| New York (Washington County), Argyle — Allen Cabin |
| | The log cabin where all six of the Allen family and three slaves were killed, July 26,1777 by Leloup and his Indians was north of here. — Map (db m58513) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Argyle — Kilmer Mill |
| | Built short distance West of here before Revolution. First settlement in Argyle Village and first grist mill within forty miles. — Map (db m58533) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Argyle — South Argyle United Presbyterian Church 1785 - 1935 |
| | First Pastor Rev. Thomas Beveredge
First Elders John McNeil John McKnight William Reid
First Trustees Casper Bain William Robertson Robert Robertson David McKnight John Reid John Harsha
Building is situated on the 160 acres deeded to the above named trustees from the original 500 acres granted for a Glebe in the Patent of 47,450 acres from King George III — Map (db m58529) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Argyle — The Family of John Allen |
| | Nine persons
were massacred about 100 yards east of here by a band of Indians attached to Burgoyne's army July 25,1777. The Cairn marks their burial place. — Map (db m58512) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Buskirk — Buskirk's Red Covered Bridge |
| |
Buskirk's Red
Covered Bridge
Rehabilitated in 2004.Built
Circa 1850 to Replace A
Previous Bridge Built in 1804.
This Crossing Served The
Great Northern Turnpike
Beginning In 1799.
— Map (db m13751) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Cambridge — Checkered House |
| | Site of the Checkered House built by James Cowden 1765.
Baum's headquarters Aug. 13,1777
Continental hospital Aug.18,1777 — Map (db m58514) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Cambridge — Continental Road Di- On- On- Da- Wa- Ha Trail |
| | Col. Baum's route from Ft. Miller to Bennington August 14,1777 — Map (db m58515) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Cambridge — First Church in Cambridge Patent |
| | Site of first church in Cambridge Patent
Building started 1775 interrupted by Revolution
Completed 1783 — Map (db m58517) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Cambridge — Great Northern War Trail c. 1650-1700 |
| | Over which Indians led New England captives to Canada during Indian Wars. — Map (db m58516) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Cambridge — Old Turnpike Grave- Yard 1756 |
| | Buried here are 40 Revolutionary soldiers and veterans of other wars. — Map (db m58518) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Cambridge — Site of Skirmish |
| | Site of Skirmish between Hessian troops and Cambridge settlers. Several patriots were taken prisoners, Aug. 15, 1777 — Map (db m58521) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Cambridge — Whiteside Church |
| | Erected 1800 by community. Whiteside families Large Conors. Rebuilt 1825 — Map (db m58526) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Eagle Bridge — Homestead of Grandma Moses |
| |
Homestead of
Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
1860 - 1961
World Renowned Painter
of Rural Life
— Map (db m37188) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Easton — Friends Log Meeting House |
| | Surrounded by Burgoyne's Indian allies in 1777 but finding Friends unarmed stacked arms and attended meeting peaceably. — Map (db m58511) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Ann — Fort Anne First Baptist Church |
| | Site of the First Baptist Church of Fort Anne Village. Erected 1874, destroyed by fire 1955. This fragment of the bell which rang also as the town clock bears date of purchase. — Map (db m19854) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Ann — Great Indian Warpath |
| | Lake Champlain to Hudson River
1609 - 1777 — Map (db m58177) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Ann — Old Powder House Fort Ann |
| | Old Powder House used during French and Indian Wars and Revolutionary War. — Map (db m58088) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Anne — Fort Anne "Gateway to North" |
| | Here stood five forts 1680 – 1777 on route between Lake Champlain & Hudson River. — Map (db m59959) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Anne — Half-Way Creek |
| | Used in French and Indian & Revolutionary Wars for transport of supplies. — Map (db m58086) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Anne — Old Well |
| | Used in Fort site. Built before the Revolutionary War by Queen Anne of England. — Map (db m58087) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Duer House |
| | Ό M. → Duer House British Headquarters Aug. 14 – Sept. 10, 1777 — Map (db m56876) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Fort Edward 1755 |
| | Great Carrying Place Fort Nicholson 1709 Fort Lydius 1731 Fort Lyman 1755 — Map (db m9270) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Fort Miller |
| | On the opposite side of the river Fort Miller built during French and Indian War. — Map (db m9297) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — NY-11½ — Gen. Henry Knox Trail |
| | Through this place passed Gen. Henry Knox in the winter of 1775-1776 to deliver to Gen. George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston Erected by The State of New York during the sesquicentennial of the American Revolution — Map (db m9785) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — NY-11 — Gen. Henry Knox Trail |
| | Through this place passed Gen. Henry Knox in the winter of 1775-1776 to deliver to Gen. George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston Erected by The State of New York during the sesquicentennial of the American Revolution — Map (db m56843) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Gen. Schuyler's Intrenchments |
