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The Battle of Cobleskill (also known as the Cobleskill massacre) was a raid on the frontier settlement of Cobleskill on May 30, 1778. The battle marked the start of a phase in which Loyalists and Iroq...
Considered the last battle of the Northern theatre of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Johnstown, Oct. 25, 1781, was led by Patriot Colonel Marinus Willett. Willet and his men defeated British for...
On October 20, 1780 the army of British Colonel Sir John Johnson left the ruins of Stone Arabia behind returning to the Mohawk River moving westerly towards Canada and home. General Robert Van Renssel...
The Old Stone Fort was among three forts erected along Schoharie Creek to protect Schoharie Valley. After George Mann’s defection, only one of these forts, called Fort Defyance in today’s Middleburgh,...
Exhibits at the 1815 Federal House range from 1778 Cherry Valley massacre and siege of Fort Alden to the late 20th century. Collections include 1830s memorabilia, antique fire engines and a diorama of...
Fort Klock, a fortified stone homestead in the Mohawk River Valley of New York State, was built c.1750 by Johannes Klock. On October 19, 1780, the Battle of Klock's Field was fought just to west-north...
The Fort Plain Museum and Historical Park marks the site of Fort Plain/Rensselaer, a Revolutionary War fortress built in 1779 to protect local residents from Valley raids and evacuees from Cherry Vall...
For thousands of years the ancient trail that connects the Mohawk River and Wood Creek served as a vital link for people traveling between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Ontario. Travelers used this well...
Johnson Hall was the home of Sir William Johnson, British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and Mohawk Molly Brant. Built in 1763 in the English, Georgian-style, the mansion and dependencies were the...
This 1772 church was fortified in 1777 and attacked by the British in 1780. Now a 125-year-old museum, it is filled with amazing artifacts like a fire engine built before George Washington was born! ...