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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