Fort Plain Nelliston History covers the period from 1580, when there were nine Mohawk Indian villages within four air miles of the Fort Plain - Nelliston area, through the Revolutionary War, the booming Erie Canal era, the days of the Clinton Liberal Institute, to 1948, the year of this book’s publication.

Other books of local history in our collection written by Nelson Greene include the History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925; the History of the Valley of the Hudson, River of Destiny, 1609-1930; The Old Mohawk Turnpike Book; and The Story of Old Fort Plain and the Middle Mohawk Valley.