"Brick Tavern. Invading British camped Sept. 5, 1814"

"Gen. Burgoyne passed by water in June to Saratoga - His troops, building a baggage road, laid logs over a swampy spot near here."

"Benedict Arnold, for twelve September days, opposite Chazy readied his fleet and planned his strategy for the Battle of Valcour"

"Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase & Charles Carrol of Carrolton paused near here April 26 en route to Montreal as delegates of Congress"

"Near this spot, Pierre Huet de La Valinière, Sulpician missionary, built the first Catholic church in N.E. New York, 1790"

"Matthew Sax erected the first steamboat wharf between Whitehall, NY and St. Johns, Quebec, 1808"

"1763 Homestead site of Jean La Framboise, first settler in Clinton County..."

"Near this spot Capt. de Chazy, soldier of France, was killed by Mohawk Indians, 1666"

The blue and yellow signs that mark historic sites are so familiar that sometimes they simply blend into the landscape. As local history...