| Berne
Timeline |
A timeline relating to events and people
in the history of Berne. |
| No
Sabbath on the Battlefield |
The Diary of a Union Solider, George
H. Warner, from Berne N. Y. 1863 |
| The
Dietz Massacre |
A recent research article from Harold
Miller outlining the events surrounding what is commonly
referred to as "The Dietz Massacre". |
| Dietz Massacre - Correcting Two Centuries of Confusion and Error |
Harold Millers article published in the Schoharie County Historical Review in October 2004. |
| The
Palatines |
A fascinating account of the first settlers
in Berne and how they came to be there. |
| My
Fathers People |
This is a 15 page reminiscence of William
L. Osterhout written in 1953 when he was 90 years old. It is based
on the oral history of how his great-grandfather born in 1766 lived
in Knox. William's father moved to Berne. It is a very interesting
piece of oral history about the Anti-Rent War set to the written page
a century later. |
| The
Beaverdam |
An account of how the name "The
Beaverdam" became associated with the Berne area and a likely
location for the original beaver dam. |
| Berne in the 1850's |
A revised excerpt from Memories of Berne, Days Gone
By |
| 1839 into 1870s |
Starting with an 1839 meeting in Bernville,
tenants on the Van Rensselaer Manor (all of present-day Albany County)
rose up against their entrapment as serfs on a feudal manor. This
ultimately led to sweeping changes which gave us the American Way
we know today. For more, follow the links to The Anti-Rent
Wars. |
| Settling Berne |
Harold Miller wrote this article, published in the Altamont Enterprise, about the settling of Berne. |
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