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Featured Mohawk Valley Farm: Lyons Family Homestead

Lyons Family Homestead‘s self-serve farm store filled with fresh, local produce along with plenty of fun experiences to enjoy on the farm.

Fort Plain, NY. Photo by mobile photographer, Evey S.

Village of Fort Plain: Mark your calendars!

Fort Plain residents–mark your calendar for the public forum on August 27, 2024, 6:00 p.m., to share ideas on potential village projects.

August 16-18 Weekend Events

Mohawk Valley Featured Weekend Events: August 16-18

Featured events happening in Frankfort during the Herkimer County Fair, Herkimer, Gloversville, Old Forge, German Flatts and Little Falls.

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Mohawk Valley Featured Weekend Events: August 9-11

Awesome events happening in Cobleskill during the Schoharie County Fair, Little Falls, Gloversville, Canajoharie, Rome and Utica.

This mobile photographer really captures the beauty of the Mohawk Valley

At Mohawk Valley Today, we love to take photos of our region. One local photographer, Evey, has been helping us do just that.

Mohawk Valley Featured Weekend Events: August 2-4

Featured events this weekend are happening at the Otsego County Fair, in Cooperstown, Amsterdam, Herkimer, Gloversville, and more!

Mohawk Valley Featured Weekend Events: July 26-28

Featured weekend events, July 26-28, in the Mohawk Valley are happening in Boonville, throughout Fulton and Montgomery Counties, and more!

Mohawk Valley Featured Weekend Events: July 19-21

Featured weekend events, July 19-21, in the Mohawk Valley are happening in Fort Plain, Gloversville, Ilion Canajoharie, and more!

Mohawk Valley Featured Weekend Events: July 12-14

Featured weekend events, July12-14, in the Mohawk Valley are happening in Fort Plain, Gloversville, Utica and Cooperstown.

Cycle the Erie Canal Riders in the Mohawk Valley

Cycle the Erie Canal is an enjoyable ride along the canalway and on days 6 and 7, riders travel through the scenic and historic Mohawk Valley.

Tag Archive for: Fort Plain NY

Revolutionary War Conference

Revolutionary War Conference

The Revolutionary War Conference 250 in the Mohawk ValleyMay 29-June 1, 2025 at the Fulton-Montgomery Community College’s Visual Arts & Communications Building Theater, located at  2805 NY-67, Johnstown, NY.

Conference Lodging:

Please Click Here for the 2025 Hotel-Lodging Information

Lunch: Provided on Saturday and Sponsored by Lorna Hainesworth, Ambassador and National Traveler and Fort Plain Museum Board of Trustees Member

Conference Location: The Fulton-Montgomery Community College’s Theater – The Visual Arts & Communications Building (Campus Map Building #2) – 2805 NY-67, Johnstown, NY 12095 – Please Park in Lots 5, 4 or Visitor’s Lot – Please Click Here – FMCC Campus Map

Speakers and Topics Include:

Pulitzer Prize Winner Rick Atkinson – The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

Major General Jason Q. Bohm USMC – 250th United States Marine Corp

Alexander R. Cain – We Stood Our Ground: 250th of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775

Abby Chandler – Choosing Sides: North Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion and the American Revolution

Gary Ecelbarger – The Mammoth of Monmouth: George Washington’s 1778 Campaign in New Jersey

Michael P. Gabriel – Richard Montgomery and the Other Invasion of Canada

Shirley L. Green – Integrating Enslaved and Free: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary Black Regiment

Don N. Hagist – State of British Army in 1775

Patrick H. Hannum – Great Bridge and Kemps Landing, Virginia 1775

Edward G. Lengel – 250th General George Washington and the Continental Army

Wayne Lenig – Committee of Safety and the Mohawk Valley in 1775

James Kirby Martin – Setting the Stage for Bloody Warfare in the Mohawk Valley: Neutrality versus Partisan Combat in 1775

James L. Nelson – Bunker Hill: The First Battle of the American Revolution

Jane Simpson, U.E. – Twice Refugees: A Huguenot Family’s Shades of Allegiance in Dutchess and Westchester County New York, during the American Revolution

William P. Tatum III, Ph.D. – “To Quell, Suppress, and Bring Them to Reason by Force:” Combatting the Loyalist Threat in New York during 1775

Bruce M. Venter – “It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones”: Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys Take Fort Ticonderoga

Bus Tour – We Stood Our Ground: The Battles of Lexington & Concord, April 19, 1775 – Led by Alexander R. Cain – Thursday, May 29, 2025

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Holding Down the Fort

Holding Down the Fort will be back in 2025 – August 2, 2025 10 am to 6 pm.

There will be a commemoration to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice on August 2, 1780 during the Raid of Canajohary.

Confirmed for 2025:

  • First Tryon County Militia
  • Tryon Inn Chicken BBQ
  • Eisenadler Brew House
  • Cannon Demonstrations
  • Historian Presentations
  • 18th Century Military/Civilian Life Demonstrations

Free Admission for Women (Honor the Women who took up arms in the Fort during the Raid)

Tours of Revolutionary War Fort Plain/Rensselaer

The Museum is located at 389 Canal Street, Fort Plain, NY 13339