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County: ALBANY
Town: ALBANY, CITY OF

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.
CALLED FORT NASSAU 1614,
FORT ORANGE 1624,
BEVERWYCK 1652, ALBANY
1664; CHARTERED 1686
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.
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 THE 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 PEACH BY GOV. DONGAN
GOV. HOWARD OF VA. AND
FIVE NATIONS AT COURT HOUSE
WHICH STOOD 100 FEET WEST
Location: PLAZA, BROADWAY AT FOOT OF STATE ST.
JOHN TUNNICLIFF, JR.
1751-1814
CLOCKMAKER 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
Location: EAGLE AND PINE STS.

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. W. OF 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
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, FIRST
PASTOR JOHANNES SCHUYLER
1767. OLDEST CHURCH IN
COUNTY OUTSIDE OF ALBANY
Location: NYS 43, .5 MI. W. 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
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
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 FROMTHE 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
MANUFACTURE 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, CHOES, 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 FOR STANWIX -
AUG. 14, 1777
Location: CONTINENTAL AVE., S. OF SCHOOL
SITE OF
REFORMED CHURCH
OF THE BOGHT
ONE OF THE FIRST CHURCHES NORTH
OF ALBANY, BUILT ABOUT 1783
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 HENERALS ENOCH POOR
AND BENEDICT ARNOLD
Location: FONDA RD. AT POWER STATION
OLD LOUDON
ROAD
NAMED AFTER EARL LOUDON
IN 1756. ROUTE OF BRITISH
AND AMERICAN ARMIES TO
MONTREAL
Location: FONDA RD. AT POWER STATION
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: US 20, AT 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, 1669
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., ALTAMONT
OLD PLANK ROAD
SCHOHARIE TO ALBANY
FOLLOWED THIS ROUTE
CHARTERED 1849
ABANDONED 1867
Location: MAIN ST. AND BRANDLE RD., 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
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
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
INDIAN VILLAGE
NEIGHBORING STREAM CALLED
WILDEHAUSE KILL
OR INDIAN HOUSE CREEK
Location: N. OF US 20 AT DUNNSVILLE
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 145, NW OF PRESTON HOLLOW AT ALBANY
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.,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: 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: 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
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 DEDGWICK 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 FORM 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 WHICHMADE 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 ROADTE MANY OF
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,
SECRUED 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
TRATY OADK, 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 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

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 ANDNYS 12 ABOUT 1/2 MILES 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
DISCOVRED 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 YOURSHIRE
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 CEMENTERY
MOST OF THE SETTLERS OF
HARBENBERGH'S CORNERS
AND EARLY INHAVITANTS 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. 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
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
WILLARD TAVERN 1810
REBUILT 1828-1830 AS
AMERICAN HOTEL
BURIED 1879
Location: ON 2ND STORY FACE METCALF BLDG., 141 GENESEE ST.
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 RE
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

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 SETTLE
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.
OLD GENESEE ROAD
FROM HARDENBERGH CORNERS
TO HARRIS FERRY CROSSED
HERE
Location: ON STATE RD. 326, 1 MILE NORTH OF OAKWOOD
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
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 SETTLE
SITE OF
CAYUGA LONG BRIDGE
ONE MILE LONG, 1800-1857
CARRIED GREAT STEAM OF
WESTERN MIGRATION
EARLY COUNTY JAIL WAS
UNDER THIS END OF BRIDGE
Location: N CAYUGA VILLAGE ON GREEN AT END OF GENESEE ST.
SULLIVAN'S CAMPAIGN
ONE MILE WEST
CO.. 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: 1/2 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 FIRE
GEO. SNYDER, A SOLIDER
OF THE REVOLUTION AND
ISRAEL WOLVERTON
Location: CONQUEST VLGE. ON RTE. 38

