New York: Historic New York
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1FS5_steuben-memorial_Frankfort-NY.html
(Three miles northwest of Remsen, Oneida County)Home and grave of Baron Frederick William von Steuben(1730-1794)Drillmaster of the American Revolution Arriving at Valley Forge in February, 1778, this German-born officer found "an army o…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1H50_war-of-1812-gravesites_Colton-NY.html
Two War of 1812 soldiers while on a march from Plattsburgh to Sackets Harbor, died and are buried on this historic spot.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1I4I_the-empire-state_Massena-NY.html
Following exploration by Champlain and Hudson in 1609, the first permanent settlement began in the Hudson Valley in 1624. Dutch rule was displaced in 1664 by the English who named New York after the King's brother, the Duke of York and Albany. Conflict betw…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1I5A_st-lawrence-river-and-massena_Massena-NY.html
The St. Lawrence River from earliest times has provided a direct route for travel and transportation between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. After the Revolution much of the land in northern New York came into the hands of Alexander Macomb and other…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1KP5_the-erie-canal_Weedsport-NY.html
Construction of the Erie Canal was hailed as the greatest engineering accomplishment to that time. Under the leadership of Governor De Witt Clinton, construction began July 4, 1817. With little technical knowledge, thousands of workers surveyed, blasted and…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1MI8_upper-cattaraugus-valley_Chaffee-NY.html
Erie Indians were the first inhabitants of this region. In 1654, they were driven out by the Senecas who occupied several sites along the banks of Cattaraugus Creek. The Cattaraugus, the principal stream of many that divide the Cattaraugus Hills, flows west…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1NAE_site-of-the-groveland-shaker-community_Mount-Morris-NY.html
On this site the eighteenth and last Shaker community in America was founded in 1836 by members of the Sodus Bay Shaker community. The Shakers, formerly known as the United States Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, were a religious communal …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1NDU_the-st-lawrence-plain_De-Kalb-Junction-NY.html
The gently rolling country between the St. Lawrence River and the Adirondack Mountains is cut by the St. Regis, Raquette, Grass and Oswegatchie Rivers. Tumbling from the slopes of the Adirondacks, these swift streams flow in westerly and northerly direction…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1QNY_the-lake-plain_Albion-NY.html
The Neutral Nation of Indians, an Iroquoian group affiliated with the Eries, were early inhabitants of this area. About 1650 they were conquered by the Senecas of the Five Nations Confederacy. French explorers and traders crossed this area and English exped…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1RG9_unadilla-region_Afton-NY.html
Indians living in the valleys of the Unadilla and Susquehanna Rivers played an important role in the region's early history. Fur traders from Albany and the Mohawk Valley reached out to Oquaga (now Windsor), and a mission to the Indians was established ther…