Site of school since ca.
1820. Incorporated as the
Rensselaer Oswego Academy
in 1826. Name changed to
the Mexico Academy in 1845. — — Map (db m170856) HM
Ca. 1807 frame and plank house. Early church, school, and Masonic meetings were held in the house owned & built by Shubal & Lucinda Alfred. — — Map (db m170922) HM
Formerly the Carriage House for Mexico Point Club, where horses and carriages were housed to bring guests from the train station. In the 1920s-30s, when the park switched to motorized vehicles, William Casey, Columbia University professor, asked . . . — — Map (db m280050) HM
Painting completed July 10, 2004 by Artist Kenneth C. Burke, Syracuse, N.Y.
Mural Established By:
Murals In Mexico and The Greater Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Explanation of Historic Mural
Main Theme-Freedom
1. La Guerre . . . — — Map (db m281658) HM
Mexico Point Inn was one of two grand hotels built in the late 1800s, at the mouth of the Little Salmon River. (The other, Twice-Told Tales, was on the East bank of the river.) Guests came from as far as New York City, brought to the Inn in . . . — — Map (db m280325) HM
Local lore says during
Prohibition, 1920-1933, boats
from Canada smuggled liquor
here at night, signaling local
buyers by flashing lights. — — Map (db m279756) HM
Starr Clark was eulogized by Reverend M.D. Kinney as a man who believed in "impartial justice for all men, without regard to condition or color." Clark arrived in Mexico in 1832 and quickly became active in the abolitionist community. He . . . — — Map (db m75704) HM
A set of wooden carvings of people representing different time periods at Mexico Point Park
A project developed by Sandra Scott to illustrate the multifaceted history of the Park
Joseph Brant (Theyendanegea)
Joseph Brant was a Mohawk . . . — — Map (db m280528) HM
