In commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding in 1624 of the first permanent settlement of Albany, then known as Fort Orange, near the site of Fort Nassau built in 1614 and abandoned in 1617. With the establishment of . . . — — Map (db m64993) HM
After the English gained control of the Hudson Valley from the Dutch in 1674, they established a strong presence in the town they renamed Albany. Soldiers headquartered at Fort Frederick just above this intersection. They formed a masonic lodge in . . . — — Map (db m76382) HM
Upon this corner stood the house occupied by and wherein died Anneke Janse Bogardus 1663 The former owner of Trinity Church Property New York — — Map (db m147125) HM
Early Albany, the Dutch village of Beverwijck, was filled with artisans — the people who built the community and made it livable and bustling with activity. By the late 1650s, among the thousand residents who called Beverwijck home, hard . . . — — Map (db m144029) HM
The Declaration of Independence
Was first publicly read in
Albany by order of the
Committee of Safety
July 19, 1776 in front of this
City Hall, then on this site.
This memorial of the event
was placed here by the
citizens
. . . — — Map (db m116673) HM
Fort Frederick Governor Edmund Andros Made an Inspection in Albany in 1676 and Found Fort Orange, Located Near the Foot of Madison Avenue in Poor Condition. He Ordered a New Fort Constructed at a Site in the Center of State Street Just West of Lodge . . . — — Map (db m5248) HM
Facing The River On an Eminence in This Broad Street. Opposite St Peters Church Stood, Fort Frederick. Built About 1676. Removed 1789. Gallows Hill to the South. Fort Burial Ground, to the North. — — Map (db m5405) HM
Mere yards ahead of you once stood Fort Orange, the first permanent Dutch settlement in North America.
The Dutch West India Company built Fort Orange at the most strategic crossroads in the region — at the head of the trail into Mohawk . . . — — Map (db m144034) HM
Kilian Van Rensselaer the Progenitorof the Van Rensselaer family in America, a merchant of Amsterdam Holland, the original proprietor and first patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, under a grant from the Dutch government in 1629. In following . . . — — Map (db m116749) HM
On this site once stood the first Poor House in the United States.
Community care for the poor was an important feature of Dutch society, and it took root here in Albany as the city was settled in the first half of the 1600s.
. . . — — Map (db m116696) HM
In the middle of State, formerly Yonkers Street, one block below, stood the First English Church, built A.D. 1715, upon ground granted by letters patent from King George the First. It bore the name of St. Peter's Church. The parish was incorporated . . . — — Map (db m76381) HM
Why is Albany Here?
Mohawk and Mahican peoples inhabited this region for thousands of years when the Dutch ship the Half Moon dropped anchor near this spot in 1609.
At that time, the world was in the midst of a "Little Ice . . . — — Map (db m116700) HM
The
Schuyler Mansion
Erected 1762
The Home of
Major General Philip Schuyler
of the American Revolution
Patriot * Soldier * Statesman
* 1733 1804*
Acquired by the State of New York 1911
Restored and Dedicated
October . . . — — Map (db m58882) HM
There is abundant evidence of Indian occupation on Peebles and Van Schaick Islands. Hammerstones and projectile points have been discovered and suggest that early tribes lived in this area. Archeologists uncovered a number of early hearths here . . . — — Map (db m115382) HM
1735 - 1927
Van Schaick Mansion
Home Of
John G. Van Schaick
and his Wife Anna Patriot Americans
Built by Anthony Van Schaick
Son of Goosen Gerritsen original patentee
Headquarters
August 18-September 8-1777
Northern . . . — — Map (db m7250) HM
You are looking at the northern tip of Van Schaick Island. The Hudson River flows to the east, and the third and fourth branches of the Mohawk River flow around the rest of this rocky island.
Dutch merchants Philip Pietersen Schuyler and Goosen . . . — — Map (db m115371) HM
1755 Constructed as Military Road from
Albany to Lake George by Provincial
Troops from New York, New England
and New Jersey under command of
Major General William Johnson
———
Named in honor of Major General . . . — — Map (db m24514) HM
Farm of Arendt Van Curler
1643-1667. Pieter Schuyler
& Margarita Schuyler after
1672. Fortified 1747, and
Military Encampment 1750's
— — Map (db m184813) HM
The Boght
Settled On and After
1704 By The
Vischer Weaver Witbeck
Lansing Powell Runkle
Dunsbach Lieverse Staats
Roff Godfrey Van O Linde
Groesbeck Van Vranken Fero
Van De Mark Van Denburgh
Johnson Pollock Storms
Fonda and . . . — — Map (db m24731) HM
The Capital District has long been important as a trading post, military objective and governmental center. Located near the juncture of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, Albany has been the “crossroads” of the northeast since . . . — — Map (db m56854) HM
The land now occupied by the City of Watervliet is part of a tract purchased by the first Patroon, Kiliaen van Rensselaer in 1630 from the Mohican or River Indians. The tract was within a large area on the west side of the Hudson River named Wely's . . . — — Map (db m58228) HM
What was here before?
