Stone Arabia
Stone Arabia is a small farming community with a rich history north of the Mohawk River at Canajoharie. Stone Arabia is in the Town of Palatine.
The history of Stone Arabia starts with the 1734 Stone Arabia Patent that deeded the land to a number of Dutch settlers. The area has been a farming community ever since.
Read Verlyn Klinkenborg's Mother Jones article, Refugees of Time: The Conscience of Place: Stone Arabia, New York
The Trinity Lutheran Church and old stone Dutch Reformed Church are shown above in pictures from the A Revelutionary Day Along The Historic Mohawk Turnpike web site
Dutch Barn Farm is in East Stone Arabia.
Willis (Skip) Barshied was a local historian who wrote many stories about the history of Stone Arabia and other local places.
Travelling on the Erie Canal
by H Inman, 1831
The Mohawk Valley at Canajoharie
by Edward Gay, 1876
Erie Canal in the Mohawk Valley
1905 Postcard