Canajoharie

Canajoharie Falls

Arkell Museum and Library. Among its collection, the museum has twenty-one paintings by Winslow Homer.

Music on Main Street

"The Pot That Washes Itself", a natural wonder in Canajoharie Creek.

Fort Rensselaer, aka Van Alstyne Homestead, built 1738

The Dummy Light and historic buildings at Montgomery and Main Street.

View of "The Noses," a steep and narrow gorge hugged by the Mohawk River, I-90, NY Rtes. 5 and 5S, the Erie Canal, and the railroad mainline between NYC and Chicago.

Elves' Night Out opens the holiday season

The View from Seebers Lane

Mural depicting Arkell and Smith's flat-bottom paper bags helping the North to win the Civil War.

Viking replica ship leaves lock 14.

Farmland on the historic Clinton Rd. The fertile Mohawk Valley was once the breadbasket of America.

The sign was an I-90 landmark

The "Dummy Light," one of the few remaining in USA.

The confluence of the Mohawk River and the Canajoharie Creek made Canajoharie a natural location for the c.1771 Old Continental Mill, one of the earliest gristmills in the valley. Arkell & Smith produced the first paper bags used for storing flour and sugar in 1859. Served by the Erie Canal and the West Shore Railroad, Canajoharie was made rich and famous by Beech-Nut Nutrition, the first company to package baby food in glass jars rather than lead-soldered cans (now considered a health hazard). Canajoharie today boasts a downtown brimming with antique stores, restaurants, retail shops and the Arkell Museum and Library. Canajoharie is also home to the historic Van Alstyne House (aka Fort Rensselaer) .
Start your trip at the Regional Visitors Center at Canajoharie, located at 89 Church Street. Just around the corner, the Arkell Museum and Library houses an extensive collection of American paintings, primarily from 1860-1940, as well as historical exhibits about the history of the Mohawk River Valley and the Beech-Nut baby food company.