| | Headquarters of American Army after evacuation of Fort Edward July 1777 — Map (db m58077) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Gen. Washington |
| | In the summer of 1783. General George Washington was in the township of Kingsbury, while on a tour of northern battlefields. — Map (db m9342) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Gen. Washington |
| | In the summer of 1783, General George Washington was a guest here at Sherwoods House or Tavern, while on a tour of area battlefields. — Map (db m9348) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Jane McCrea |
| | Killed on 27 July 1777, a short distance to the south of this spot. Her death helped to defeat General Burgoyne at Saratoga. — Map (db m9235) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Jane McCrea |
| | ← Original burial place of Jane McCrea July 28, 1777 — Map (db m19743) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Judge William Duer |
| | → Site of home Judge William Duer statesman and patriot — Map (db m56878) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Major Robert Rogers |
| | Founder and Commanding Officer of Rogers' Rangers in the French and Indian War.
Author, in October of 1757 on this site, of the Rules of Ranging, which have been in use by the U.S. Army since that time.
Rogers' Rangers Standing Orders
1. Don't forget nothing.
2. Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning.
3. When you're on the march, act the way you would if you was sneaking . . . — Map (db m18108) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Memorial to Jane McCrea |
| | Memorial to Jane McCrea massacred near this spot by the Indians July 27, 1777. Erected by the Jane McCrea Chapter, D.A.R. 1901 — Map (db m9237) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Northeast Bastion |
| | Near here was Northeast Bastion part of outworks Fort Edward 1755 — Map (db m9271) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Old Fort Edward |
| | This boulder marks the site of Old Fort Edward 1755 – 1780 Erected by the Jane McCrea Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1914 — Map (db m9266) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Old Fort House Museum |
| | This 1772 residence hosted Generals Schuyler, Washington, and Arnold. It also served as a courthouse and a tavern. Revolutionary War Heritage Trail — Map (db m11762) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Old Military Road |
| | Below here Old Military Road ran diagonally up this hill 1755 – 1777 — Map (db m15693) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Old Moat |
| | Remains of Old Moat part of outworks Fort Edward 1755 — Map (db m9346) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Progenitors of Independence |
| | This monument is dedicated to the members of the British expeditionary forces stationed at Fort Edward and Rogers Island during the French and Indian Wars. 1755 - 1763
-Progenitors of Independence- — Map (db m17793) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Rogers Island |
| | . . . — Map (db m17776) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Sixteen Soldiers |
| | This monument is erected to commemorate the sacrifice of the lives of Sixteen Soldiers who were massacred July, 1758, by a band of hostile Indians in the park which was then only a path in the wilderness. The sixteen soldiers, with a teamster, a certain John Quackendoss of Albany, N.Y. who through the intervention of an Indian Squaw escaped the cruel death, were securely bound and seated on the trunk of a fallen tree. In this helpless condition they were put to death by one of the Indians armed . . . — Map (db m9341) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — Smyth House |
| | Erected by Patrick Smyth about 1767 of timber taken from Fort Edward. The first tavern and scene of the first court in Charlotte County. Headquarters of Schuyler – Arnold – Burgoyne – Stark – 1777. Oldest house in Washington County Erected by the state of New York 1928 — Map (db m9357) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — The Grave of Duncan Campbell & Jane McCrea |
| | The Grave of Duncan Campbell & Jane McCrea are just within and to the left of this gateway. — Map (db m9343) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — The Island ← |
| | Barracks Hospital Brick – kiln 1755 — Map (db m19856) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Fort Edward — The Patt Smyth House |
| | Fort Edward lay on the shipping route between New York City and Canada via the Hudson River and Lakes George and Champlain. The British colonial government fortified it in 1755 during the French and Indian War. Patt Smyth came to oversee the fort in 1764, and when it was dismantled in 1772-1773, he salvaged lumber to build this fine house. In 1777, the British planned to sever New York from New England by occupying the Hudson Valley. When the Continental troops garrisoned Fort Edward in June, . . . — Map (db m11764) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Greenwich — Breastworks of General Fellows |
| | Facing Burgoyne's camp across the River — Map (db m58510) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Greenwich — British Army Camp |
| | Site of British Army camp before crossing Hudson. Later occupied by General Fellows' Continentals — Map (db m58082) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Greenwich — Captain Furnival's Battery |
| | Site of Captain Furnival's Battery
Commanding Marshall house and river crossing.
