Various locations around Vernon could be considered historically important. Here are the sites that are registered by New York State or the National Park Service as historic landmarks.
National Register of Historic Places
Vernon Center Green Historic District (more)
- Vernon Center Green (also known as Maple Park). Laid out in 1798 as a New England style green [more]
- The Gazebo, a late Victorian Gazebo built in the middle of the green, built 1902, typical of New England style park architecture. [more]
- Vernon Center Presbyterian Church (now known as This Old Church) [more]
- Parkside Methodist Church and Parsonage of Vernon Center [more]
Vernon Methodist Church (more)
Historic Markers
MISSION CHURCH
MISSION CHURCH OF ONEIDAS INDIANS. BUILT 1818
AT ONEIDA CASTLE BY REV. ELEAZER
WILLIAMS. MOVED HERE IN 1842
BY UNITARIANS. BECAME VERNON
TOWN HALL IN 1892
STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 1947
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SKENANDOAH BOULDER
“This marks the site of the last home of Skenandoah, chief of the Oneidas. “The white man’s friend”. Here he entertained Governor Dewitt Clinton 1810, and many other distinguished guests, and here he died in 1816, aged 110. He was carried on the shoulders of his faithful Indians to his burial in the cemetery of Hamilton College, Clinton N.Y. and laid to rest beside his beloved friend and teacher, Rev. Samuel Kirkland.”
“I am an aged hemlock; the winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged have run away and left me.” – Skenandoah
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PETTIBONE FARM
BUILT ABOUT 1799 BY
ABIJAH BRONSON, AN EARLY
VERNON SETTLER. PURCHASED
BY STATE SENATOR
JAMES C. PETTIBONE IN 1842.
VERNON
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ONEIDA CASTLE
Chief Village Of Oneida Tribe of Indians
Members of Iroquois Confederacy