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 SETTLED
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 FROM CONSTRUCTION
ON EARLY FARM HOIUSES
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
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
SITE OF
OLD CHURCH
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL IN TOWN
ON MILTON. ORGANIZED 1798.
FIRST LOG MEETING HOUSE
BUILT HERE IN 1802
Location: 1 MILE EAST AND 1 MILE SOUTH OF KINGS FERRY
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. ROSEWLL 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-OPLAR RIDGE RD. 1/2 MILE. WEST RR
PAINES SCREEK 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
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
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
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: RTE. 90 OPP. PAINES CREEK RD. TO POPLAR RIDGE
TO
MOONSHINE FALLS
[ARROW]
Location: PROSPECT CRS. 1 MIL. E. RTE. 60
UPPER CAYUGA
MARKING THE PROBABLE
FORTIFICATION FOR NEARBY
INDIAN VILLAGES DESTROYED
BY CO. 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 HERE IN 1831. HE
WAS BAPTIED IN 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.
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
FROMED FROM SEMPRONIUS IN
1833. VILLAGE OR 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 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, 1922-42
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
SALES, 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 1779
FIRST STONE CHURCH BUILT
ON THIS SITE 1808
PRESENT CHURCH BUILT 1825
Location: NO. SIDE ST. E. OF CENTER SENNETT
BLACKSMITH
SHOP
BUILT PRIOR TO 1825
LOCAL METHODIST SOCIETY
HERE ORGANIZED AND PLANNED
ERECTION OF THEIR CHURCH
Location: SO. SIDE ROAD E. OF 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
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
SITE TWO MILES EAST
CAYUGA VILLAGE DESTROYED
IN SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN
SEPTEMBER 1779
Location: JUNCTION RTE. 90 & GREAT GULLY ROAD
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 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
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
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
WHER 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
TOWN OF STERLING
STERLING VALLEY
FIRST SETTLEMENT MADE HERE
1805 BY PETER DUMUS, 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
STERING. 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

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
OLD SALT ROAD
OVER THIS ROAD
SALT
WAS FORMERLY TRANSPORTED
OVERLAND FROM SYRACUSE TO
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK
Location: IN SUMMERHILL, RTE. 90
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
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. THROOPN
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: ON RTE. 34 NO. OF TOWN LINE
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
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
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 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 WILLAIM 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: ON NYS 17, VLGE. OF MAYVILLE
PIONEER HOME
JUNE, 1806 WILLIAM AND
JUNE, 1806 WILLIAM AND
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 THESER
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
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
METHHODIST 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.
SITE OF
JAMESTOWN FEMALE
SEMINARY
1849-1859, CLAIRISSA 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
WHITE FRANCH AND INDIANS
PASSED DOWN THE CHADAKOIN
TO THE ALLEGANY IN 1749
CLAIMING THE TERRITORY,
FOR FRANCE
Location: ON FAIRMONT AVENUE

County: CHAUTAUQUA
Town: RIPLEY, TOWN OF

SITE OF
SITE OF
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 12 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
THE 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 13, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 AT BIG FLATS

County: CHEMUNG
Town: CHEMUNG, TOWN OF

CAMP OF
GEN. CLINTON'S
BRIGADE
SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN
AUGUST 28, 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 2 MIS. W. OF CHEMUNG
CAMP OF
GEN. MAXWELL'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 AT 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
OLD CHEMUNG
INDIAN VILLAGE
DESTROYED BY GEN. SULLIVAN
AUGUST 13, 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 IS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 17 AT ENTRANCE TO NEWTOWN BATTLEFIELD STATE PARK
MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON IS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE BRITISH
AND INDIANS OF WESTERN
NEW YORK IN 1779
Location: ON NYS 13 & NYS 17 IN ELMIRA HEIGHTS

County: CHEMUNG
Town: HORSEHEADS, TOWN OF

MILITARY ROUTE
OF THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON
ARMY ON IS 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: 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 NYS 9N AT CLINTONVILLE
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

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 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
SITE OF HOME
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
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
ZETHANIAH 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 SOX REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIERS AND MANY PIONEERS
OF CLINTON COUNTY
Location: ON NYS 3 ABOUT 1/2 MILE EAST OF WEST PLATTSBURGH
HOME OF
JOHN ADDAMS
BUILT 1790
MAJOR AND SURVEYOR DURING
ENTIRE PERIOD OF REVOLUTION
Location: ON CO. RD. CUMBERLAND HEAD
HOME OF
GENERAL BENJAMIN
MOOERS
1758-1838
VETERAN OF REVOLUTION
AND WAR OF 1812
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 EFORE 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: NYS 9G, NORTH OF TIVOLI
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

