Mohawk Valley History

Writing Series

Read articles written by historians from throughout the Mohawk Valley region. Contact us if you have a story idea or local historian that you would like to see published in our writing series.

[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing front]. Dick DeMarsico, photographer, 1964. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Prints & Photographs Division

This day in history: January 15

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century America’s most compelling and effective civil rights leader, was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Harry Burrell's home at 664 East Main Street | Present-day Verizon Telephone Co.

This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 13

Built at a cost of over $100,000, the fully equipped building is dedicated for the benefit of men and women of Little Falls irrespective of creed.
Eleazer Williams: Historian, The Unquiet Rest of Eleazer Williams By Darren Bonaparte

Eleazer Williams: Historian from The Unquiet Rest of Eleazer Williams

Wampum Chronicles continues with “The Unquiet Rest of Eleazer Williams: Eleazer Williams: Historian” by historian and author, Darren Bonaparte.
Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Printer, and F. H Kaemmerer. Miss Bicycle. , ca. 1894. Paris: Boussod, Valadon & Co. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008680998/.

This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 9

This day in Mohawk Valley History from Days of Old recalled by Items Clipped from The Star Files, The Oneonta Star, January 9. 1924.
The Unquiet Rest of Eleazer Williams By Darren BonaparteThe Unquiet Rest of Eleazer Williams By Darren Bonaparte

The Unquiet Rest of Eleazer Williams

Wampum Chronicles continues with “ The Unquiet Rest of Eleazer Williams” by historian and author, Darren Bonaparte.

This day in Mohawk Valley history: December 31

Dutch explorer Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert left Fort Orange (Albany), and passed around the little falls, possibly south of Fall Hill, while visiting Iroquois villages on his way to Oneida Lake. Most likely, he was the first white person to have visited this area.
The Wampum Chronicles “Eleazer Williams: The Lost Mohawk”

Eleazer Williams: The Lost Mohawk

Wampum Chronicles continues with “Eleazer Williams: The Lost Mohawk, Have We a Bourbon Among Us?” by historian and author, Darren Bonaparte.
Photo courtesy of the Russian History MuseumPhoto courtesy of the Russian History Museum

The Russian History Museum in Jordanville, NY

Despite what the name may indicate, this site is a hidden gem encompassing not just Russia, but decades worth of immigrant culture and diaspora in the Mohawk Valley

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The Mohawk Valley is located along the Mohawk River in the ancestral lands of the Kanienʼkehá:ka’ (Mohawk) and Oneida. We offer our deepest respect to Hodinöhsö:ni’ ancestors, past and present.

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