Canajoharie and Palatine Bridge welcome you
to our historic villages in the Mohawk River Valley

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We quarried the limestone that built the Brooklyn Bridge. We are the home of the flat-bottom paper bag, the railroad sleeping car, Beech-Nut Baby Food, Joseph and Molly Brant. At the time of the Revolutionary War we were the Frontier and theatre of war between British, Tories, Iroquois and Patriots. The packet boats on the Erie Canal once pulled up to our doors. Today, the Canajoharie Public Library and Art Gallery houses a premier private collection of American painting including twenty-one Winslow Homers. We are in the rolling farmland of central New York's "Leatherstocking Region", an area of beautiful views, forty minutes from Cooperstown, an hour from the Adirondacks, and an hour from the Catskills.

 

"Ca-na-jo-ha-rie" is a Mohawk word meaning "the pot that washes itself", after our natural wonder - a perfect circle cut in stone by the rushing waters in Canajoharie Gorge.

The first settler west of Schenectady in the Mohawk Valley built a homestead in what was later called Palatine Bridge, after the German settlers from the Palatinate near the Rhine River.

The limestone gazebo built by palace car inventor Webster Wagner is a Route 5 landmark.

One of the nation's few remaining "dummy lights" watches traffic on Church Street in Canajoharie.