Museums in Schenectady County, New York - Mabee House, Schenectady Museum, Empire State Aerosciences Museum (Paperback)

Chapters: Mabee House, Schenectady Museum, Empire State Aerosciences Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dating from the 17th century, the Mabee House at the Mabee Farm Historic Site is the oldest house still standing in the Mohawk Valley. It is located in Rotterdam Junction, New York, along New York State Highway 5S, about six miles (10 km) west of the city of Schenectady. The oldest building on the property is the stone house. It was in the Mabee Family for almost three centuries. The current 9-acre (36,000 m) property, including the house, inn, slave building, a family cemetery, and more, was gifted to the Schenectady County Historical Society in 1993. An H-bent frame Dutch barn, dating from the 1760s, was acquired from the Nilson family in 1997, restored, and moved to the Mabee Farm Historic Site. Various educational programs and events are now offered to the public there. The property was first acquired and settled by Daniel Janse Van Antwerpen in 1671. He purchased the property from the Mohawks and received a grant from the English Governor Edmund Andros to establish it as a fur trading post to meet the Native American traders before they reached Schenectady. Van Antwerpen, a neighbor and mentor to Jan Pieterse Mabee in the Stockade Historic District, sold the westerly half of the farm property to Jan in 1705/6. The original deed was given to the Historical Society along with 582 other documents and over 1,000 artifacts. The other original structures on the farm are a frame pre-Erie Canal inn, in which Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler stayed in 1792 while surveying for the Western Inland Navigation and Lock Company, and a half brick and half wood probable slave house. The Farm's original barns, however, were consumed by fire...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=446839