A Scottish surveyor named the Bronx neighborhood of Melrose in tribute to Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) popular work Melrose Abbey. This part of the southeastern Bronx was part of the land granted to the Morris . . . — — Map (db m241502) HM
This playground is named for the Saw Mill Creek, also known as the Mill Brook, which once flowed by this parkland. The creek originated in Gates Place in the North Bronx, ran along what is now Brook and Webster Avenues, and emptied into the Bronx . . . — — Map (db m209723) HM
On June 27, 1654, beneath a nearby oak, Thomas Pell signed a treaty with Siwanoy Sachems acquiring the Manor of Pelham and pledging “mutual peace and love be maintained.” Fire destroyed the tree in 1906. — — Map (db m192136) HM
Built by Frederick van Cortlandt MDCCXLVIII Placed in the custody of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York – MDCCXLVIII Opened by them as a public Museum MDCCCXCVII This large estate has been held continuously by the descendants of Jacobus . . . — — Map (db m237833) HM
The original church on this site was built in 1700 to house a parish organized by an act of the Provincial Assembly in 1693. Queen Anne contributed an altar in 1708. In 1763 a charter was received from King George III. The present church, designed . . . — — Map (db m52223) HM
Routes of the Armies of General John Sullivan and General James Clinton 1779
An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggressions of the English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania, extending . . . — — Map (db m93324) HM
This Boulder Marks The
Fort Stanwix Treaty Line
The deed from the Indians to the whites
was signed November,5 1768
The line was run in 1769
from the Delaware River almost due north
to the mouth of the Unadilla River
It afterward became the . . . — — Map (db m92769) HM
In Memory of "Wausaunia" Rebecca Kellogg Ashley
Born Dec. 22, 1695, in Suffield, Mass.
Died Aug 1757, Windsor N.Y.
Interpreter for the Indians at the "Old Fort," a mission station in charge of Rev. Gideon Hawley in 1748. — — Map (db m94536) HM
Hon. Theodore Medad Pomeroy (1824-1905) was born in Cayuga to Rev. Medad Pomeroy and Lillian Maxwell. His father moved the family to Elridge where Theodore studied at Munro Academy under Lemuel S. Pomeroy. A graduate of Hamilton College, Theodore . . . — — Map (db m88309) HM
Owasco Flats
Site of Indian Village.
Land Cultivated Prior to
White Settlements.
Neighboring Settlers Came
to Harvest Hay 1789 - 1790 — — Map (db m213823) HM
Waterways to the Interior
Rivers and lakes served as the superhighways of the 18th century. Many rivers and lakes in the Colony of New York either bordered New France (Canada), or connected the bordering water bodies to the . . . — — Map (db m201458) HM
Built by Celoron in 1749 when
he explored and claimed this
region for France. Followed an
Indian Trail and crossed the
highway at this point in 1753. — — Map (db m57155) HM
Built by Celoron in 1749 when he
explored and claimed this region for
France, followed an Indian Trail and
crossed the highway at this point.
In 1753 it was rebuilt by the French
for military purposes — — Map (db m57171) HM
The Delaware village near this site included 30 to 40 buildings and farm fields burned by Continental troops on August 13, 1779. — — Map (db m242356) HM
Delaware Captain who, with 20-40 Delaware men, defended their homes and land here on August 13, 1779 at the Battle of Chemung. — — Map (db m242357) HM WM
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 . . . — — Map (db m93549) HM
1763 homestead site of Jean LaFramboise first settler in Clinton County driven out by Burgoyne in 1777-Returned 1783 Estab. 1st North Country apple orchard — — Map (db m105856) HM
This was the scene in Cumberland Bay on September 11, 1814. An American Fleet under the command of U. S. Navy Lieutenant Thomas Macdonough defeated the British and changed the course of history.