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
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
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
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
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
PLOW FURNACE
ESTABLISHED 1840 BY MOSES
SPAULDING ON SPAULDING
CREEK. ABANDONED 1910.
Location: CO. RD. AT SPAULDING FURANCE
STAGE INN
J. SUYDAM'S HOTEL, 1798-1822;
DR. C. DUYDAM'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
SCHOOLHOUSE
IN GERMANTOWN. BUILT BY
PALATINES IN 1711. LOCATED
JUST WEST OF THIS POINT
Location: CO. RD. S. OF GERMANTOWN
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
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, DISCOVERED 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
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 CLUMBIA
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: "THE KINGS HIE WAY
BINGHAM'S MILLS
NAMED FOR CHARLES BINGHAM.
FORMERLY BAKER'S MILLS. 20
DWELLINGS, M.E. CHAPEL, 2
MILLS, BLACKSMITH SHOP AND
WOOLEN FACTORY
Location: NAMED FOR CHARLES BINGHAM.
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: HUDSON RIVER ORE IRON CO.
CALENDAR HOUSE
BUILT BY SAMUEL TEN BROEK
IN 1773. LATER PURCHASED
BY GEN. HARRY LIVINGSTON
WHOSE DESCENDANTS HELD
IT UNTIL 1861
Location: BUILT BY SAMUEL TEN BROEK
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: INCORPORATED IN 1804.
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 3ED PRO-
PRIETOR OF THE MANOR 1792.
TWIN MARKER AT LIVINGSTON.
Location: DIVIDING INHERITANCES OF
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
LINE HOUSE
TAVERN AND STAGE INN
BEFORE 1790.
JOHN MANNY
FIRST PROPRIETOR
Location: TAVERN AND STAGE INN
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., EAST OF BELL'S POND
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-CLERMONT LINE
LIVINGSTON A MANOR 1686,
DISTRICT 1772; INCLUDED
ANCRAM, CLERMONT, COPKAE
GALLATIN, GERMANTOWN,
TAGHKANIC. TOWN 1788.
Location: LIVINGSTON A MANOR 1686,
LIVINGSTON-CLERMONT LINE
LIVINGSTON A MANOR 1686,
DISTRICT 1772, INCLUDED
ANCRAM, CLERMONT, COPKAE,
GALLATIN, GERMANTOWN,
TAGHKANIC. TOWN 1788.
Location: LIVINGSTON A MANOR 1686,
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: BUILT IN 1803.
POST ROAD - 1772
ALBANY TO NEW YORK. WEEKLY
MAIL SERVICE ESTABLISHED
ON HORSEBACK. PASSENGER
SERVICE BY COVERED WAGONS
AND FOUR HORSES IN 1786
Location: ALBANY TO NEW YORK. WEEKLY
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: GOOD HOPE MILLS
TEVIOTDALE
BUILT ABOUT 1773 LIVINGSTON-
FULTON HOUSE HOME ON HON.
WALTER LIVINGSTON AND OF
SON-IN-LAW ROBERT FULTON
Location: BUILT ABOUT 1773 LIVINGSTON-
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: BEGUN BY PETER R. LIVINGSTON
TOWN OF
LIVINGSTON - 1788
CONTAINED BAKERS MILLS,
BLUE STORES, BURDEN,
ELIZAVILLE, GLENCO MILLS,
LINLITHGO, AND WALKER'S MILLS.
Location: LIVINGSTON - 1788
UNION CORNERS
IN TOWNS OF GALLATIN
AND LIVINGSTON. SETTLED BEFORE
1790. POST OFFICE
ESTABLISHED 1840. NAMED FROM
UNION CORNERS HOUSE, A TAVERN.
Location: IN TOWNS OF GALLATIN

