD A FORT PROTECTING
EARLY SETTLERS FROM INDIANS
Location: US 209 N. OF KERHONKSON
SITE OF
TRAINING FIELD
COLONIAL MILITIA, IN THE
FRENCH AND INDIAN AND
REVOLUTIONARY WARS, MET
FOR TRAINING IN A FIELD
AT THIS PLACE
Location: US 209 N. OF ACCORD
SITE OF
INDIAN RAID
IN COLONIAL CHURCH WHICH
STOOD HERE, 1778, SETTLERS
FORTIFIED THEMSELVES, AND
SUCCESSFULLY FOUGHT OFF
ATTACK OF INDIAN RAIDERS.
Location: US 209 AT PINE BUSH
TOM QUICK FARM
HOME OF TOM QUICK, BOUGHT
FROM HARMON HEKUN, INDIAN,
1676; QUICK WAS KILLED BY
INDIANS AND HIS SON SLEW
MANY RED MEN IN REVENGE.
Location: US 209, S. OF ACCORD

County: ULSTER
Town: ROSENDALE, TOWN OF

CREEKLOCKS
ORIGINALLY WAGENDALL.
RENAMED 1825 WHEN DELAWARE
AND HUDSON CANAL WAS BUILT.
CANAL ENTERED CREEK HERE.
Location: CREEKLOCKS RD., CREEKLOCKS
D. & H. CANAL
STARTED 1825, OPENED 1828.
IMPORTANT WATERWAY IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW YORK
STATE, CONNECTING DELAWARE
AND HUDSON RIVERS.
Location: NYS 213 W. OF ROSENDALE
FORDING PLACE
USED BY GEN. CLINTON'S
FORCES, ON WAY FROM
NEWBURGH TO DEFEND KINGSTON,
FROM BRITISH RAIDERS IN
OCTOBER, 1777.
Location: NYS 32 AT ROSENDALE
FREER HOUSE
BUILT 1765 BY JACOB FREER,
GRANDSON OF HUGO FREER,
NEW PALTZ PATENTEE; FIRST
SETTLED BY FAMILY IN 1730
CALLED "HALF MOON".
Location: NYS 32 S. OF TILLSON
GRIST MILL
OPERATED IN 1809 BY JACOB
LOW SNYDER, EARLY SETTLER;
IN 1825 BY JUDGE LUCAS
ELMENDORF. CEMENT GROUND
HERE FOR D. & H. CANAL.
Location: NYS 213 W. OF ROSENDALE
HOME OF
ABRAHAM VAN WAGENEN
AN ORIGINAL SETTLER,
BUILT, 1725-1730.
Location: CREEKLOCKS RD., CREEKLOCKS
JOPPENBERGH
JACOB'S MOUNT, NAMED
FOR COL. JACOBUS RUTSEN,
FIRST SETTLER, IN 1680
Location: NYS 213 W. OF ROSENDALE
LEFEVRE HOUSE
BUILT 1780; SINCE 1810
HOME OF LEFEVRE FAMILY,
DESCENDANTS OF SIMON,
NEW PALTZ PATENTEE,
CALLED BLOEMENDAL.
Location: NYS 32, S. OF BLOOMINGTON
MEETING HOUSE
FRIENDS CHURCH, BUILT
IN 1800. PHEBE TILLSON
WAS THE FIRST RECOMMENDED
MINISTER.
Location: GRIST MILL RD., TILLSON
NEWKIRK TAVERN
BUILT IN 1781 BY
GERRIT NEWKIRK.
A FAMOUS HOSTERLRY.
Location: NYS 32 AT MAPLE HILL
PERRINE'S BRIDGE
ERECTED IN 1850. ONE OF
THE FEW OLD COVERED
BRIDGES STILL STANDING
IN NEW YORK STATE.
Location: NYS 32 S. OF TILLSON
PETRUS VAN WAGENEN
ONE OF ORIGINAL SETTLERS
OF WAGENDAAL, OCCUPIED BY
VAN WAGENEN FAMILIES, BUILT
THIS HOUSE IN 1726-1730.
Location: SW CORNER CREEKLOCKS RD. & MAIN ST., BLOOMINGTON
REFORMED PROTESTANT
DUTCH CHURCH
FIRST ORGANIZED 1797,
BURNED 1846, REBUILT ON
PRESENT LOCATION, 1847.
Location: CHURCH ST., W. OF MAIN ST., BLOOMINGTON
ROSENDALE CEMENT
DISCOVERED HERE IN 1826.
FIRST COMMERCIAL MILL
OPERATED HERE 1826 BY
WATSON E. LAWRENCE,
CALLED LAWRENCEVILLE.
Location: NYS 213 W. OF ROSENDALE
RUTSEN HOUSE
FIRST HOUSE BUILT IN TOWN
BY JACOBUS RUTSEN IN 1680.
JACOBUS RUTSEN HARDENBERGH
BORN HERE - ENTERTAINED
GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Location: NYS 32 AT ROSENDALE
SITE OF
DE WITT MILL
ERECTED 1750 BY COL.
CHRALES DE WITT. FLOUR
GROUND HERE FOR AMERICAN
ARMY IN THE REVOLUTION.
Location: NYS 32 AT BLOOMINGTON
SITE OF
DE WITT HOUSE
BUILT 1736; DESTROYED 1930;
HOME OF COL. CHARLES DE WITT,
MEMBER PROVINCIAL CONGRESS
CALLED CROCODILE INN,
ABOUT 1800.
Location: NYS 32 AT BLOOMINGTON
SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH
ERECTED HERE IN 1797,
REFORMED CHURCH OF
BLOEMENDAL BURNED 1846,
REBUILT 1847, AT NEW
LOCATION AT BLOOMINGTON
Location: E. OF NYS 32 IN MAPLE HILL
SNYDER HOME
COMMUNITY FIRST SETTLED
1755 BY JACOB SNYDER,
HOUSE ERECTED 1788; HOME
OF CHRISTOPHER SNYDER,
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER.
Location: CO. RD. AT COTTEKILL
TAWAERI TAQUI
NORTHWEST CORNER OF
PATENT GRANTED TO THE
HUGUENOT SETTLERS OF
NEW PALTZ, IN 1677, IS
ONE HALF MILE WEST.
Location: SPRINGTOWN RD., TILLSON
TILLSON HOME
FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1778.
HOME OF JOB TILLSON, SCOUT
IN REVOLUTIONARY ARMY AT
12 YEARS. COMMUNITY NAMED
IN HONOR OF FAMILY.
Location: GRIST MILL RD., IN TILLSON
WAGENDALL
ON THIS FARM IS HOME OF
JACOB AARTSEN VAN WAGENEN,
BUILT 1669, FIRST SETTLER,
AND HOME OF JOHANNES
VAN WAGENEN, BUILT 1775.
Location: CREEKLOCKS RD., CREEKLOCKS
WHITE'S MILL
BUILT 1830 BY HUGH WHITE,
SUPPLIED CEMENT FOR CROTON
RESERVOIR, WHITEPORT NAMED
TO HONOR HUGH WHITE.
Location: CO. RD. AT WHITEPORT