N.Y. State Historical marker 1927 — Map (db m58084) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Greenwich — Gen. Washington |
| | In the summer of 1783, General George Washington was in the township of Greenwich, while on a tour of northern battlefields. — Map (db m19742) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Greenwich — Position of Burgoyne's Bridge |
| | Position of Burgoyne's bridge of boats on which he crossed the Hudson — Map (db m58081) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Greenwich — World War I and II and Korean Conflict Memorial |
| | In honor of the men and women of Thompson who served their country in two World Wars
(List of people that served)
Korean Conflict
(List of people that served) — Map (db m58085) WM |
| New York (Washington County), Hartford — Civil War Enlistment Center |
| | 65 of 134 Civil War Veterans enlisted here in Co. E 123 Regt. N.Y.S. Vol.
Aug. 22, 1862 — Map (db m63515) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hartford — Clinton Gift |
| | Gov. Clinton gave this land to Baptist Society, 1798.
Log Meeting House, 1788, stood 50 feet to the south, church erected here, 1805. — Map (db m63514) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hartford — Site of Old Mills |
| | I. Norton built dam 1814
Downs Clothing Works
Woodell Starch Mill 1866
Daicy Cabinet Works 1870
Higby Tannery below 1818 — Map (db m61515) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hudson Falls — Four Mile Post |
| | A small fort was built near here in the 1750's, known as the Four Mile Post as it was four miles from Fort Edward. — Map (db m63513) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hudson Falls — NY-10 — Gen. Henry Knox Trail |
| | Through this place passed Gen. Henry Knox in the winter of 1775-1776 to deliver to Gen. George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston Erected by The State of New York during the sesquicentennial of the American Revolution — Map (db m9783) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hudson Falls — Gov. N. Pitcher |
| | Home site of New York State Gov. Nathaniel Pitcher 1828 Town Supervisor 1806 – 1810 Born 1777. Died 1838. — Map (db m15688) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hudson Falls — Headquarters |
| | Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne
used this house as British
army headquarters, July
1777, before his surrender
at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777. — Map (db m18105) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hudson Falls — Hon. Silas Wright |
| | During his youth Silas Wright came to Sandy Hill, now Hudson Falls, to learn to be a lawyer, serving his clerkship in this small building. This was the law office of Hon. Henry C. Martindale, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas and a Member of Congress. Gov. Wright studied the law under the guidance of Judge Martindale and did become a lawyer. He was born in 1795 and died in 1847, at his home in Canton, St. Lawrence County. In addition to being governor he served in the United States Senate. — Map (db m56907) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hudson Falls — Sandy Hill 1810 - 1910 |
| | Name of this village until changed to Hudson Falls, 1910. The name Sandy Hill first used ca. 1792. — Map (db m16602) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hudson Falls — Washington County Civil War Monument |
| | This monument is presented by Dr. Erskine G. Clark to the Village of Sandy HillDedicated to the honor and patriotism of the soldiers of Washington County who served in our war to suppress the southern rebellion of 1861, waged against the life of the nation.--------------- Dedicated June 30, 1887 [ Left Marker : ] Lafayette In recognition of whose service to our country this tablet is placed in the park where he was welcomed June 1825 ---------- Jane McCrea Chapter D.A.R. 1927 [ . . . — Map (db m56913) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Hudson Falls — World War II Memorial |
| | Dedicated in honor of those who served their country during World War II from the Town of Kingsbury and the Village of Hudson Falls and in reverent memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice that we the living might remain free. December 7, 1941 September 2, 1945 — Map (db m56910) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Kingsbury — Burgoyne's Army |
