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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H12_st-georges-church-1762_Schenectady-NY.html
Organized 1735. Part Of
Present Church Built 1759
Used As Barracks
During Revolution
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GYO_robert-sanders-house-1750_Schenectady-NY.html
Washington Visited
Here in 1775
Later Became Schenectady
Female Academy
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GWU_commemorating-massacre_Schenectady-NY.html
Commemorating Massacre of Feb. 8-9,1690. One Hundred and Fourteen French and Ninety-Six Indians Entered During Night at North Gate, Located at this Point. Assault was Commenced Here. Seventy Houses were Burned, Sixty Persons Killed and Twenty-Seve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EH5_jan-mabee-house_Rotterdam-Junction-NY.html
Built Circa 1705Occupied For 3 CenturiesThe Farmstead Features2 Distinct StylesOf Dutch Architecture
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18Z1_general-electric-building-32_Schenectady-NY.html
Constructed in 1892 forThomas Edison's research onlighting and later forDoppler Radar developmentfor the United StatesGovernment was restored in1998 by Warren Camp withsupport from The City OfSchenectady and The New YorkState Economic DevelopmentZ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Z1_west-college_Schenectady-NY.html
Built 1804 on this site byUnion College before moveto uptown campus in 1814.It became first city hall,then Union Classical School.Union CollegeBicentennial1795-1995
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13XJ_stockade-historic-district_Schenectady-NY.html
The Seventeenth CenturyThe Schenectady Stockade is one of the oldest communities in America. Founded by the Dutch on land purchased from the Mohawk Indians in 1661, it came under English rule three years later. From the earliest days a timber stoc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13QK_site-of-schenectady_Schenectady-NY.html
The site of Schenectady was bought of the Indians by Van Curler in 1661 and a patent granted 1690. Union College was chartered in 1795. The city was incorporated in 1798 and in 1831 became the western terminus of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad. Lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13LK_schenectady_Schenectady-NY.html
Founded in the WildernessBeyond Feudal ControlInherits the Spirit of LibertyAnd Progress * Here OurForefathers EstablishedA College Free FromSectarianism * TheyHelped to Develop TheSteam Railroad and InlandWater TransportationThat Carry Throught H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13L7_ellis-hospital_Schenectady-NY.html
Built 1893 on this site,replacing 1885 Dispensary.It became City Hall Annexin 1906 as hospital movedto Nott Street location.