County: ULSTER
Town: SAUGERTIES, TOWN OF

BARCLAY HEIGHTS
NAMED FOR HENRY BARCLAY
1778-1851, EARLY SETTLER
WHO FOUNDED TRINITY CHURCH,
UTILIZED LOCAL WATER POWER
AND GREATLY PROMOTED INDUSTRY.
Location: US 9W, S. OF BARCLAY ST., IN SAUGERTIES
BRICK CHURCH
BUILT 1827. USED FOR WORSHIP
UNTIL 1852. THEN SOLD FOR
USE AS AN ACADEMY. LATER
KNOWN AND USED AS
BURHANS BLACKSMITH SHOP
Location: LIVINGSTON ST., W. OF NYS 32, SAUGERTIES
BRINK HOMESTEAD
OWNED CONTINUOUSLY BY FAMILY
OF CORNELIUS LAMBERTSEN BRINK,
PURCHASER, 1688, OF SECOND
LAND GRANT IN TOWN. PART
OF ORIGINAL HOUSE REMAINS.
Location: CO. RD., 1-1/2 MIS. S. OF MT. MARION
FLATBUSH
REFORMED CHURCH
OF SAUGERTIES, N. Y.
ORGANIZED JUNE 9, 1807.
BUILDING ERECTED 1808.
Location: NYS 32, 1-1/2 MIS. S. OF GLASCO
GLASCO TURNPIKE
ROAD FROM EARLY GLASS WORKS
ON THE UPPER SAWKILL, TO
SHIPPING POINT ON HUDSON
ABOVE RONDOUT. NAMED FOR
SIGN ON COMPANY'S WAREHOUSE.
Location: NYS 212, E. OF WOODSTOCK
INDIAN CAVE
HOME OF "NACHTE JAN", LAST
INDIAN OF REGION. FRIEND
OF CORNELIUS PERSEN, OFTEN
WARNED HIM OF ATTACKS
BY INDIANS AND TORIES.
Location: NYS 32, SO. OF KATSBAAN
KATSBAAN CHURCH
ERECTED 1732 KNOWN AS
"DE STEENEKERK OP DE KATS
BAAN." REBUILT 1867. IN
NORTH WALL ARE STONES WITH
NAMES OF BUILDERS.
Location: CO. RD., 8 MIS. N. OF KATSBAAN
KIERSTED HOUSE
OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY DAYS.
HOME OF DR. CHRISTOPHER KIERSTED,
FIRST PHYSICIAN IN TOWN,
RENDERED SERVICE DURING
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Location: MAIN ST., E. OF WASHINGTON AVE., SAUGERTIES
KING'S ROAD
OLDEST HIGHWAY IN TOWN, 1703.
FIRST KNOWN AS "FOOTPATH" TO
ALBANY, THEN AS THE
"QUEEN'S HIGHWAY", LATER AS
THE OLD KING'S ROAD."
Location: NYS 32, 100 YDS. N. OF THRUWAY ENTRANCE NO. 20
LUTHERAN CHURCH
ORGANIZED IN 1710 BY THE
PALATINES. FIRST PASTOR
REV. JOSHUA KOCHERTHAL.
FIRST CHURCH NEAR SITE
OF PRESENT CHURCH
Location: US 9W AT WEST CAMP
MYER HOMESTEAD
LAND DEEDED 1724 TO
CHRISTIAN MYER, PROMINENT
PALATINE SETTLER; EIGHTEEN
DESCENDANTS SERVED IN
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Location: CO. RD., 1-1/2 MIS. S. OF NYS 32
MYNDERSE HOUSE
JOHN PERSON, PATENTEE 1712,
BUILT GRIST MILL AND EST'D
FERRY ACROSS ESOPUS CREEK.
DEEDED TO DAUGHTER OF MYNDERT
MYNDERSE. ADDITION BUILT 1743
Location: MYNDERSE ST., S. OF US 9W, IN SAUGERTIES
PERSEN STORE SITE
25 YARDS EAST STOOD STORE
OF CORNELIUS PERSEN; ALSO
FUR TRADE HEADQUARTERS OF
JOHN JACOB ASTOR; IN 1867
USED AS PLACE OF WORSHIP
Location: NYS 32, SO. OF KATSBAAN
POST TAVERN SITE
USED AS PATRIOTS MEETING
PLACE DURING REVOLUTION.
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
SIGNED HERE. RELIGIOUS
SERVICES HELD HERE 1815-29.
Location: MAIN ST., W. OF PARTITION ST., SAUGERTIES
SAWYER'S MILL
STOOD ON THIS SITE 1663.
SAUGERTIES DERIVED ITS
NAME FROM THE DUTCH
WORD "DE ZAAGERTJES".
Location: US 9W N. OF SAUGERTIES AT BRIDGE
SCHOONMAKER HOMESTEAD
ELDER KATSBAAN CHURCH, MEMBER
OF GENERAL COMMITTEE OF ARTICLES
OF ASSOCIATION. OCCUPIED CON-
TINUOUSLY BY DESCENDANTS.
PRE-REVOLUTIONARY HOUSE.
Location: MAIN ST., W. OF MYNDERSE ST. IN SAUGERTIES
SETTLERS CAPTURED
JUNE 10, 1780, NEAR THIS
SPOT, PETER SHORT AND PETER
MILLER WERE CAPTURED BY
TORIES DISGUISED AS INDIANS
AND TAKEN TO CANADA
Location: NYS 212, E. OF WOODSTOCK
TAVERN SITE
KEPT BY CHRISTIAN FIERO.
PUBLIC MEETING PLACE
DURING REVOLUTION.
FIRST TOWN MEETING HELD
HERE APRIL 16, 1811
Location: NO. OF NYS 32, AT KATSBAAN
TAVERN SITE
NEAR HERE STOOD NOTED INN
KEPT BY "OOM HANS" MYER,
FREQUENTED BY AARON BURR.
MYER DROVE AMBULANCE WAGON
FROM SARATOGA TO ALBANY
Location: CO. RD., 5 MIS. S. OF NYS 32
ULSTER COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683,
RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM
THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND
OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.
Location: US 9W AT ULSTER-GREENE CO. LINE
WEST CAMP VILLAGE
SETTLED 1710 BY PALATINES
FROM THE RHINELAND FOR
PRODUCTION OF NAVAL STORES.
BUILT CHURCH AND SCHOOL
DURING FIRST WINTER.
Location: US 9W AT WEST CAMP

County: ULSTER
Town: SHANDAKEN, TOWN OF

ULSTER COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683
RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM
THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND
OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.

County: ULSTER
Town: SHAWANGUNK, TOWN OF

SITE OF NEW FORT
23 INDIANS KILLED, 13
CAPTURED. 23 CAPTIVE
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
RELEASED. 3 SOLDIERS
KILLED, SEPT. 5, 1663
Location: OFF CO. RD., 1 MI. S. OLD SHAWANGUNK CHURCH

County: ULSTER
Town: WAWARSING, TOWN OF

ABRAM BEVIER
WHOSE HOUSE STOOD HERE, HAD
A SMALL CANNON, WHICH THE
INDIANS FEARED, AND WHICH
MADE HIS HOME OF FORT FOR
SETTLERS IN RAID OF 1781.
Location: US 209 AT NAPANOCH
BEVIER HOUSE
AUG. 12, 1781, INDIANS
RAIDING RONDOUT VALLEY
FIRED HOUSE OF CORNELIUS
BEVIER, BUT FLAMES WERE PUT
OUT BY NEGRO WOMAN SLAVE.
Location: US 209 AT WAWARSING
CORNELIUS DEPUY
HOUSE
ATTACKED BY INDIANS, AUG. 12,
1781. GARRET VAN WAGENEN, 16,
SHOT THE LEADER, AND
SCARED THE OTHERS AWAY.
Location: US 209, N. OF WAWARSING
HOME OF
JOHANNES G. HARDENBERGH
ERECTED 1762. NEW YORK
RECORDS DEPOSITED HERE
OCT. 12, 1777 BEFORE KINGSTON
WAS BURNED BY THE BRITISH
Location: US 209, 1 MI. S. OF KERHONKSON
OLD MINE ROAD
ESOPUS - MINISINK TRAIL
INDIAN TRAIL CONNECTING
DELAWARE VALLEY WITH HUDSON
RIVER. USED BEFORE AND
DURING REVOLUTION
Location: US 209, N. OF SPRING GLEN
SITE OF
FIRST MILL
HERE, ON VERNOOY KILL, WAS
FIRST MILL, BROUGHT FROM
HOLLAND AND SET UP EARLY
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
BY CORNELIUS VERNOOY.
Location: US 209 AT WAWARSING
ULSTER COUNTY
ONE OF ORIGINAL COUNTIES
OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683,
RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM
THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND
OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.
Location: US 209, S. OF SPRING GLEN
WAWARSING FORT
[ARROW]
ON THE KNOLL 300 FT EAST
STOOD A STONE FORT WHICH
PROTECTED THE SETTLERS
DURING THE INDIAN RAID
OF AUG. 12, 1781.
Location: US 209 AT WAWARSING
[ARROW]
SITE OF
LONG HOUSE
AT FOOT OF HIGH BLUFF STOOD
INDIAN COUNCIL HOUSE DESTROYED
BY CAPT. KREGIER, AUGUST 31, 1663
Location: US 209 AT WAWARSING

