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.
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 residents–mark your calendar for the public forum on August 27, 2024, 6:00 p.m., to share ideas on potential village projects.
Featured events happening in Frankfort during the Herkimer County Fair, Herkimer, Gloversville, Old Forge, German Flatts and Little Falls.
Awesome events happening in Cobleskill during the Schoharie County Fair, Little Falls, Gloversville, Canajoharie, Rome and Utica.
At Mohawk Valley Today, we love to take photos of our region. One local photographer, Evey, has been helping us do just that.
Featured events this weekend are happening at the Otsego County Fair, in Cooperstown, Amsterdam, Herkimer, Gloversville, and more!
Featured weekend events, July 26-28, in the Mohawk Valley are happening in Boonville, throughout Fulton and Montgomery Counties, and more!
Featured weekend events, July 19-21, in the Mohawk Valley are happening in Fort Plain, Gloversville, Ilion Canajoharie, and more!
Featured weekend events, July12-14, in the Mohawk Valley are happening in Fort Plain, Gloversville, Utica and Cooperstown.
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.
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
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
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:
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