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Old Stone Fort Museum & Schoharie County Historical Society

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The Old Stone Fort Museum Complex presents three centuries of rural New York history in and among seven historic and exhibit buildings on 25 acres in the scenic Schoharie Valley. The main museum is housed in the Old Stone Fort which was built in 1772 as a High Dutch (German) Reformed Church and fortified in 1777 during the American Revolution. The stone fort was attacked by a large force of British regulars, Loyalists and Indians led by Sir John Johnson and Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant on October 17, 1780. At least three cannonballs struck the stone fort during the attack and a hole in the cornice molding left by one of those cannonballs is still visible today. That cannonball, along with the original beam it struck are on exhibit inside the museum. Following the American Revolution, the building returned to religious use until it was sold to the state in 1857 and used as an armory and militia headquarters during the Civil War. In 1889 the Schoharie County Historical Society was chartered and the old fort was opened as a museum to showcase the rich history of the Schoharie Valley and surrounding county.

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