County: ULSTER
Town: WOODSTOCK, TOWN OF

"DOWN RENT" WAR
REBELLION AGAINST "THREE
LIFE" LEASES CAUSED RIOTS
HERE BY FARMERS DISGUISED
AS INDIANS, 1845, AND LED TO
ABOLISHMENT OF SYSTEM.
Location: S. OF NYS 212, AT LAKE HILL
BAEHR'S STORE
CHRISTIAN BAEHR, A GERMAN
PEDDLER, FOUNDED STORE ON
SAWKILL, IN 1839. EARLY IN
TANBARK INDUSTRY, IT GAVE NAME
TO HAMLET BEARSVILLE.
Location: NYS 212, AT BEARSVILLE
ELIAS HASBROUCH
CAPTAIN IN AMERICAN ARMY,
1775-1783; AT QUEBEC WITH
GEN. MONTGOMERY; BURIED HERE.
HIS HOUSE IN KINGSTON WAS
BURNED BY BRITISH, 1777.
Location: N. OF NYS 212 AT LAKE HILL
GLASCO TURNPIKE
ROAD FROM EARLY GLASS WORKS
ON THE UPPER SAWKILL, TO
SHIPPING POINT ON HUDSON,
ABOVE RONDOUT. NAMED FOR
SIGN ON COMPANY'S WAREHOUSE.
Location: CO. RD., NE OF WOODSTOCK
GLASCO TURNPIKE
ROAD FROM EARLY GLASS WORKS
ON THE UPPER SAWKILL TO
SHIPPING POINT ON HUDSON,
ABOVE RONDOUT. NAMED FOR
SIGN ON COMPANY'S WAREHOUSE.
Location: CO. RD., N OF WOODSTOCK
GLASS FACTORY
BRISTOL (SHADY) 1825-1856.
ONE OF EARLY INDUSTRIES IN
CATSKILLS; MADE WINDOW GLASS
AND DOMES FOR WAX FLOWERS,
STILL FOUND IN WOODSTOCK.
Location: 1/2 MI. N. OF SHADY
OLD WOODSTOCK MILL
GRIST MILL, 1788-1925
ALSO RUN AS CARDING MILL,
1836 AND LATER, BY
JOSHUA NASH.
Location: SE CORNER NYS 212 AND NYS 375
OLD ZENA MILL
OPERATED PRIOR TO 1750 BY
MAJOR JOHANNES HARDENBERGH.
GRANTED TO EPHRAIM VAN KEUREN,
LATER RUN BY CAPT. WILLIAM
SWART AND WILHEMUS HOWE.
Location: CO. RD., N. OF ZENA
SITE OF
NEWKIRK HOUSE
ONE OF THE EARLIEST HOUSES
IN WOODSTOCK, OCCUPIED 1777
BY GARRET NEWKIRK, LATER
BY JACOBUS ELTINGE.
Location: NYS 212, AT VILLAGE CENTER IN WOODSTOCK
TANNERY BROOK
TANNERS, USING HEMLOCK BARK,
RAN MILLS HERE, 1830-1870.
HIDES WERE BROUGHT IN SHIPS
UP THE HUDSON TO KINGSTON.
Location: NYS 212, W. OF WOODSTOCK
ZENA - WAGHKONK
ZENZ WAS CALLED WAGHKONK OR
AWAGHKONK, INDIAN FOR LOW
MEADOWS OR MARSH; DUTCH
TRANSLATED IT VAN DAAL, OR
VALLEY; ENGLISH VANDALE
Location: CO. RD. AT ZENA
[ARROW]
BLUESTONE QUARRY
THE CALIFORNIA QUARRY, ON
OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN, NORTH,
WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST OF
THESE INDUSTRIES WHICH
FLOURISHED, 1839-1900.
Location: CO. RD., NE OF WOODSTOCK

County: WARREN
Town: BOLTON, TOWN OF

DIAMOND ISLAND
IN CENTER OF LAKE, MILITARY
DEPOT OF BURGOYNE'S ARMY,
ATTACKED, SEPT. 1777, BY
AMERICANS UNDER COL. BROWN;
LATER ABANDONED BY ENEMY
Location: ON DIAMOND ISLAND IN L. GEORGE

County: WARREN
Town: GLENS FALLS, CITY OF

HALF WAY BROOK
MIDWAY BETWEEN FORT EDWARD
AND FORT GEORGE. ON THIS
SITE ABOUT 1755 STOOD
A BLOCKHOUSE ENCLOSED
BY A STOCKADE.
Location: ON US 9 AT NORTHERN END OF CITY

County: WARREN
Town: HAGUE, TOWN OF

THROUGH THIS PASS TO
TROUT BROOK WAS
AN INDIAN TRAIL
USED BY ROBERT ROGERS AFTER
BATTLE ON SNOWSHOES, 1758,
ON RETREAT TO FT. WILLIAM HENRY
Location: ON NYS 8 & NYS 9N ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF HAGUE

County: WARREN
Town: LAKE GEORGE, TOWN OF

FORT WM. HENRY
1755 BUILT BY SIR WM. JOHNSON
1757 AFTER A GALLANT DEFENSE
COL. MONROE IN COMMAND
SURRENDERED TO THE FRENCH
UNDER GEN. MONTCALM
Location: ON LAKE FRONT, L. GEORGE VLGE.
MONTCALM'S CAMP
1757
ON THESE GROUNDS MONTCALM'S
ARMY CAMPED DURING THE
SIEGE OF FORT WM. HENRY
AUGUST 6-9, 1757
Location: ON US 9 AT LAKE GEORGE VLGE.
THE HOSPITAL
AT BATTLE OF LAKE GEORGE
MANY WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND
SOME WITH SMALLPOX WERE
CRUELLY MURDERED BY INDIANS
OF MONTCALM'S ARMY
Location: ON STATE RESERVATION AT LAKE GEORGE VILLAGE

County: WARREN
Town: QUEENSBURY, TOWN OF

FIVE MILE RUN
IN FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
THIS RUN WAS AVOIDED
BECAUSE OF FEAR OF ATTACK
BY HIDDEN INDIANS. NAME
CHANGED TO MEADOW RUN 1808.
Location: ON US 9 ABOUT 2-1/2 MILES NORTH OF GLENS FALLS
MILITARY ROAD
BETWEEN FORT EDWARD
AND LAKE GEORGE
BUILT BY SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
DURING THE SUMMER OF 1755
Location: ON US 9 ABOUT 4-1/2 MILES NORTH OF GLENS FALLS
ONEIDA
NAMED FOR TOM HAMMOND, A
HALF BREED ONEIDA INDIAN
A THRIVING SETTLEMENT DOING
A LARGE LUMBERING BUSINESS
AT CLOSE OF REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 9L ABOUT 3-1/2 MILES NORTH OF GLENS FALLS

County: WARREN
Town: THURMAN, TOWN OF

JAMES CAMERON
PIONEER WOODSMAN FARMER,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
SETTLED IN THIS VALLEY
IN 1773. BURIED 100
FEET WEST OF THIS MARKER.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF WARRENSBURG

County: WASHINGTON
Town: ARGYLE, TOWN OF

FIRST CHURCH
AND MANSE OF ARGYLE UNITED
PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION
BUILT IN 1792 NEAR GROUP
OF TREES A SHORT DISTANCE
EAST OF THIS SPOT.
Location: ON NYS 40 ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF ARGYLE
KILMER MILL
BUILT SHORT DISTANCE WEST
OF HERE BEFORE REVOLUTION.
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN ARGYLE
VILLAGE AND FIRST GRIST
MILL WITHIN FORTY MILES.
Location: ON NYS 197 AT ARGYLE
SITE OF
ALLEN HOUSE
WHERE NINE PEOPLE WERE KILLED
BY LE LOUP'S INDIANS
JULY 1777
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1-1/2 MILES EAST OF SOUTH ARGYLE
THE STREET
ROAD LAID OUT IN 1764 BY
GRANTEES OF ARGYLE PATENT.
EXTENDED EAST SEVEN MILES
FROM HUDSON RIVER BORDERED
BY TOWN LOTS OF SETTLERS
Location: ON NYS 40 ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF ARGYLE