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. JOHNATHAN 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, 1624;
UNDER ENGLISH RULE AFTER
1664. NAMED FRO 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
FALLS
IN 1800 SLOOPS CAME AS
FAR AS THESE FALLS FROM
THE HUDSON RIVER
Location: US 9, S. OF BRIDGE
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
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 BRIGE 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,
PORPRIETOR 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
LANDING
SET OFF FROM TOWN OFD 1858
KINDERHOOK 1823.
NOW PART OF THE TOWN
OF STUYVESANT.
Location: NYS 9J & NYS 398 AT 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
THIS MARKS THE NORTHWEST
POINT OF THIS EARLY GRANT
Location: NYS 9J, N. OF STUYVESANT
POWELL PATENT
1664
THE SOUTHWEST POINT OF
THE GRANT IS NORTH OF
"SWARTE HOOCK"
Location: NYS 9J, S. OF STUYVESANT
POWELL PATENT
1664
DIRECTLY EAST TO CREEK
MARKS SOUTHEAST
POINT OF GRANT
Location: EAST OF US 9, TO SUNNYSIDE
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
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
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
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
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., NEAR 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., SOUTH OF CHURCHTOWN
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-HILLSDALE 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-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 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
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
STATE ROAD
IN TOWN OF VIRGIL
BUILT 1793-94 BETWEEN
OXFORD AND CAYUGA
BY JOSEPH CHAPLIN
Location: ON NYS 90 IN VIRGIL
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
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: 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
[ARROW]
RED MEETING HOUSE
"CARMEL IN NINE PARTNERS,"
FIRST CHURCH IN AMENIA, WAS
FORMERLY NEAR CEMETERY.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD, FAMOUS
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 9D, S. OF BEACON
CITY OF BEACON
INCORPORATED MAY 15, 1913
CONSOLIDATION OF MATTEWAN
AND FISHKILL LANDING
VILLAGES
Location: NYS 52, E. OF BEACON
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.
FISHKILL LANDING
ONE OF OLDEST LANDINS ALONG
HUDSON RIVER. DURING REV.
SUPPLIES FOR TROOPS IN
NEWBURGH & N.J. FROM NEW
ENGLAND BROUGHT ACROSS RIVER
Location: BEEKMAN AND RIVER STS.
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
[ARROW]
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 CAL 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. 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
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

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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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
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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

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
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
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
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. ALI
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 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
NORTHEAST LINE
INE 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-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
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
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
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.
Location: ACADEMY AND SMITH STS., IN PINE PLAINS
SITE OF
GRINDING WORKS
FOUNDED BY COL. SILAS
HARRIS ABOUT 1832.
Location: NYS 82, 3 MIS. SE 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: US 9, S. 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: NYS 376, SE 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
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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 OTHER
Location: US 9, AT BR. IN RHINEBECK
LONG DOCK
LANDING FOR FERRY CHARTERED
1752, CONNECTING THE ULSTER
AS 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: STATE ROUTE #9, SOUTH ROAD
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

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
Location: ON DELAWARE AVENUE

County: ERIE
Town: CHEEKTOWAGA, TOWN OF

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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 (1834-1864) OF
CHRISTIAN METZ
LEADER OF THE COMMUNITY
OF TRUE INSPIRATION
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Location: VILLAGE OF GARDENVILLE BY BRIDGE OVER BUFFALO CREEK

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 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
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

County: ESSEX
Town: CROWN POINT, TOWN OF

500 FT.
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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 9N 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
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,
EARLY PIONEER OF CHAMPLAIN
VALLEY, MET HIS TRAGIC
DEATH IN 1796
Location: ON NYS 22 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF WADHAMS
COON MOUNTAIN
NEAR THE NORTHERN BASE OF THIS
MOUNTAIN, WILLIAM GILLILAND,
EARLYPIONEER OF CHAMPLAIN
VALLEY, MET HIS TRAGIC
DEATH IN 1796
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: GENERAL AMHERST'S ARMY.

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 AT 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
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
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 1ﾽ 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 1 1/2 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
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
ARROW
ON HILL ABOVE
MOUNT HOPE BATTERY
OCCUPIED BY GENERAL BURGOYNE
1777
Location: ON MT/HOPE AVE. AT TICONDEROGA
COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY
MILITARY ROAD
CROWN POINT TO TICONDEROGA
Location: ON NYS 8 & NYS 22 ABOUT 3ﾽ MIS. N. OF 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
FATHER JOGUES
RENE GOUPIL AND GUILLAUME
COUTRE IN 1642 WERE THE
FIRST WHITE MEN TO SEE THESE
FIRST WHITE MEN TO SEE THESE
SACREMENT BY JOGUES IN 1646
Location: ON BLACK POINT RD. SOUTH 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
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
IROQUOIS WARRIORS
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT 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 6, 1758
LORD HOWE
WASKILLED 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. AT 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
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.
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
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.
REPAIRED BY
AMERICAN TROOPS 1776.
Location: ON FT. TICONDEROGA RESERVATION AT 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
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

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 WE
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

