Formerly “Aal Plaats” from Dutch meaning “place of eels.” French and Indians camped at Alplaus Creek on the eve of Schenectady Massacre 1690. — — Map (db m125364) HM
Dutch Word Meaning
Beechdale. DeGraff House
Where 40 Schenectady
Militia Fought Off French-
Indian Raiding Party
Town of
Glenville
— — Map (db m104952) HM
First Church In
Glenville
Built 1785, here stood the "Church at the Woestina" (Church in the Wilderness). Removed to Rotterdam 1812. — — Map (db m105176) HM
Here About 1790 Harmanus
Vedder Established A Ferry
Which Bore His Name Until
1835 When The Ferry Rights
Were Bought By J. Hoffman
— — Map (db m105177) HM
Site of archaic Algonkian village. Its corn pits yet remains. Through this vale ran a great and ancient path, trod by many races. — — Map (db m130339) HM
New York
Sacandaga Road
Cut Through The Primitive
Forest By Early Settlers
Along An Indian Trail
Leading To The Sacandaga
Region And Canada.
— — Map (db m104957) HM
Farm of John F. Seeley, 19th Century broom corn grower, broom manufacturer. First bridge erected here in 1855 by Volney Freeman — — Map (db m125398) HM
1748 1929
In Memory
Of The Men Who Were Killed
In This Ravine In
The Beukendaal Battle
On July 18, 1748
By The Canadian Indians
John A. Bradt
Johannes Marinus
Peter Vrooman
Daniel Van Antwerpen
Cornelis Viele, . . . — — Map (db m102619) HM
Here, about 1770, Harmanus Van Vleck cleared a tract and built his house in the dense forest, yet haunt of the wolf, bear, and panther — — Map (db m127352) HM
New York
Wolf Hollow
A Fault And Displacement
Of 1000 Feet In Earth's
Surface Rocks. Here, In
1669, The Mohawks Ambushed
Their Algonkian Invaders
— — Map (db m105189) HM