County: WASHINGTON
Town: CAMBRIDGE, TOWN OF

CONTINENTAL ROAD
(DI-ON-ON-DA-WA-HA TRAIL)
COL. BAUM'S ROUTE FROM
FT. MILLER TO BENNINGTON
AUGUST 14, 1777
Location: ON SO. UNION ST., CAMBRIDGE
GREAT NORTHERN
WAR TRAIL
1628-1764
OVER WHICH INDIANS LED
NEW ENGLAND CAPTIVES TO
CANADA DURING INDIAN WARS
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 22 & NYS 313 AT CAMBRIDGE
SITE OF
CAMBRIDGE WASHINGTON
ACADEMY
INCORPORATED BY REGENTS, 1815
MERGED IN UNION SCHOOL, 1873
Location: ON ACADEMY ST. IN CAMBRIDGE
SITE OF
KING'S M.E. CHURCH
ERECTED 1823, NAMED FOR
FENNER KING, LEADER AND
PROMOTER. DESTROYED 1897.
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF CENTER CAMBRIDGE
SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH
IN CAMBRIDGE PATENT
BUILDING STARTED 1775
INTERRUPTED BY REVOLUTION
COMPLETED 1783
Location: ON TOWN RD. AT SOUTH END OF VILLAGE OF CAMBRIDGE
SITE OF
BUSKIRK'S BRIDGE
BUILT 1801 BY
MARTIN VAN BUSKIRK
TO REPLACE USE OF FORD
Location: AT APPROACH TO COVERED BRIDGE OVER HOOSIC R. NEAR BUSKIRK

County: WASHINGTON
Town: EASTON, TOWN OF

FRIEND'S LOG MEETING HOUSE
SURROUNDED BY BURGOYNE'S
INDIAN ALLIES IN 1777 BUT
FINDING FRIENDS UNARMED
STACKED ARMS AND ATTENDED
MEETING PEACEABLY.
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 3/4 MILE EAST OF EASTON
[ARROW]
POSITION OF
THE CONTINENTAL TROOPS
UNDER GENERAL FELLOWS
TO PREVENT BURGOYNE
CROSSING THE HUDSON
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MILE SO. OF CLARKS MILLS

County: WASHINGTON
Town: FORT ANN, TOWN OF

BLOCK HOUSE
ON ISLAND
Location: ON CO. RD. AT KANES FALLS
BLOCK HOUSE
BUILT DURING REVOLUTIONARY
WAR PROBABLY TO PROTECT
SAWMILL AND WATER
PIPES TO FORT ANN
Location: ON ISLAND AT KANES FALLS
FORT ANN
"GATEWAY TO NORTH"
HERE STOOD FIVE FORTS
1690-1777
ON ROUTE BETWEEN LAKE
CHAMPLAIN & HUDSON RIVER
Location: ON US 4 AT FORT ANN
HALF-WAY CREEK
USED IN FRENCH AND INDIAN
& REVOLUTIONARY WARS
FOR TRANSPORT OF SUPPLIES
Location: ON US 4 AT FORT ANN
HOME OF COL. GEORGE WRAY
ORIGINAL MANOR HOUSE BUILT
1778, CONTAINS SLAVE PENS.
GRAVE OF COL. WRAY IN THE
ORCHARD.
Location: ON TN. RD. 2 MI. WEST OF FT. ANN
HOME OF COL. GEORGE WRAY
TWO MILES WEST, BUILT
ABOUT 1778, CONTAINS
SLAVE PENS.
Location: ON US 4 AT FORT ANN
OLD POWDER HOUSE
USED DURING FRENCH AND
INDIAN WARS AND
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Location: ON CO. RD. TO W. FORT ANN IN FORT ANN VILLAGE
OLD WELL
USED IN FORT SITE. BUILT
BEFORE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
BY QUEEN ANNE OF ENGLAND
Location: ON CHARLES ST. AT FORT ANN
OLDEST HOUSE
BUILT BEFORE 1800, OWNED
SUCCESSIVELY BY MOORE
PIKE AND SHIPMAN FAMILIES
Location: ON US 4 AT FORT ANN
THADDEUS DEWEY PLACE
BUILT IN 1788 BY THADDEUS
DEWEY, OWNED BY DEWEY,
WHITE, COLLINS AND PARRISH
FAMILIES. ONCE AN OLD
TAVERN.
Location: ON TN. RD. AT DEWEY BRIDGE

County: WASHINGTON
Town: FORT EDWARD, TOWN OF

"THE ISLAND"
BARRACKS HOSPITAL,
BRICK-KILN
1755
Location: ON OLD FORT ST. IN FT. EDWARD
1/4 MILE [ARROW]
DUER HOUSE
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS
AUG. 14--SEPT. 10, 1777
Location: ON US 4 AT FORT MILLER
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TO THE SITE OF
FORT EDWARD, BUILT 1755
FORT NICHOLSON 1709
FORT LYDIUS 1731
FORT LYMAN 1755
Location: ON US 4 AT S. END OF FT. EDWARD
BAGLEY'S BRIDGE,
(PONTOON TYPE)
BLOCKHOUSES GUARDED
APPROACHES
BUILT DURING
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Location: ON US 4 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF FORT EDWARD
BLOCKHOUSE
AN OUTPOST OF THE FORT
BUILT DURING
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Location: ON BRIDGE ST., FORT EDWARD
FORT EDWARD
1755
GREAT CARRYING PLACE
FORT NICHOLSON 1709
FORT LYDIUS 1731
FORT LYMAN 1755
Location: ON US 4 AT N. END OF FT. EDWARD
GENERAL SCHUYLER'S
ENTRENCHMENTS
HEADQUARTERS OF AMERICAN ARMY
AFTER THE EVACUATION OF
FORT EDWARD JULY 1777
Location: ON US 4 ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF FORT EDWARD
JANE MC CREA
HOUSE
1777
Location: ON B'WAY IN FT. EDWARD
NEAR HERE STOOD
THE RED HOUSE,
MENTIONED IN MADAME
RIEDESEL'S MEMOIRS
BUILT ABOUT 1765
Location: ON BANK OF OLD CANAL OFF B'WAY BETWEEN STATE & ARGYLE STS., FT. EDWD.
NEAR HERE WAS
NORTHEAST BASTION,
PART OF OUTWORKS
FORT EDWARD
1755
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF B'WAY & MOON STS., FT. EDWARD
OLD MILITARY ROAD
FOLLOWED THE GENERAL
DIRECTION OF BURGOYNE
AVENUE TO MOSS STREET
IN KINGSBURY
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF CASE ST. & BURGOYNE AVE., FT. EDWARD
ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE
OF THE RIVER
FORT MILLER
BUILT DURING
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Location: ON US 4 AT FORT MILLER
ON THE WEST BANK
WAS THE HOME OF
COLONEL JOHN MC CREA
PATRIOT
BROTHER OF JANE MC CREA
Location: ON US 4 ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF FORT EDWARD
REMAINS OF
OLD MOAT
PART OF OUTWORKS
FORT EDWARD
1755
Location: ON OLD FORT ST. FT. EDWARD
REVOLUTIONARY
BLOCKHOUSE
ATTACKED
JULY 27, 1777
Location: ON CASE ST., FT. EDWARD
SITE OF HOME
JUDGE WILLIAM DUER
STATESMAN AND PATRIOT
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 3/4 MILE EAST OF FORT MILLER
STATE ST. BURYING GROUND
ORIGINAL BURIAL PLACE OF
DUNCAN CAMPBELL
SECOND BURIAL PLACE OF
JANE MC CREA
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF STATE & NOTRE DAME STS., FT. EDWARD
THE GRAVE OF
DUNCAN CAMPBELL
& JANE MC CREA
ARE JUST WITHIN AND
TO THE LEFT
OF THIS GATEWAY
Location: ON US 4 BETWEEN FORT EDWARD & HUDSON FALLS
TO THE SITE OF
OLD FT. EDWARD
BUILT 1755
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF OLD FORT & MONTGOMERY STS., FT. EDWARD
TO THE SOUTH
PUTNAM'S RANGERS AND PROVINCIAL
TROOPS DEFEATED FRENCH AND
INDIANS AFTER THEY HAD KILLED
TWELVE MEN
JULY 23, 1757
Location: ON NOTRE DAME ST. IN FT. EDWARD
[ARROW]
ORIGINAL BURIAL PLACE OF
JANE MC CREA
JULY 28, 1777
Location: ON US 4 ABOUT 2-1/2 MILES SOUTH OF FORT EDWARD

County: WASHINGTON
Town: GRANVILLE, TOWN OF

ERECTED 1784
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
IN THE
TOWN OF GRANVILLE
Location: ON OLD RTE. NYS 22 IN TRUTHVILLE
ERECTED 1789
THE FIRST
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
IN THE
TOWN OF GRANVILLE
Location: ON NYS 149 AT S. GRANVILLE
FIRST CHURCH
IN THE TOWN OF GRANVILLE
ERECTED IN 1782 BY THE
UNION RELIGIOUS SOCIETY
Location: ON NYS 22 IN MIDDLE GRANVILLE
FRIENDS
MEETING HOUSE
ERECTED 1806
BESIDE CHURCH SITE OF LOG
SCHOOL HOUSE OF FRIENDS
LATER A DISTRICT SCHOOL
Location: ON NYS 22 IN GRANVILLE