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 2ﾽ MILES SOUTH OF 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
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 BILLILAND;
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 HOGANSBURH
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 HOGANSBURH
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 BAPIST
CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1821. 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 CONVNGTN.
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; PRESNET 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 INTHE UNITED STATES.
Location: ON WEST STATE ST.
JOHNSON TRAIL
USED BY SIR WM. JOHNSON
1726-1774 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]
COLONIAL
CEMETERY
REMAINS OF MANY JOHNSTOWN
NOTABLES OF COLONIAL
AND REVOLUTIONARY DAYS
BURIED HERE
Location: ON WEST GREEN ST.
[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]
BARONIAL HOME OF
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
ERECTED 1762
OPEN TO VISITORS
Location: AT INTERSECTION W. STATE ST. AND HALL AVE.
[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] 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
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]
RICEVILLE CEMETERY
HERE ARE BURIED JOHATHAN FISK-
OLIVER RICE-WILLIAM WOODWORTH-
SAMUEL WOODWORTH-JESSE FOOTE-
ISAAC BEMIS-JONATHAN CANFIELD-
SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION
Location: ON NYS 148 AT RICEVILLE
[ARROW]
BURYING GROUND
OF MAJOR HARMON AND
FRANCIS VAN BUREN, SEVENTH
ALBANY COUTNY REGIMENT;
REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
SETTLERS ON THIS LAND.
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 2 MIS. S.E. OF 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]
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

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 CO. 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 AGEN 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
ALBERTUA 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
NORTHUP
HOUSE
BUILT 1803
HOME OF ISAAC NORTHUP
FOUNDER OF ATHENS VILLAGE
INCORPORATED 1805
Location: ON NYS 385 AT ATHENS

County: GREENE
Town: CAIRO, TOWN OF

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 ENOCHHYDE 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
WOODSTOCK
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN
TOWN OF CAIRO
BY JAMES BARKER AND
TENANTRY IN 1791
Location: ON NYS 32 ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF CAIRO

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 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]
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]
INDIAN TRAIL
TO
FORT ON ROUND TOP
NOW KAATERSKILL CLOVE
Location: ON NYS 23A & 32A ABOUT 1/2 MI. WEST PALENVILLE
[ARROW]
HOUSE BUILT IN 1814
BY
CAPT. JOS. ALLEN
SEA CAPTAIN
DURING REVOLUTION
Location: NYS 23 & 145, JEFFERSON HGTS.
[ARROW]
OLD INN
OF MARTIN G. SCHUNEMAN
BUILT 1796
Location: ON NYS 23 & 145, LEEDS
[ARROW]
FOOTPATH
FROM OLD INDIAN FORT
CALLED CASTEEL HOOGTE
TO COXSACKIE
Location: ON NYS 23 & 145 AT JEFFERSON HGTS.
[ARROW]
PACHQUIACK
"OPEN COUNTRY"
PURCHASED FROM INDIANS
BY JAN BRONK, 1675
FORMERLY MADISON, NOW
LEEDS
Location: ON NYS 23, & 145, LEEDS

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 CREEEK 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 145 ABOUT 2 1/2 MIS. W. OF VLG. OF EAST DURHAM

County: GREENE
Town: PRATTSVILLE, TOWN OF

REFORMED
CHURCH
FIRST IN MOUNTAIN TOWNS
OF GREENE COUNTY
ORGANIZED IN 1798
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 FUN 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
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
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

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
CHARLES F. WHEELOCK
1849-1928
SCHOOL TEACHER AND
EDUCATOR FOR HALF CENTURY
Location: ON TN. RD. ABOUT 1/2 MI. N. OF CRANES CORNERS
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
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
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 CO. 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
FENCH-INDIAN, REVOLUTION,
WAR OF 1812, CIVIL WAR
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT NORWAY

County: HERKIMER
Town: OHIO, TOWN OF

WOOD HOME
WHEELOCK WOOD (1894-1887)
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: 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 RODIERE
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

County: JEFFERSON
Town: CLAYTON, TOWN OF

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
FORY 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

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

County: JEFFERSON
Town: HOUNSFIELD, TOWN OF

AUGUSTUS SACKET
PIONEER OF SACKET HARBOR.
BROUGHT 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, SA
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
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
VIRGINIA
WAR OF 1812
ARMED WITH 16 GUNS
Location: S. SIDE WASHINGTON ST., W. OF BROAD ST., SACKETS HARBOR
WAR OF 1812
LANDING OF BRITISH
DAYBREAK, SUNDAY
JULY 19, 1812
Location: END OF TOWN RD. ALONG LAKE SHORE, SACKET HARBOR0.

