GENERAL and SOCIAL HISTORY
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REFERENCE

All items in this section were contributed via email or snail mail by your fellow researchers and historians. Providing our site visitors with general county history has always been our strong point. We've posted articles from classic books and journals that should be expected on a GenWeb county site. Montgomery County is part of a region of early upstate settlement, as well as being counties that neighboring counties developed from. And so, other important resources pertaining to our area can be found on the Otsego, Schoharie, Fulton and Oneida County GenWeb sites. If you enjoy reading about the general history of theMohawk Valley, we encourage you to visit our neighbors on a regular basis to check out what they're posting.

If a resource you need/ are interested in/ have heard about isn't listed below or on the above-mentioned sites, please contact directly the experts - the Montgomery Department of History and Archives - or ask your local librarians about interlibrary loan.

Articles pertaining to the history of specific towns are located in each town's section. Please refer to our table of towns on the cover page.

Some of the books mentioned have been reprinted and are available for sale through some of the vendors listed in our commercial books section.

Montgomery County - General History

NEW RESEARCHERS - ancestors in Broadalbin, Johnstown, Stratford, Mayfield, Northampton and Oppenheim after the late 1830s? Please refer to the Fulton County NYGenWeb site.

1860 Map Showing Herkimer and Montgomery County
1865 Montgomery County Map of Towns
1885 Map of Montgomery County
1902 Map of Montgomery County
1824 Gazetteer: County Profile, Amsterdam, Anthony's Nose and Caughnawaga
1824 Gazetteer: Broadalbin and Canajoharie
1824 Gazetteer: Charleston, Florida and Palatine
1824 Gazetteer: Johnstown, Stratford and Mayfield
1824 Gazetteer: Minden, Northampton and Oppenheim
1841 Profile of Montgomery County
Early Montgomery County History
1860 French's Gazetteer of Montgomery County
1869 Profile of Montgomery County
1/20/14   1869 Business Directory of Canajoharie, Fonda & Ft. Plain
Fulton/Montgomery Farm Directory 1939
Montgomery County Post Offices in 1824, 1851 & 1911
Montgomery County Post Offices in 1870
Early Montgomery County NY Newspapers at the New York State Library
Montgomery County NYGenWeb Archives: link off site
County Connections!

Place Names

Montgomery County Place Names

Resources for Both Herkimer County and Montgomery County

NYGenWeb Archives - NY State: link off site
Genealogies Being Written in 1896
Towns Bordering Herkimer and Montgomery Counties
1850 - 1890 Population by Town
Names Index to "History of the Mohawk Valley", Vol 3
Names Index to "History of the Mohawk Valley", Vol 4
Herkimer and Montgomery County NY Biographies - listings lead to another site
Little Journeys along the Old Mohawk Turnpike - don't pass this by!
1824 Trip on the Erie Canal
Early Inns of New York State
1901 Mohawk Valley Cheese Brands
1917 Glen Telephone Directory
1911 Utica Saturday Globe Newspaper
1901 Utica Semi-Weekly Press Newspaper
Odds and Ends Bulletin Board
Early Stone Arabia
Women of the Mohawk Valley
Profiles of DAR Chapters: Amsterdam
Profiles of DAR Chapters: Caughnawaga
Profiles of DAR Chapters: Canajoharie
Herkimer Home and Guy Park Manor

Montgomery Extras!

Names Index to W. Frothingham's 1892 "History of Montgomery County"
W. Max Reid's "The Story of Old Fort Johnson"
Montgomery County Officials
Montgomery County U.S. Congressmen, 1789 - 1879
Montgomery County NY State Senators, 1848 - 1879
Montgomery County NY State Assemblymen, 1777 - 1877
A 1904 Meeting of the Mont. Co. Historical Society
Kateri Tekakwitha Links

Town Profiles and Historical Articles

Profiles and articles about individuals towns are in their respective town sections. Please refer to table of towns.

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