County: WASHINGTON
Town: GREENWICH, TOWN OF

FROM THIS PLACE
BURGOYNE'S
GERMAN TROOPS
MARCHED TO THE
BATTLE OF BENNINGTON
Location: ON CO. RD. AT CLARKS MILLS
MC NEAL'S FERRY
OPERATED DURING
REVOLUTIONARY DAYS
Location: ON US 4 AT BRIDGE OVER HUDSON R. AT THOMSON
POSITION OF
GENERAL STARK
BEFORE CROSSING THE RIVER
Location: ON CO. RD. BETWEEN CLARKS MILLS & THOMSON
POSITION OF
BURGOYNE'S
BRIDGE OF BOATS
ON WHICH HE CROSSED
THE HUDSON
Location: ON TN. RD. LEADING TO ABANDONED BRIDGE OVER HUDSON R., CLARKS MILLS
SITE OF
CAPTAIN FURNIVAL'S
BATTERY
COMMANDING MARSHALL HOUSE
AND RIVER CROSSING
Location: ON CO. RD. AT CLARKS MILLS
SITE OF
THE BRITISH CAMP
BEFORE CROSSING HUDSON
LATER OCCUPIED BY GENERAL FELLOWS'
CONTINENTALS
Location: ON TN. RD. LEADING TO ABANDONED BRIDGE OVER HUDSON R., CLARKS MILLS

County: WASHINGTON
Town: HARTFORD, TOWN OF

BROWN'S TAVERN
ERECTED 1802 BY
CALEB BROWN
Location: ON NYS 40 AT S. HARTFORD
CLINTON GIFT
GOV. CLINTON GAVE THIS LAND
TO BAPTIST SOCIETY, 1798,
LOG MEETING HOUSE, 1788
STOOD 50 FEET TO THE SOUTH,
CHURCH ERECTED HERE, 1805
Location: ON CO.RD. AT HARTFORD
HAWK'S CORNERS
SAVILLE'S TAVERN BUILT 1800
M. BULL'S BLACKSMITH SHOP
1794, A TOWN POUND 1794
HIGLEY'S SHOE SHOP, 1850
Location: ON NYS 149 ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF HARTFORD
MILL CREEK
COVELL'S MILLS EAST 1810,
HATCH TANNERY 100 FT. SOUTH
1800, SCOTT'S CLOTHING WORKS
AND OTHER MILLS BELOW.
WOOLEN MILL, 1 MILE WEST, 1836
Location: ON NYS 40 AT S. HARTFORD
SITE OF
OLD MILLS
I. NORTON BUILT DAM 1814
DOWN'S CLOTHING WORKS
WOODELL STARCH MILL 1866
DAICY CABINET WORKS 1870
HIGBY TANNERY BELOW 1818
Location: ON NYS 149 AT HARTFORD

County: WASHINGTON
Town: SALEM, TOWN OF

HOME AND LABORATORY
DR. ASA FITCH, JR.
1809-1879
FIRST STATE ENTOMOLOGIST,
1854-71. PIONEER IN STUDY OF
CROP PESTS AND THEIR CONTROL
Location: ON RTE. 29, 2 MILES S.W. OF SALEM

County: WASHINGTON
Town: WHITE CREEK, TOWN OF

A LOG CHURCH
WHICH STOOD HERE
WAS BURNED BY THE BRITISH
BATTLE OF WALLOOMSAC
AUG. 16, 1777
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1-1/2 MILES WEST OF WHITE CREEK
GREAT NORTHERN
WAR TRAIL
C. 1650 - 1700
OVER WHICH INDIANS LED
NEW ENGLAND CAPTIVES TO
CANADA DURING INDIAN WARS
Location: ON WEST SIDE OF S. PARK ST. IN CAMBRIDGE
SITE OF
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
ERECTED BY SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
OF WHITE CREEK. PREPARATIVE
MEETING IN 1783. FINISHED IN
1785. LARGER ONE BUILT 1804.
Location: ON TN. RD. AT WHITE CREEK
SITE OF
SKIRMISH
BETWEEN HESSIAN TROOPS
& CAMBRIDGE SETTLERS
SEVERAL PATRIOTS TAKEN
PRISONERS, AUG. 15, 1777.
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF CAMBRIDGE
SITE OF
BRITISH
ENCAMPMENT
AUGUST 13, 1777
COL. BAUM'S FORCES
CAMPED HERE
Location: ON US 22 ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF CAMBRIDGE
SITE OF
UNION ACADEMY
ESTABLISHED IN 1810
Location: ON CO. RD. AT WHITE CREEK
SITE OF
ASH GROVE CEMETERY
AND
2D M.E. CHURCH
IN U.S. ORGANIZED 1770 BY
IRISH METHODISTS UNDER THOMAS
ASHTON AND PHILIP EMBURY
Location: ON TN. RD. AT ASH GROVE
SITE OF
"JOHN ALLEN'S
HAT SHOP"
BORN 1775 - DIED 1855
Location: ON TN. RD. AT WHITE CREEK
SITE OF HOME
JOHN WOOD
FIELD OFFICERS WERE VOTED FOR
HERE, MAY 11, 1776.
ALSO BIRTHPLACE JOHN
WOOD'S SON, JETHRO WOOD, INVENTOR
FIRST IRON MOULD PLOW (1814)
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF WHITE CREEK

County: WASHINGTON
Town: WHITEHALL, TOWN OF

NEAR THIS SPOT
MARCH 21, 1780, 3 TORIES AND
MANY INDIANS MURDERED A SETTLER
AND HIS WIFE AND CAPTURED LEMMA
BARTHOLOMEW. AFTER HIS RETURN
HE SERVED AS ENSIGN IN REVOLUTION
Location: ON US 4 AT WHITEHALL

County: WAYNE
Town: LYONS, TOWN OF

FIRST SCHOOL
A LOG SCHOOL HOUSE WAS
BUILT ON THIS SITE BEFORE
1808. BRICK STRUCTURE
REPLACING IT WAS USED
AS A CATHOLIC CHURCH
Location: ON BUTTERNUT ST., LYONS
NAMING OF LYONS
ABOUT 1795 NEAR THIS SPOT
THE RIVER VIEW RESEMBLING
THAT OF LYONS, FRANCE, LED
CHARLES WILLIAMSON TO
RENAME "THE FORKS"
SETTLEMENT - LYONS
Location: ON WATER ST., LYONS

County: WAYNE
Town: MARION, TOWN OF

1800
FIRST TAVERN
KEPT IN MARION
WAS LOCATED
ON THIS SITE
Location: ON MAIN ST., MARION
FIRST LOG HOUSE
IN MARION WAS ERECTED
ON THIS SITE
IN 1795
BY HENRY LOVELL
Location: ON NYS 21 IN MARION
MARION
SETTLED IN 1795-6
BY PIONEERS FROM RHODE
ISLAND AND MASSACHUSETTS,
WAS ORGANIZED AS A
TOWN APRIL 15, 1826
Location: ON MAIN ST., MARION
THIS HOUSE
ERECTED IN 1830
WAS A STATION OF THE
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
IN THE DAYS OF SLAVERY
Location: ON NYS 21 ABOUT 1/2 MI. SOUTH OF MARION