County: JEFFERSON
Town: ORLEANS, TOWN OF

SITE OF
FIRST MILL
ERECTED 1819 AT
LOG MILLS
RENAMED LAFARGEVILLE
JULY 4, 1823
Location: ON NYS 180, LAFARGEVILLE

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;
CLINTON IN REVOLUTION; CLERK,
NEW YORK STATE SENATE.
Location: ON 5TH AVE. & 25TH ST.
MARYLAND HEROES
HER 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: 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 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 36 AT NORTH END OF CALEDONIA
ERECTED 1826
BY JAJOR 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 NYS 256 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF 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 US 15 AT FOOTS CORNERS
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
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
SITE OF
A-ON-DO-WA-NUH
(BIG TREE)
SENECA INDIAN VILLAGE
Location: ON TOWN RD. ABOUT 1 1/2 MIS. N. OF CUYLERVILLE
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 EXRA 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
1826-1865
Location: ON CO. RD. LEADING TO ERIE RR. BRIDGE OVER GENESEE R. AT PORTAGE
APPROACHING
CIVIL WAR
PARADE GROUND
1826-1865
Location: AT INTERSECTION NYS 245 & CO. RD. LEADING TO ERIE RR BRIDGE OVER GENESEE R.
CIVIL WAR
PARADE GROUND
1862-1865
130TH N.Y. REGT., LATER 1ST
N.Y. DRAGOONS AND 136TH N.Y.
REGT. OF INFANTRY, 1826
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]
3 1/2 MILES
SITE OF BOYHOOD HOME
EZRA CORNELL
FOUNDER OF
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Location: ON NYS 13 AT 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

County: MADISON
Town: EATON, TOWN OF

BAPTIST CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1816. ERECTED 1819.
REPAIRED AND IMPROVED 1856.
REV. J. COLLEY, 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: 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 LEFT
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 INTERSECTIONOF 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
ERECTED IN 1814
BY GEORGE MESSINGER
Location: ON NYS 31 AT MESSINGER BAY
SITE OF
CHAMPLAIN BATTLE
1615
[ARROW]
NICHOLS POND PARK
AN ONEIDA VILLAGE SITE
6 MILES SOUTH
Location: ON US 20 AT CANASTOTA

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 MILE STRIP RD. ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CANASTOTA
TO SITE OF
CHAMPLAIN BATTLE
1615
[ARROW]
Location: ON COUNTY RD. AT PETERBORO
[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, 1839. 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 SINEON 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.
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: ON MAIN ST., CHURCHVILLE
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
NOTAVLES WERE ENTERTAINED.
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 2 1/2 MILSE 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
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
CANAJOHARIE ACADEMY, 1824-92
SUSAN B. ANTHONY TAUGHT HERE 1846-
1848. CHARLES F. WHEELOCK, PRIN.,
1880-91
Location: AT INTERSECTION CLIFF & OTSEGO STS. CANAJOHARIE
SITE OF
JOHANNES REUFF'A 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
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
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
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
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
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
REMSEN'S BUSH
DUTCH CHURCH
BUILT ABOUT 1784 ON LAND
DONATED BY L. SHULER, REV.
T. ROMEYN ONLY SETTLED PASTOR.
NEW CHURCH IN N MINAVILLE, 1808.
Location: ON COUNTY RD. ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINAVILLE
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 MINAVILLE
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
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 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
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: 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: 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
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
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
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
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 1791 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 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
SETTLED BY HENDRICK FREY 1689
BRIDGE BUILT 1803
VILLAGE CHARTERED 1867
SETTLED BY PALATINE GERMANS
1689-1867
Location: ON NYS 5 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 A
RIVER AND TURNPIKE TAVERN
Location: ON NYS 5 ABOUT 2 MILES EAST 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
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

