Fort Plain Free Library

LHR 974.74 ART. Art work of the Mohawk River and Valley: Its cities and towns. Chicago: IL: The Gravure Illustration Company, c1902. 35 cm., illus.

Scenes of the Mohawk Valley from Utica to Schenectady, published in the year 1902, with a brief history included in each of the nine volumes.

The view of Fort Plain (from Part 8) encompasses both the downtown village area and the surrounding hillsides on the east side of the Mohawk River.

“A traveler through the region of the Mohawk River, at the present time, must always be conscious of the peaceful beauty of the scenery, as he wends through the rich meadows and wooded hills of the broad valley… “ (from Introduction.)