County: WAYNE
Town: PALMYRA, TOWN OF

1793-1805
FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE
IN PALMYRA BUILT HERE ON
LAND GIVEN BY GENERAL
JOHN SWIFT
Location: ON CHURCH ST., PALMYRA
EAST PALMYRA CHURCH
FIRST TO BE ORGANIZED
IN STATE, WEST OF PRE-EMPTION
LINE, 1793
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. EAST OF EAST PALMYRA
HERE IN 1790
FIRST LOG HOUSE
IN PALMYRA
BUILT AND OCCUPIED BY
THE PIONEER SETTLER
GENERAL JOHN SWIFT
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 31 & 21 IN PALMYRA
JOSEPH SMITH HOME
WHERE HE LIVED IN 1827
WHEN HE TRANSLATED
PART OF THE BOOK OF MORMON
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MI. SOUTH OF PALMYRA
MARTIN HARRIS
FARM
MORTGAGED FOR $3,000 IN
1829 TO PROVIDE FUNDS
FOR FIRST PUBLICATION
OF BOOK OF MORMON
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MI. N. OF PALMYRA
ROPE WALK
HERE ROPE WAS MANUFACTURED
IN 500 FOOT LENGTHS. IT
WAS USED ON THE ALBANY
SCHENECTADY R. R.
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. EAST OF PALMYRA
SAMPSON HOUSE
BIRTHPLACE OF REAR ADMIRAL
WILLIAM T. SAMPSON
COMMANDER OF FLAGSHIP
IN SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
1840-1902
Location: ON SO. SIDE VIENNA ST., PALMYRA
SAW MILL BROOK
LONG ISLAND COLONY
SETTLED HERE MAY 2, 1792
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1-1/2 MIS. WEST OF E. PALMYRA
SITE OF
ORTHODOX QUAKER
MEETING HOUSE
FIRST ONE ERECTED IN WESTERN
NEW YORK 1800-1830
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. NORTH OF PALMYRA
SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH
IN PALMYRA
1811-1832
LAND GIVEN BY
GENERAL JOHN SWIFT
Location: ON CHURCH ST., PALMYRA
SITE OF
PIONEER HOME
OF GIDEON DURFEE
BUILT 1811
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/4 MI. EAST OF PALMYRA
THIS HOUSE
BUILT BY PLINY SEXTON IN
1827 WAS A STATION OF
THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
IN THE DAYS OF
SLAVERY
Location: ON MAIN ST., PALMYRA
[ARROW]
4 MILES SOUTH
CUMORAH
FAMOUS MORMON HILL
AND
ANGEL MORONI MONUMENT
Location: AT INTERSECTION OF NYS 31 & 21 IN PALMYRA
[ARROW]
1/4 MILE
SACRED GROVE
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1 MI. S. OF PALMYRA

County: WAYNE
Town: SAVANNAH, TOWN OF

INDIAN TOWN
ON HILL TO EAST WAS
ONONTARE, A FORTIFIED
TOWN OF CAYUGA NATION.
IN 1657 THE SITE OF
MISSION OF ST. RENE
Location: ON NYS 414 ABOUT 1 MI. SOUTH OF SAVANNAH

County: WAYNE
Town: WALWORTH, TOWN OF

ON THIS SITE
ISAAC BARNHART BUILT DAM
IN 1813, GRIST MILL IN 1818.
CRAGGS ROLLER MILLS 1862-1930
Location: ON CO. RD. NEAR WALWORTH-MACEDON TOWN LINE
SITE OF
TANNERY
BUILT BY LUTHER FILLMORE
IN 1805
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE NORTH OF WALWORTH
SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH
IN WALWORTH, BUILT PRIOR
TO 1809; IN USE UNTIL 1825
Location: ON NYS 350 ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF WALWORTH
SITE OF
THE FIRST ACADEMY
IN WALWORTH
INCORPORATED 1842
BUILT OF LAKE STONES
AT A COST OF $4000
Location: ON CO. RD. IN WALWORTH
SITE OF
LOG SCHOOL HOUSE
BUILT IN 1804
Location: ON CO. RD. IN WALWORTH
SITE OF
FREEWILL BAPTIST
CHURCH
1834-1875
BUILT AT A COST OF $2000
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. N.W. OF WALWORTH
WALWORTH
KNOWN AS DOUGLAS CORNERS
1801-1825
HERE STEPHEN DOUGLAS OF
CONN. BUILT FIRST HOUSE
Location: ON CO. RD. AT WALWORTH

County: WAYNE
Town: WILLIAMSON, TOWN OF

FIRST ROAD
IN WILLIAMSON BUILT BY
CHARLES WILLIAMSON IN 1794
CALLED THE OLD SODUS ROAD
BETWEEN PALMYRA AND
SODUS BAY
Location: ON US 104 AT E. WILLIAMSON
FIRST WHITE MEN
FROM 1687 FRENCH BATEAUX
MEN STOPPED HERE TO TRADE
WITH INDIANS. FIRST SETTLER
"YANKEE BILL" WATERS, A HUNTER
LIVED HERE 1804
Location: ON NYS 21 AT PULTNEYVILLE
INDIAN TRAIL
THIS ROAD, SECOND IN TOWN
WAS INDIAN TRAIL, LATER
CANANDAIGUA-PULTNEYVILLE
POST ROAD, BUILT OF PLANK,
HERE STOOD TOLL GATE
Location: ON NYS 21 ABOUT 2 MIS. NORTH OF WILLIAMSON
SITE OF
UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD TERMINUS
HOME OF SAMUEL CUYLER USED
AS TERMINUS OF UNDERGROUND
R.R. DURING SLAVERY PERIOD
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 1/4 MILE EAST OF PULTNEYVILLE
SITE OF
FIRST LOG HOUSE
BUILT 1807 BY MAJOR WILLIAM
ROGERS. USED FOR TAVERN,
STORE, AND POST OFFICE.
SETTLEMENT WAS CALLED
ROGERS CORNERS
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 104 & 21 IN EAST WILLIAMSON
SITE OF
UNION CHURCH
ERECTED 1825, OPEN FOR USE
OF ANY DENOMINATION,
DEDICATED TO TOLERANCE AND
PROMOTION OF GOOD ORDER
AND RELIGION
Location: ON NYS 21 AT PULTNEYVILLE

County: WAYNE
Town: WOLCOTT, TOWN OF

WOLCOTT FALLS
CALLED BY INDIANS
"gANADASGUA", LEAPING
WATERS ABOVE THE LAKE.
SITE OF MELVIN'S MILLS
ESTABLISHED 1809
Location: ON US 104 AT WOLCOTT

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: CORTLANDT, TOWN OF

CAMP SMITH
NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD
TRAINING CAMP ESTABLISHED
1882. CONTAINS 1900 ACRES.
NAMED FOR ALFRED E. SMITH,
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
Location: SEMINARY AVE., NO. OF ENTRANCE TO SEMINARY
CAMP SMITH
NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD
TRAINING CAMP ESTABLISHED
1882. CONTAINS 1900 ACRES.
NAMED FOR ALFRED E. SMITH,
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
Location: US 6-202, NR. BEAR MT. BRIDGE
CAMP SMITH
NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD
TRAINING CAMP ESTABLISHED
1882. CONTAINS 1900 ACRES.
NAMED FOR ALFRED E. SMITH,
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
Location: US 6-202, SO. BEAR MT. BRIDGE
CROMPOUND ROAD
MAIN ROAD FROM
YORKTOWN TO PEEKSKILL
IN COLONIAL DAYS AND
DURING THE REVOLUTION
Location: US 202, E. OF PEEKSKILL, CLINTON AVE. & CROMPOUND RD.
JAN PEECK BRIDGE
NAMED TO COMMEMORATE
THE PLACE WHERE JAN PEECK,
DUTCH TRADER, 1640-1650,
MET INDIANS TO TRADE FOR FURS
Location: US 6, US 9 AND US 202, NO. OF PEEKSKILL CREEK BRIDGE
JAN PEECK BRIDGE
NAMED TO COMMEMORATE
THE PLACE WHERE JAN PEECK,
DUTCH TRADER, 1640-1650,
MET INDIANS TO TRADE FOR FURS
Location: US 6, US 9 AND US 202, SO. OF PEEKSKILL CREEK BRIDGE
KINGS FERRY
IMPORTANT RIVER CROSSING
IN COLONIAL DAYS AND THE
REVOLUTION. USED BY FRENCH
AND AMERICAN ARMIES ON
MARCH TO YORKTOWN IN 1782
Location: KINGS FERRY RD., NEAR VERPLANCK
POST HANNOCH HOUSE
OWNER OPERATED KINGS FERRTY
1664. COLONEL LIVINGSTON'S
HEADQUARTERS, 1781. WASHINGTON
PRESENTED MEDALS TO CAPTORS
OF ANDRE HERE IN 1782
Location: KINGS FERRY RD., 1 MI. W. OF US 9

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: EASTCHESTER, TOWN OF

SUNSET HILL
WHERE IN THE YEAR 1666
GRAMATAN
CHIEF OF THE MOHICAN INDIANS
SIGNED THE DEED TRANSFERRING
EASTCHESTER TO THE WHITE MAN
Location: PONDFIELD RD., W. OF VALLEY RD., BRONXVILLE