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

County: NASSAU
Town: HEMPSTEAD, TOWN OF

"CHERRYWOOD"
HOME OF CAPT. JOHN SEAMAN
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 LAW CONVENTION
HELD NEAR THIS SPOT
IN OLD BUILDING, 1664-65
Location: W. SIDE COOPER FIELD PARKING SPACE BETWEEN FULTON & FRONT STS. INHEMPSTEAD
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 MAYH 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., 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 HAL, 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
INDIAN VILLAGE
LODGES OF MEROKE TRIBE
WERE FEW HUNDRED FEET
SOUTH. MERRICK SETTLED
IN 1643. FLAG POLE" 1862-92
Location: NYS 27, W. OF CENTRAL BLVD. IN MERRICK
SITE OF
STAGE COACH STOP
ROUTE BROOKLYN TO BABYLON;
MERRICK POST OFFICE AND
GENERALSTORE 1840-73;
"LIBERTY FLAG POLE" 1862-92
Location: BABYLON TRNPKE. S. OF MEADOWBROOK RD.
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
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 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 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: NYS 412 IN CLINTON
WANTAGH
FIRST SETTLEMENT 1644
NAMED IN MEMORY OF
GRAND SACHEM OF MONTAUKS
1651-1658
FOR TEN GENERATIONS
Location: MERRICK RD. E. AT WANTAGH CAUSEWAY
WANTAGH
FIRST SETTLEMENT 1644
NAMED IN MEMORY OF
GRAND SACHEM OF MONTAUKS
1651-1658
FOR TEN GENERATIONS
Location: WANTAGH AVE., N. OF MERRICK RD. IN WANTAGH

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
VISTS; HOME OF ROBERT TOWNSEND,
Location: RTE. 106, NO.SIDE W. MAIN ST., OYSTER BAY
YOUNGS HOME
GEROGE 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: 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
BURING THE REVOULTION.
ETHAN ALLEN CONFINED THERE.
LATER DEBTORS' PRISON
AND REGISTER'S OFFICE.
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, WHEE 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, NAIGIANAO,
"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 PROTEST NEW YORK CITY.
SITE OF BRITISH EARTHWORK
DURING THE REVOLUTION.
Location: CENTRAL PARK
FORT TRYON
NORTHERN REDOUBT OF JORT
WASHINGTON, WHERE, NOV. 16,
1776, 600 MARYLAND AND
VIRGINIA TROOPS WITHSTOOD
4600 HESSIANS FOR HOURS.
Location: FORT TRYON PARK
FORT TRYON
600 MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA
TROOPS, IN DEFENSE OF FORT
WASHINGTON, WITHSTOOD 4600
HESSIANS FOR HOURS. LATER
HAMED FOR BRITISH GEN. TRYON.
Location: FORT TRYON 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
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
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
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
CALLED SLANG BERG OR SNAKE
HILL BY DUTCH SETTLERS, FROM
RATTLESNAKE INFESTING IT.
TOWER ON SUMMIT RELIC OF OLD
VOLUMTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Location: MT. MORRIS 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
OAK VILLA
SITE OF COUNTRY SEAT OF
BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON, JUDGE
AND GENERAL, GRANDSON OF
PHILIP, LORDOF 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
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
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
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 GEROGE III TOWN
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 NORRIS' POEM, 1837
"WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE."
Location: RIVERSIDE DRIVE
THE CLAREMONT
BUILT 1785, BY NICHAEL 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
CENTR OF AMERICAN DEFENSE
OF NEW YORK, SEPT.-OCT., 17776
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.

County: NIAGARA
Town: LEWISTOWN, TOWN OF

FIVE MILE MEADOWS
IN 1813 THE BRITISH FORCES
LANDED ON THE RIVER BAND
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 COMPROLLER;
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
WYNDAM LAWNEADOWS
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, VESSELA FOR USE ON
LAKE ERIE ERE 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
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
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: NYS 12B IN ORISKANY FALLS
AUGUSTA CHURCH
ORGANIZED 2797, BY
CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY
Location: ON NYS 26 IN AUGUSTA
CASSETY HOLLOW&
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
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
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
LOCK COMPANY
ORGANIZED 2862, BY J.C.
KNOX. HIGH GRADE LOCKS
WERE MANUFACTURED HERE
FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
Location: WEST ST. IN KNOXBORO
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

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 OS
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
FROM EAST TO WEST THE
ANCIENT CARRY
FROM THE MOHAWK TO
WOOD CREEK
Location: GEORGE AND LIBERTY STS.
HERE PASSED
ANCIENT CARRY
PASSED SOUTHWARD TO
FORT NEWPORT AND
WOOD CREEK
Location: W. DOMINICK & JAY 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]
ONE BLOCK
TO SITE OF
FORT NEWPORT
AND WOOD CREEK
LANDING
Location: W. DOMINICK ST. & ARSENAL STS.
[ARROW]
LOWER LANDING
AND
ORISKANY
BATTLEFIELD
Location: NYS 69 AT ORISKANY BATTLEFIELD
[ARROW]
FORT STANWIX
AND
REVOLUTIONARY
SKIRMISHES
Location: MILL AND E, WHITESBORO STS.
[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.