| | Marched through this hamlet in July 1777 to a camp site at the Jones farm 3 miles to the west of the park. — Map (db m58079) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Kingsbury — Kingsbury Street |
| | The first settler of this neighborhood was Oliver Colvin, who came here in 1766, and was the second pioneer of the Town of Kingsbury. At one time there were two churches, a school, Post Office, several taverns, hotels, stores, and mills located in this hamlet. — Map (db m61653) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Kingsbury — Patten's Mills Cemetery or Harris Cemetery |
| | The first burial here is believed to be John Jones, who was the first settler of the Town of Kingsbury to pass away here, 1772. There are veterans of the Revolutionary War and Civil War, buried in this cemetery.
Maintained by the Town of Kingsbury.
Cemetery open dawn to dusk — Map (db m61655) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Kingsbury — Smith's Basin |
| | Named for Ezekiel Smith, c. 1825. He and his brother Israel operated a store and tavern in the hamlet. At one time there were several hotels, stores, a school, Post Office, a church and railroad station in the neighborhood. There was a canal boat basin here, where lime was loaded for shipment to New York City. — Map (db m61659) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Kingsbury — Underground Railway Marker |
| | This stone chair was placed a few yards from this spot in 1841. Who placed it here and why is unknown. However, it may have been a guide post for the Underground Railway. The drawings below were carved on the back of the chair. — Map (db m61649) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Kingsbury — Vaughn's Corners |
| | Named for William Vaughn, who opened a store and tavern at the corners around 1800. Until the late 1830's a Post Office was located here. A masonic Lodge was held at the corners, starting in 1820, in the home of Salmasius Bardwell. — Map (db m61658) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Salem — Home and Laboratory of Dr. Asa Fitch, Jr. 1809-1879 |
| | First State entomologist, 1854-71. Pioneer in study of crop pests and their control. — Map (db m62954) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Salem — Lest We Forget |
| | 1776-1918
Dedicated to the memory of all men of Salem New York who in devoted patriotism gave their total service to their country during time of war and to those who made the supreme sacrifice for liberty and humanity. — Map (db m58524) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Salem — Old White Church |
| | United Presbyterian Church
organized by Ballibay Ireland July 23,1751
Rev Thomas Clark M.D. and his congregation immigrated to America in 1764 and settled in Salem and erected a log church in 1766 the first Protestant church in New York State north of Albany. This third building was erected in 1797 on Glebe land — Map (db m58523) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Salem — Revolutionary Cemetery |
| | More Revolutionary soldiers are buried here than in any other cemetery in Washington County — Map (db m58530) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Salem — Rexleigh Covered Bridge |
| |
Rehabilitated in 2007. The Rexleigh bridge is a Howe Truss with cast iron shoes built in 1874. This is the third bridge on this site. — Map (db m58531) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Salem — The White Creek Fort |
| | Erected as a Presbyterian Church in 1774 and converted to a fort early in the Revolution,
Garrisoned by Charlotte County Militia under command of Col Joseph McCracken, it was starting point of many raids on the supply lines of Gen. Burgoyne during the invasion from the north.
Destroyed by Tories and British in 1777. — Map (db m58527) HM |
| New York (Washington County), South Hartford — Brown's Tavern |
| | Erected 1802 by Caleb Brown — Map (db m61514) HM |
| New York (Washington County), Whitehall — William Miller Chapel |
| | Built in 1848 by Adventist founder William Miller.
This chapel was placed on National Register, ca. 1975 — Map (db m58227) HM |
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