A man came rushing from a house,
Saying, "Snub up your boat I pray,
Snub up your boat, snub up, alas,
Snub up while yet you may."
Mark Twain's satirical poem "The
Aged Pilot Man” highlights
characteristic of canal life as . . . — — Map (db m141379) HM
Front 1884 - Original School was built on this land donated by John H. Starin.
1899 -First Class new Regents system.
Jan 8, 1923 - Destroyed by fire. Back
1924 - School built to replace original destroyed by fire.
1953 . . . — — Map (db m131480) HM
General Nicholas Herkimer (1728–1777), one of the first American-born generation of the Palatine Germans who settled the Mohawk Valley, leading farmer-trader of
the Valley, and hero of the Battle of Oriskany, built
Herkimer Home in . . . — — Map (db m4269) HM
Canal buoy boats were originally constructed in
the 1920s and 1930s to service buoys on the Barge
Canal. Since the Barge Canal followed natural rivers
and lakes for much of its length, as opposed to the
mule-drawn dug canal, navigation buoys . . . — — Map (db m141373) HM
Sir William Johnson (1715-1774), Indian trader, statesman, diplomat and Colonial Empire Builder, in 1763 built Johnson Hall, the center of his estate and the scene of many Indian conferences.
Coming from Ireland in 1738, Johnson traded with the . . . — — Map (db m64987) HM
The Mohawk Valley was a principal pass to the interior between the Adirondack Mountains and the Allegheny Plateau. Here dwelt the Mohawks, one of the Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy who barred the white man's advance westward. In the seventeenth . . . — — Map (db m64988) HM
The Mohawk Valley was a principal pass to the interior between the Adirondack Mountains and the Allegheny Plateau. Here dwelt the Mohawks, one of the Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy who barred the white man's advance westward. In the . . . — — Map (db m75968) HM
Site of
Sammons Home
Burned During Revolution And Sampson Sammons and His Three Sons Taken Prisoners. Jacob And Frederick Were Taken To Canada But Escaped After Much Suffering — — Map (db m67056) HM
Historic New York
Site of The Battle of Oriskany,
August 6, 1777
Oriskany Battlefield
(Eight miles west of Utica)
The Battle of Oriskany was one of the bloodies
engagements of the American Revolution. British and
Indians here ambushed . . . — — Map (db m4267) HM
Locks Open the Way
The Erie Canal originally scaled some 700 feet in elevation changes along its route from Rome, New York to Buffalo. This was accomplished by building a series of 83 locks to accomodate changes in water levels. These . . . — — Map (db m129907) HM
By the Numbers
5,900 Square Miles
Six thriving Counties
More Than 500,000 Residents
Homeland of the Iroquois
For centuries, the ancestral homeland of the Native American Iroquois included the Mohawk Valley region. French, . . . — — Map (db m129846) HM
The Burning of the Valleys
Aimed at disrupting supply lines and devastating the crops that fed troops during the
Revolutionary War, the Burning of the Valleys was a ruthless campaign waged against civilians
and led by the British Army, . . . — — Map (db m129849) HM
Feeding an Army
A plentiful source of wheat and dairy, the Mohawk and Schoharie Valleys have long been vital farmlands. They were the targets for the British during the revolutionary War because they were important sources of food for the . . . — — Map (db m129909) HM
The Valley and the War
The Mohawk Valley region played an important
role during the Revolutionary War, which lasted
from 1775 through 1783. Given the significance
of the Mohawk Valley and the Hudson River
in connecting New
England . . . — — Map (db m139814) HM
Dedicated to the sons and daughters of the Town of Glen who served their country in World War II and the Korean Conflict.
(Names not transcribed) — — Map (db m131443) WM