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: GREENBURGH, TOWN OF

ANDRE CAPTURED
HERE IN 1780 THREE HONEST
MILITIAMEN ARRESTED MAJOR
JOHN ANDRE ADJT-GEN. BRITISH
ARMY, DISGUISED, PREVENTING
DISASTER TO AMERICAN CAUSE.
Location: US 9 AT PARK ENTRANCE, TARRYTOWN
ASBURY M.E. CHURCH
FOUNDED 1796 BY REV. JOHN
BARNET MATTHIAS, ITINERANT
PREACHER. CHURCH FIRST
INCORPORATED IN 1807.
THIS BUILDING ERECTED 1837.
Location: WASHINGTON AND ELIZABETH STS., TARRYTOWN
BATTLE OF
EDGAR'S LANE
SEPT. 30, 1778 CONTINENTAL
DRAGOONS UNDER MAJ. HENRY
LEE KILLED 23 HESSIANS ON A
MARAUDING EXPEDITION. BATTLE
WAGED FROM HERE TO RAVINE.
Location: US 9, NO. OF FARRAGUT PKWY. IN HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON
CHRIST CHURCH
ERECTED IN 1837. FOR MANY
YEARS WASHINGTON IRVING
WAS VESTRYMAN AND WARDEN.
IVY IS FROM CUTTINGS FROM
VINE ON HIS HOME SUNNYSIDE.
Location: US 9 AND ELIZABETH ST., TARRYTOWN
DRAPER PARK
MEMORIAL TO
DR. JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER 1811-1882
CHEMIST, PHILOSOPHER, HISTORIAN
FIRST PHOTOGRAPHED THE HUMAN
FACE, 1839
Location: US 9 & WASHINGTON AVE., IN HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON
DRAPER PARK
MEMORIAL TO
DR. JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
1811-1882
ASTRONOMER AND HISTORIAN
WHO MADE HERE 1ST PHOTOGRAPH OF MOON
Location: IN JOHN W. DRAPER MEMORIAL PK. US 9 & WASHINGTON AVE., IN HASTINGS-ON-HUDSO
EARTH REDOUBT
CONSTRUCTED IN REVOLUTION,
FROM HERE THE LOCAL WATER
GUARD CANNONADED BRITISH
SLOOP VULTURE RETURNING
FROM ANDRE-ARNOLD MEETING.
Location: FOOT OF CHURCH ST., TARRYTOWN
FRENCH CAMP
HEREABOUTS, FRENCH TROOPS,
UNDER COUNT DE ROCHAMBEAU,
SENT TO ASSIST WASHINGTON
MADE THEIR CAMP JULY 6,
TO AUGUST 19, 1781.
Location: UNDERHILL RD. & CLAYTON ST., E. OF ARDSLEY
ISAAC VAN WART
ONE OF MAJOR ANDRE'S
CAPTORS SEPT. 23, 1780
ELMSFORD CITIZEN 1758-1820
BURIED HERE
Location: NYS 9A, BETWEEN MAIN & VAN WART STS., ELMSFORD
SECOND REFORMED
CHURCH
ERECTED IN 1837 AS SOUTH
CHURCH OF OLD DUTCH CHURCH
OF SLEEPY HOLLOW BECAME A
SEPARATE CONGREGATION 1851
Location: US 9 AND CENTRAL AVE., TARRYTOWN
SITE OF
COUENHOVEN INN
TAVERN USED DURING
REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WHERE
WASHINGTON RESTED AND
HELD CONFERENCE.
LATER MARTIN SMITH'S INN.
Location: US 9 AND MAIN ST., TARRYTOWN
SITE OF MOTT HOME
SCHOOL LAWN WAS SITE OF
OLD HOME BUILT 1712. SCENE
OF ACTIVITY IN REVOLUTION.
SAID TO BE HOME OF IRVING'S
HEROINE KATRINA VAN TASSEL.
Location: US 9, NO. OF HAMILTON PL., TARRYTOWN

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: MOUNT PLEASANT, TOWN OF

JOHN DEAN ROCK
REFUGE OF
CAPTAIN JOHN DEAN
DURING THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Location: SAW MILL R. PKWY., SO. OF HAWTHORNE CIRCLE
SITE OF
GRAHAM HOME
DR. ISAAC GILBERT GRAHAM
BORON SEPT.10, 1760 - DIED SEPT.13, 1849
SURGEON'S MATE, 1781-1783
IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Location: ACCESS DR., THORNWOOD
SITE OF HOME
SERGEANT STAATS HAMMOND
1744-1820
THE LAST STOPPING PLACE
OF MAJOR ANDRE BEFORE
HIS CAPTURE AT TARRYTOWN
Location: S.E. SIDE HAWTHORNE TRAFFIC CIRCLE
THE HEADLESS
HORSEMAN BRIDGE
DESCRIBED BY IRVING IN THE
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
FORMERLY SPANNED THIS
STREAM NEAR THIS SPOT.
Location: US 9, NO. OF STONE BRIDGE, NORTH TARRYTOWN
THE OLD
DUTCH CHURCH
OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, BUILT 1697
BY FREDERICK PHILIPSE, FIRST
LORD OF THE MANOR. IN USE
SINCE EXCEPT IN REVOLUTION
Location: US 9 AT DEVENS AVE., NORTH TARRYTOWN

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: MOUNT VERNON, CITY OF

"BILLY"
CRAWFORD'S
TAVERN
BUILT IN 1732
WESTCHESTER LODGE
MET HERE IN 1797
Location: SO. COLUMBUS AVE., E. OF SO. THIRD AVE.
"BROM" DYCKMAN
A "WESTCHESTER SCOUT"
WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED
HERE DURING A SKIRMISH
ON MARCH 4, 1782
Location: W. FIRST ST. & SO. 11TH AVE.
APPROACHING
SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH
EASTCHESTER
FOUNDED 1665
Location: SO. COLUMBUS & SO. FULTON AVES.
COLONIAL ROAD
FROM
PHILIPSE MANOR
TO
OLD BOSTON POST ROAD
AT EASTCHESTER
Location: SO. THIRD AVE. AT WASHINGTON BLVD.
COLONIAL ROAD
FROM PHILIPSE MANOR
TO
EASTCHESTER
CROSSED HERE
Location: MACQUESTEN PKWY. NO., AT OAK ST.
EASTCHESTER
LANE
PART OF COLONIAL ROAD FROM
PHILIPSE MANOR
TO
EASTCHESTER
Location: SO. 11TH AVE. & EASTCHESTER LANE
HUNT HOUSE
PURCHASED BY
ISRAEL HUNT FROM
THOMAS LAWRENCE, 1789.
Location: RD. TO CROSS COUNTY PKWY. FROM NO. COLUMBUS AVE.
SITE OF
FOWLER'S TAVERN
BUILT IN 1733, REBUILT 1799
WHERE MILITIA GATHERED
IN 1776. MASONS MET HERE
1700-1814
Location: SO. COLUMBUS AVE. AT SO. THIRD AVE.
SITE OF
MORRELL'S TAVERN
AT A SKIRMISH HERE
ON OCTOBER 23, 1776,
TEN HESSIANS AND
ONE AMERICAN FELL
Location: NO. COLUMBUS AVE., NO. OF SHERMAN AVE.

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: NEW ROCHELLE, CITY OF

[ARROW]
COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE
FIRST CATHOLIC COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
IN NEW YORK STATE, FOUNDED 1904
Location: S.E. CORNER MAIN ST. & PINTARD AVE.
[ARROW]
COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE
FIRST CATHOLIC COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
IN NEW YORK STATE, FOUNDED 1904
Location: N.W. CORNER PELHAM RD. & LELAND AVE.

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: OSSINING, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF
JOHN L. WORDEN 1818-1897
REAR ADMIRAL U.S. NAVY
COMMANDED "MONITOR" AGAINST
"MERRIMAC" HAMPTON ROADS,
VIRGINIA, MARCH 9, 1862
Location: US 9, SO. OF SCARBOROUGH RD.
ROBERT HAVELL
1793-1878
WORLD FAMOUS ENGRAVER OF
AUDUBON'S "BIRDS OF AMERICA"
LIVED MANY YEARS IN HIS HOUSE
AT FURTHER END OF THIS STREET.
Location: US 9 AT HAVELL ST., IN OSSINING
SPARTA CEMETERY
SET APART BY COL. PHILIPSE
GRAVES OF REV. SOLDIERS.
CANNON FIRE HIT TOMBSTONE.
FIRST SITE OF PRES. CHURCH
MOVED TO SING SING IN 1800.
Location: US 9 AT CEMETERY, OSSINING
UNION HOTEL
STOOD ON THIS CORNER ABOUT
1800 TO 1890. OWNED BY
ENOCH CROSBY, JR., LATER BY
SIMEON M. TOMPKINS. STAGE
STOP N.Y. - ALBANY & SOMERS.
Location: US 9 AT CHURCH ST., OSSINING

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: SCARSDALE, TOWN OF

SITE OF
JAMES FENIMORE
COOPER RESIDENCE.
ERECTED 1817. HERE WAS
WRITTEN THE SPY 1821.
Location: MAMARONECK RD. BETWEEN MURRAY HILL & KELWYNNE RD.