Macdonough anchored his fleet and awaited the . . . — — Map (db m177282) HM
2000 acres settled in 1766 by William Gilliland (1734-1796) first named Janesborough, later Port Gilliland. A port for lake shipped goods c. 1820-1900. — — Map (db m108643) HM
Site of first home raised by a European settler in the Town of Plattsburgh and Clinton County. Erected September 10-13, 1766 by William Gilliland (1734-1796). — — Map (db m108645) HM
Since and prior to its incorporation in 1788, Clermont has played a significant role in the history of America. Clermont’s history includes: home of Robert R. Livingston, negotiator of Louisiana Purchase and a drafter of the Declaration of . . . — — Map (db m136305) HM
In 1660 Medad Pomeroy accepted tools, an anvil shaped like this replica, and land in exchange for opening a blacksmith shop in Northampton, Massachusetts. That anvil was passed through many
generations of Pomeroy blacksmiths becoming a symbol of . . . — — Map (db m135717) HM
Historic New York
Livingston Manor
In 1686 Governor Dongari confirmed the grant of a manor OK 160,000 acres of land along the Hudson River to Robert Livingston (1654-1728). Livingston as lord of the manor exercised extensive powers over land . . . — — Map (db m144665) HM
All the land visible from this point was once owned by the Livingston family. Robert Livingston, Sr., "The Founder" (1654-1728), acquired a 160,000-acre land patent in 1686. His property extended 9.5 miles along the eastern shore of the Hudson River . . . — — Map (db m149847) HM
On Hudson River and Roeliff
Jansen Kill. Built in 1699
by first lord of the manor
Robert Livingston and wife
Alida, on land grant of 1686. — — Map (db m132580) HM
Livingston a manor 1686, a
dist. 1772, included Ancram,
Taghkanick, Gallatin, Copake,
Clermont. Town 1788. In 1837
Greenport formed from Hudson — — Map (db m137804) HM
Native to the southern Appalachian region of the United States, the black locust (Robinia. pseudoacacia) was the tree of choice for Dutch colonists in the New World and prized by Indigenous peoples for its versatility and durability. The graceful . . . — — Map (db m244715) HM
Dutch boeren (farmers) began settling the fertile lowlands southeast of Albany in the mid 1600s, establishing cultural strongholds along the Hudson River and its tributaries. For more than a century after the English takeover of New Netherland in . . . — — Map (db m243811) HM
The Dutch came to the New World in the early 1600s in search of riches, and quickly saw the vast potential of the fur and timber trades. Only after the need arose for a steady food supply did they realize the agricultural
possibilities of the . . . — — Map (db m244480) HM
The Dutch who settled Kinderhook around 1660 were considered some of Europe's most accomplished planters and farmers. These first European settlers applied their agricultural and husbandry skills to the flat terraces that paralleled Kinderhook . . . — — Map (db m244774) HM
You are standing on ancestral lands of the Muh-He-Con-Neok, "the people of the waters that are never still." Called Mohicans by the English, these Algonquin-speaking peoples are now officially known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. By the . . . — — Map (db m244718) HM
Here in 1753 for two months
sat Commissioners to
divide Great Kinderhook
Patent of 1686.
Martin Van Buren later tried a
law case here. — — Map (db m205530) HM
Welcome to Columbia County Historical Society's interpretive exhibit exploring the
early heritage of the site, specifically the people, stories and events that shaped the
history and character of northern Columbia County.
The cultural heritage . . . — — Map (db m244315) HM
1709 The Home of Madam Catharyna Brett
Born in the City of New York,1687 - died in this house, 1764
Wife of Roger Brett and daughter of Francis Rombout co-patentee with Gulian Verplanck of Rombout Precinct, comprising 85,000 acres of land . . . — — Map (db m144531) HM
1754 Homesite
Of Col. James Vanderburgh 5 th Regiment D. C. Militia Friend and Host of Gen. George Washington, Visitor Here During the Revolution
— — Map (db m24881) HM
Along the Old Upper Road
The Mill House
The Mill House built in 1749 by Robert Livingston, leased to Bartholomew Noxon in 1753 to Isaac Dennis in 1781,
later owned by FDR Jr. — — Map (db m24883) HM
A cavern, with a waterfall
refuge of Sassacus, Pequot
chief, fleeing from rout of
his tribe at New Loudon, Conn.
afterward killed by Mohawks. — — Map (db m137968) HM
