The Little Falls Historical Society Museum

Little Falls African American History

The focus of this virtual exhibit is to chronicle a history of African American presence in Little Falls from the time of slavery up to the 2015 dedication of a monument in Little Falls Church Street Cemetery.

The Underground Railroad In And Around Little Falls

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The Underground Railroad (URR) was a loosely organized network of people, (men and women, African American and white,) dedicated to helping people escape from bondage in the slave-holding states of the South to freedom in the antislavery states of the North and ultimately to Canada in the period before the Civil War.

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African American Monument Audio Tour

Monument | Little Falls Historical Society Museum

African American Monument at Little Falls Church Street Cemetery

African American Monument at Little Falls Church Street Cemetery by Natalie Reyes. Narrated by Robert Katz, Cooperstown Museum Studies Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta, Class of 2019.
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“In memory of those early African Americans who were discriminated against in both life & death. Denied equality, few grave stones exist in this section referred to as the “Colored Buriel Ground.” It is for us, the living, to rectify this wrong by granting this tribute of remembrance.”

Edwin Vogt & Little Falls Historical Society

Sidney Alva (infant)   1863
Sarah Bergman   1869
George Best   1857
Sylvester Best (infant)   1857
Rebecca Battison  1883
Mary Best (child)  1859
(?) Badson   unknown
Beulah Champion   1938
John Champion   1937
Robert Champion   1977
Bertha May Creasey   1911
Sally Davis  1850
Charles Dygert    1857
George Dygert (infant)    1853
Horace Dygert    1870
George Ently     1853
Frank Feeter    1878
Elmira Flansburg    1878
Rachal Fuller     1878
William Gibbs (infant)   1860
Alfaretta Hastil (infant)    1856
Ella Harris (child)   1863
Francis Harris   1863
Catherine Harrison    1866
Susan Henry     1866
(Baby Boy) Hopkins 1961             

George Jackson     1891
Infant Jackson   1853
Ira Jackson   (infant)    1859
Phillip Jackson    1867
Samuel Jackson     1861
Cecilia Johnson     1897
Mercy Johnson     1860
Helena Jones       1891
Mary Kane     1864
Rose Lowe      1950
Abram Miller      1848
(Mrs.) Dean Miller    1876
Elizabeth Miller      1838
Cornelia Moore       1913
Francis E. Moore (child) 1862
Enoch Moore       1853
Florence Moore    1853
Gertrude Moore    1903
Grace Moore      1919
Isabelle Moore   1938
Willis E. Moore    1865
Flora A. Myers   1867
Flora L. Myers  (infant) 1864
Francis Myers   1861
Andrew Nilson    1937

Charles Peterson   1915
Isabelle Peterson    1933
Lucinda Phillips     1896
Addison Phillips (youth)   1875
Edward Power  1856
Jane Prince      1903
Nancy Prince       1915
Julia C. Ray     1857
~Ray (woman)    1858
Richard Reese (infant)   1862
George Rest      1857
Little Rest      1857
Jerold Saltsman (infant)   1913
Mary Sharp (infant)     1855
Dolly N. Shewsbury (infant) 1856
Susan Shorter     1867
Maria Webster     1839
John Williams      unknown
Andrew Wilson       1937
Hiram Wilson      1916
Sophronia Wilson   1919
Clara V. Wright     1957
George B. Wright   1965
Mabel Wright    1908
William Bartlett Wright   1936    

Little Falls Historical Society Museum Exhibits

All 10 /Current Exhibits 1 /Ongoing Exhibits 3 /Past Exhibits 2 /Virtual Exhibits 4

First U.S. Cheese Market Exhibit

Little Falls African American History

Little Falls and Women’s Suffrage

Little Falls Diamonds Collection

Little Falls Music Exhibit

Little Falls Waterways

Making History Today

Making History Today Student Edition

Massacre at the Little Falls Grist Mill

Myjava, Slovakia Exhibit

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Massacre at the Little Falls Grist MillGrist Mill Attack Historic Marker in Little Falls, New York.Writing Series