The City of Schenectady is one of the oldest cities in the United States. New York State's first Historic District -- the Stockade is located here, where you'll find homes built between 1690 - 1920.
The County is also home to many beautiful buildings including the Nott Memorial, a national historic landmark and prime example of High Victorian Gothic Architecture.
Vale Park, one of the counties many historic cemeteries is the final resting place of 57 Revolutionary and Civil War Soldiers .
In 1825 the opening of the Erie Canal changed the character of Schenectady from that of a riverfront town that served as the gateway to the west, to a leader in the Industrial Revolution.
The American Locomotive Company, one of the largest locomotive manufacturers in the world was headquartered here and Thomas Edison established his Edison Machine Works, later to become the General Electric Company, here in 1886.
The city is proud to be the home to many manufacturing and technological companies. Our cultural and historic venues, riverfront, small lakes and ponds, Erie Canal locks, open fields, old forests, along with the various architectural styles of our buildings, city neighborhoods and rural communities offer a multitude of diverse backgrounds and settings. Some breathtakingly stunning, some worn by time. Some alive and vibrant, some overgrown and abandoned.
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