County: ONEIDA
Town: ROME, TOWN OF

NORWEST 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
DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 12, 1931
BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT,
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
Location: AT 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
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 EELS
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 1902
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 2MILES 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
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 ONONDAGACO. DEC 23, 1793
Location: ON NYS 5 AND NYS 92 AT DEWITT
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
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
SITE OF
WOODRUF CABIN
PIONEER HOME OF
GURDON WOODRUF
BUILT ABOUT 1795
Location: ON NYS 80 AT 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, 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 NOIRTH SIDE OF THE
RIVER NEAR THIS SPOT IN 1807
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 SIDE, 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 & NYS 92 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 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
Location: ON NYS 92 & NYS 20 N 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
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
OLD HOTEL KEPT BY DR.
BILDAB BEACH. GEN.
LAFAYETTE STOPPED HERE
JUNE 9, 1824
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
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 ON ONONDAGA COUNTY
BY GEORGE HALL
AND THADDEUS WOOD
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
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
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
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 LINESTONE 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.
ABND 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
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
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 OFACE 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

County: ONONDAGA
Town: SALINA, TOWN OF

SALT MAKING
MANUFACTURE OF SALT WAS
BEGUN HERE IN LIVERPOOL
BY JOHN DANFORTH, BROTHER
AS 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

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: AT THE INTERSECTION OF NYS 48 AND HIAWATHA BLVD. AT SYRACUSE

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 GACINETS
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
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
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 JENINGS 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
KNOWN AS WATKINSTOWN 1789;
NAMED MIDDLETOWN 1796,
MIDWAY BETWEEN CANANDAIGUA
AND BATH; NAPLES APRIL 6, 1808
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

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" (LOUNDON 1782)
Location: ON NYS 45 ABOUT 1/2 MI. N.E. OF CRAIGSVILLETOR
SITE OF
CROMLINE HOUSE
BUILT BY DANIEL CROMLINE,
1716, NAMED GREYCOURT INN.
BEFORE 1765 WAS MAIN HOUSE
BETWEEN NEW WINDSOR AND
Location: ON NYS 94 ABOUT 1 MI. N.E. OF CRAIGSVILLETOR

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
BEGORE 1785, OWNED BY
JONAS DENTON AND RUN
BY HIS SON, THOMAS DENTON
Location: ON US 6 & NYS 17 AT CHESTER
REVOLUTIONARY
MILITIA
OF ORANGE AND ULSTER
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

NEW YORK, NEW HAMPSHIRE
AND NEW JERSEY TROOPS
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
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
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
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
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.
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
FORT GUMAER
BUILT IN FRENCH AND INDIAN
WAR, 1755-1763M 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 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
ROUTE TAKEN BY N.Y. AND
N. J. MILITIA IN PURSUIT
OF COL. BANT AFOR RAID
ON MINISINK (PORT JERVIS)
JULY 21, 1779
Location: ON US 209 ABOUT 1/2 SOUTH OF CUDDEBACKVILLE
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 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
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
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 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 NEVERSINK DR. E. OF PORT JERVIS
N. J. CLAIM LINE
STATE LINE AS CLAIMED BY
NEW JERSEY, 1686-1768,
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
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
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
HENRICK DECKER AND HIS
BROTHER, JAN SETTLED HERE
ABOUT 1698. HEADQUARTERS
OF N. J. LINE COMMISSIONERS
AND SURVEYORS, 1719
Location: ON NEVERSINK DR. E. OF PORT JERVIS
N. J. LINE WAR
CAPT. JOHANNES WESTBROOK
ON N. Y. FACTION, SETTLED
HERE ON LAND CLAIMED BY
N. Y., ABOUT 1740. WAS LATER
KIDNAPPED BY JERSEY FACTION
Location: ON US 209 ABOUT 3/4 MI. N. E. PT. 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 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 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 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 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
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
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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 JERVI

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: 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
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
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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]
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 PAR
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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]
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
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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
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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]
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

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: MONTGOMERY, TOWN OF

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

County: ORANGE
Town: NEW WINDSOR, TOWN OF

BREWSTER HOUSE
BUILT 1762, 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 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 US 9W AT SO. END CITY
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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MACHIN'S BATTERY
OF TWELVE GUNS, WAS PLACED
ON THE SOUTH END OF PLUM
POINT, TO SUPPORT THE
CHEVEAUX-DE-FRIZE TO
POL

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