STATE HISTORIC SITE SYSTEM OVERVIEW

NAME SIGNIFICANCE Property Name, Location/Setting Description & Designations, incl. National Historic & Date Acquired Landmark (NHL) & National Register (NRHP) Ganondagan, Victor (rural) (1972) Site of important 17th c. Seneca town and fortified granary; trails, reconstructed longhouse & other buildings; NHL, NRHP Philipse Manor Hall, Yonkers Important 17th and 18th c. Philipse family manor house; (urban) (1908) early Georgian style interiors; also served as Yonkers’ village and city halls; house & grounds; NHL, NRHP Crailo, Rensselaer (urban) (1924) 18th c. house; museum of colonial Dutch heritage in the Hudson Valley; new exhibits; NHL, NRHP Crown Point, Crown Point (rural) Remains of major 18th c. French and British forts and (1910) ancillary fortifications; also 19th c. industrial sites; 2 NHLs (both forts), NRHP Clermont, Germantown (rural) Important Livingston family estate; home of Chancellor (1962) Robert R. Livingston, national leader and steamboat collaborator; mansion, outbuildings, landscape & gardens; NHL, NRHP Johnson Hall, Johnstown (small 18th c. estate of Sir William Johnson, influential city) (1906) European settler in the Mohawk Valley and Native American liaison; main house, outbuildings & landscape; NHL, NRHP

Schuyler Mansion, Albany (urban) 18th c. home of prominent Revolutionary War Major- (1911) General Philip Schuyler and family; mansion, small ancillary building & grounds; NHL, NRHP Herkimer Home, Little Falls (rural) 18th c. home of Brigadier General Herkimer, Battle of (1913) Oriskany hero; buildings, farmland, & monument; views & canal trail access; NRHP Senate House, Kingston (urban) 18th c. house; meeting place of New York’s first state (1887) senate; house, museum building, grounds & adjacent house used for offices; NRHP Bennington Battlefield, Hoosick Site of pivotal Revolutionary War battle; landscape, (rural) (1913) monuments & buildings, including visitor center; NHL, NRHP Oriskany Battlefield, Oriskany Site of important Revolutionary War battle; (rural) (1927) monuments, landscape & small building; NHL, NRHP Fort Montgomery, Fort Site of important Revolutionary War fort and battle; Montgomery (village) (1910 acq.; some fort remains; trails & visitor center; NHL, NRHP 2006 open) Stony Point Battlefield, Stony Point Site of 18th c. fort and important Revolutionary War (suburban) (1897) battle; site of early ferry landing; home of oldest Hudson River lighthouse; museum, designed landscape, views & other buildings, NRHP Knox’s Headquarters, Vails Gate 18th c. house used as headquarters for Revolutionary (suburban) (1922) (“satellite” of War officers; the site’s Jane Colden Plant Sanctuary New Windsor Cantonment) honors America’s first female botanist; NHL, NRHP New Windsor Cantonment, Vails Site of the Continental Army’s final camp before the Gate (suburban) (1917) end of the Revolutionary War; archaeological site, parkland, some reconstructed buildings, & museum (exhibits & living history program); NRHP NAME SIGNIFICANCE Property Name, Location/Setting Description & Designations, incl. National Historic & Date Acquired Landmark (NHL) & National Register (NRHP) Washington’s Headquarters, 18th c. house that served as General Washington’s Newburgh (urban) (1850) headquarters for 16.5 months before the end of the Revolutionary War; the nation’s first publicly purchased & publicly owned historic site; house, museum building, Tower of Victory & grounds; NHL, NRHP Steuben Memorial, Remsen (rural) Part of rural retreat of Baron von Steuben, famous (1930) Revolutionary War drill master; grounds, grave, reproduction cabin; NRHP John Jay Homestead, Katonah Early 19th c. farm and retirement home of John Jay, one (suburban) (1958) of the nation’s Founding Fathers, First Chief Justice of the U.S., President of Continental Congress, New York’s second governor, and home to later Jay family members; main house, outbuildings, landscape & gardens; NHL, NRHP Lorenzo, Cazenovia (village) (1968) 19th c. estate of prominent Lincklaen family, community founders; mansion, buildings, landscape, gardens & relocated Rippleton Schoolhouse; NRHP Sackets Harbor Battlefield War of 1812 headquarters and shipyard; site of pivotal Sackets Harbor (village) (1933) 1814 battle and other military conflicts; museum complex, multiple buildings, battleground, memorial grove & nearby Union Hotel; NR Schoharie Crossing, Fort Hunter Remains of early Erie Canal features, including massive (rural) (1966) stone aqueduct, locks & 1850s canal building; visitor center, grounds & access to canal trail; NHL, NRHP Hyde Hall, Cooperstown (rural) 19th c. estate of prominent Clarke family; Philip Hooker (1963) designed mansion, outbuildings & landscape; NHL, NRHP Fort Ontario, Oswego (small city) Site of several fortifications, incl. present 19th c. fort; (1946) associated w/ key military conflicts; various fort buildings & features; NRHP John Brown Farm, Lake Placid Farmstead and grave of prominent 19th c. abolitionist; (rural) (1896) house, barn, cemetery, fields & caretaker’s house; NHL, NRHP Staatsburgh, Staatsburg (village) Late 19th c. estate of prominent Mills family; mansion (1938) on original estate grounds w/ outbuildings & views & vistas; NHL district