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: YONKERS, CITY OF

CAMPING GROUND
FOR AMERICAN AND BRITISH
FORCES DURING THE REVOLUTION.
WASHINGTON USED NEARBY
VALENTINE HOMESTEAD FOR
HEADQUARTERS FREQUENTLY.
Location: SEMINARY AVE.& MILE SQUARE RD.
COLONIAL ROAD
SPRAIN ROAD OVER WHICH
AMERICAN FORCES PASSED IN
ADVANCE AND RETREAT
BEFORE THE BATTLE OF
WHITE PLAINS, OCT. 28, 1776
Location: SPRAIN RD., AT AUSTIN AVE.
COLONIAL ROAD
SPRAIN ROAD OVER WHICH
AMERICAN FORCES PASSED IN
ADVANCE AND RETREAT
BEFORE THE BATTLE OF
WHITE PLAINS, OCT. 28, 1776
Location: SPRAIN RD., SO OF BRIDGE
COLONIAL ROAD
SPRAIN ROAD OVER WHICH
AMERICAN FORCES PASSED IN
ADVANCE AND RETREAT
BEFORE THE BATTLE OF
WHITE PLAINS, OCT. 28, 1776
Location: SPRAIN RD., NO. OF CEMETERY ENTRANCE
COLONIAL ROAD
SPRAIN ROAD OVER WHICH
AMERICAN FORCES PASSED IN
ADVANCE AND RETREAT
BEFORE THE BATTLE OF
WHITE PLAINS, OCT. 28, 1776
Location: SPRAIN R., NO. OF TUCKAHOE RD.
MANOR HALL
BEGUN 1682, FINISHED 1745
SEAT OF PHILIPSE FAMILY
UNTIL 1779. CONTAINS THE
COCHRAN COLLECTION OF
PORTRAITS OF PRESIDENTS
Location: WARBURTON AVE. & DOCK ST.
MILE SQUARE ROAD
COLONIAL ROAD, EASTCHESTER
TO WHITE PLAINS, USED BY
AMERICAN FORCES BEFORE
BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS,
OCT. 28, 1776
Location: MILE SQUARE RD., W. OF BRONX RIVER RD.
MILE SQUARE ROAD
COLONIAL ROAD, EASTCHESTER
TO WHITE PLAINS, USED BY
AMERICAN FORCES BEFORE
BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS,
OCT. 28, 1776
Location: MILE SQUARE RD., E. OF CENTRAL PARK AVE.
SITE OF
VALENTINE HOMESTEAD
WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS
AT VARIOUS TIMES DURING
THE REVOLUTION. HOUSE STOOD
150 FEET BACK OF STONE MARKERS.
Location: SEMINARY AVE., NO. OF ENTRANCE TO SEMINARY
SITE OF
THE GLEBE
125 FEET EAST OF THIS SPOT
STOOD ST. JOHN'S RECTORY,
1770 - 1845 ON LAND GIVEN BY
FREDERICK PHILIPSE 1751.
SCENE OF SKIRMISHES 1778.
Location: SAW MILL R. RD., NO. OF ASHBURTON AVE.
ST. JOHNS
FIRST PUBLIC BURIAL GROUND
IN YONKERS - ABOUT 1783.
GRAVES OF SOLDIERS OF
REVOLUTION AND LATER WARS;
ALSO EARLY SETTLERS OF YONKERS
Location: SAW MILL R. RD., NO. OF ASHBURTON AVE.
YONKERS
NAMED FOR THE "JONKHEER"
ADRIEN VAN DER DONCK
PATENTEE OF COLEN DONCK
1641. BECAME PART OF MANOR
OF PHILIPSBOROUGH 1693
Location: US 9, NO. OF DUDLEY ST.

County: WESTCHESTER
Town: YORKTOWN, TOWN OF

GEN. ROCHAMBEAU
HEADQUARTERS FOR SIX WEEKS
IN 1781-1782
Location: SPRAIN RD. SO. OF BRIDGE
PARSONAGE SITE
OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
HEADQUARTERS OF YORKTOWN
COMMITTEE WHO DISARMED
LOYALISTS IN 1776.
BURNT BY BRITISH IN 1779
Location: N.W. CORNER US 202 & NYS 132, AT YORKTOWN
PINES BRIDGE
OLD CROTON RIVER CROSSING
IMPORTANT BRIDGE HEAD
GUARDED BY AMERICAN TROOPS
DURING THE REVOLUTION
Location: NYS 100, NO. SIDE OF BRIDGE OVER CROTON RESERVOIR
YORKTOWN CHURCH
BUILT BY PRESBYTERIANS IN
1738. ARMY STORE HOUSE
DURING REVOLUTION. BURNED
BY BRITISH 1779. PRESENT
BUILDING ERECTED 1799
Location: N.W. CORNER US 202 & NYS 132, AT YORKTOWN

County: WYOMING
Town: MIDDLEBURY, TOWN OF

FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
OF MIDDLEBURY
ORGANIZED WITH 15 MEMBERS
JUNE 14, 1817
Location: ON NYS 19 IN WYOMING
WEST MIDDLEBURY
BAPTIST CHURCH
ORGANIZED WITH 17 MEMBERS
MARCH 11, 1811
PRESENT BUILDING
DEDICATED JUNE 21, 1832
Location: ON CO. RD. 47 IN HAMLET OF WEST MIDDLEBURY

County: WYOMING
Town: SHELDON, TOWN OF

HAMILTON SITE 1807
VETERAN PHYSICIAN OF THE
HOLLARD LAND COMPANY
PIONEER SETTLER
EXTENSIVE LAND OWNER
SURGEON IN THE
WAR OF 1812
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF VARYSBURG
TURNER'S
CORNERS
PIONEER OUTPOST 1804
ON INDIAN TRAIL FROM
PORTAGE TO LAKE ERIE
Location: ON US 20A ABOUT 4-1/2 MILES WEST OF VARYSBURG

County: YATES
Town: BENTON, TOWN OF

METHODIST CHURCH
BENTON CLASS FORMED 1793
EZRA COLE PREACHED 1792
OLDEST EXISTING RELIGIOUS
SOCIETY IN YATES CO. AND OF
METHODISM IN WESTERN N.Y.
Location: ON NYS 14A AT BENTON CRNRS.

County: YATES
Town: BRANCHPORT, TOWN OF

RED JACKET
NEAR THIS SPOT STOOD THE
CABIN HOME OCCUPIED BY
PARENTS OF NOTED SENECA
CHIEF RED JACKET, 1752.
HIS MOTHER'S GRAVE IS HERE
Location: ON NYS 54A ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF BRANCHPORT

County: YATES
Town: JERUSALEM, TOWN OF

BUILT ABOUT 1790
FRIEND'S HOME
HERE LIVED
JEMIMA WILKINSON
KNOWN AS
THE UNIVERSAL FRIEND
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF BRANCHPORT
HERE LIVED
GU-YA-NO-GA
INDIAN CHIEF OF THE
SENECA NATION
FRIEND OF THE REVOLUTION
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF BRANCHPORT

County: YATES
Town: MIDDLESEX, TOWN OF

INDIAN BURIALS
HERE IS AN INDIAN BURIAL
PLACE OF THE PERIOD PRIOR
TO THE COMING OF EARLY
SENECAS. EXCAVATED BY
STATE MUSEUM 1922
Location: IN VINE VALLEY

County: YATES
Town: POTTER, TOWN OF

BUILT ABOUT 1790
POTTER MANSION
HOME OF ARNOLD POTTER
PIONEER & EARLY SETTLER
AFTER WHOM TOWN IS NAMED
Location: ON CO. RD. ABOUT 3-1/2 MILES NORTHWEST OF PENN YAN

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