Society Launches WWW.SchoharieHistory.Net
Early in June, your Society commenced operating an Internet Web site at WWW.SchoharieHistory.Net.
The site is organized on the concept of a local history network serving the county and the Society. In addition to providing pages for the Society, museum and our activities, SchoharieHistory.Net links to a wide variety of resources. University and other research libraries, archival sources, and the Schoharie County GenWeb's on-line texts of the classic Simms, Roscoe and Brown histories of Schoharie County are linked.
An on-site search engine allows users to search our on-line library catalogs and the 1990-1999 table of contents for the HISTORICAL REVIEW. Library records and REVIEW articles themselves are not on line but many, many surnames and subjects are indexed in the files so users should be able to determine whether a trip to the library will be worthwhile.
The site includes pages for the Society, Old Stone Fort Museum, the library, HISTORICAL REVIEW, militia company and directions to the fort, a membership application form, events and officers lists and other information.
On-line membership applications and on-line gift shop sales are under consideration.
The web site was developed and donated by Dawne Belloise of Fishhead Design in Sharon Springs and your new HISTORICAL REVIEW editor, Lester Hendrix of Schoharie. —L.E.H.
Three More Historical Markers Placed
The Schoharie County Historical Marker Committee, led by William J. Bellinger Jr. of Cobleskill, erected three more historical markers in the county this summer. The work brings to 91 the number of such markers.
On May 7 a marker was placed along Route 10 in Seward marking the site of the first St. John's Lutheran Church. The Clovercroft Historical Society donated the marker.
On May 14, a marker donated by the Schoharie County Bicentennial Committee was placed along Route 30 in Schoharie to mark the location of Gerlach's Dorf, one of the original Palatine communities, and on May 21 another Clovercroft Historical Society marker was placed at the site of the first Christian meeting house in Dorlach. That is along Route 10 in Seward. The markers read as follows:
GERLACH DORF Johann Christian Gerlach Palatine list master settled near this site in 1717 Gerlach along with most of this dorf's Palatines removed to the Mohawk Valley in 1722-1723.
SITE OF LOG CABIN First Christian meeting place in the settlement of Dorlach. Erected circa 1760, through the Lutheran ministries of Rev. Peter N. Somers.
SITE OF the 1st. St. John's Lutheran Church built 1787, in the settlement of Dorlach. Rev. Henry Moeller the first resident minister in 1806, was a chaplain in Washington's army. Church cemetery.
The Fall 1999 HISTORICAL REVIEW reported extensively on the project to replace lost markers and place new ones. The article recorded the texts of 11 new markers and 14 replacement markers. Mr. Bellinger hopes to erect two more markers, one at the first Methodist church in Hyndsville and the other at the Bull's Head Inn in Cobleskill. —L.E.H.