05Apr
First School
FIRST SCHOOL Town's first school built on this site on land given by Jonathan Anderson. Earliest district in town settled in 1787. Located on South Shore Road in Edinburg.
05Apr
Anderson Cemetery
ANDERSON CEMETERY: Location: right next to the I-Go-Inn on South Shore Road.
05Apr
Shew House
SHEW HOUSE BUILT 1784 BY GODFREY SHEW AND HIS SONS JOHN, STEPHEN AND JACOB AFTER THEIR RETURN FROM CANADA AS PRISONERS OF COL. ROSS ON JUNE 3, 1778 This old home in the hamlet of Fish House dates back to 1784 and is considered one of the oldest in the town of Northampton. The original [...]
05Apr
The St. John House
This is one of the older homes, in the Fish House Settlement, still existing today Among other things, Alexander St. John was a surveyor and engineer. He is credited by some historians as having the village and town of St. Johnsville named after him. He became one of the town's leading citizens and is buried [...]
05Apr
Shew’s Hill
ON JUNE 3, 1778 GODFREY SHEW STATIONED HIS SON JACOB TO REPORT APPROACH TORY AND INDIAN RAIDERS UNDER CO. ROSS. LATER FAMILY MADE PRISONERS. IF you read the exploits of the Shew family of old Fish House, they mention a high rise of ground overlooking the Sacandaga River; it became a good location to see [...]
30Dec
Godfrey Shew Original Home Site
Godfrey Shew House is a historic home located at Fish House in Fulton County, New York. It was built in 1784 and is a 2-story, five-bay-wide and two-bay-deep, timber-frame, gable-roofed residence in the Federal style.
30Dec
Old Covered Bridge at Fish House
This old covered bridge passed way during the construction of the present day Great Sacandaga Lake It connected this portion of the Town of Northampton with the rest of the northern town.
30Dec
Sir William Johnson’s Fish House Lodge
This historic roadside marker directs you to the site of the hunting and fishing retreat which Sir William had built on the old Sacandaga River as early as 1762 and was known as his “Fish House”.
30Dec
Marvin House
The old Marvin Home was one of the community’s older homes. David Marvin was a Revolutionary War soldier and one of the early settlers of old Fish House; after the war he settled here from Connecticut
30Dec
Hans Creek
This marker also designates a place in the northern portion of the Town of Broadalbin which is one of the tributaries emptying into the Great Sacandaga Lake
