Stone Arabia

Stone Arabia is a farming community in the Town of Palatine, north of the Mohawk River at Canajoharie. The 1734 Stone Arabia Patent deeded the land to Dutch settlers. The area has been a farming community ever since.

Stone Arabia is home to a significant community of old order Amish. 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 Revolutionary 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.