Champlain Academy

Historical marker location:

4375 Main Street, Port Henry, New York

( Marker is on Main Street (New York State Route 9N/22), on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1938

The Hudson River School of painting, which was a 19th-century art movement that focused on landscapes and the natural world, was founded in New York State. Some of its most famous artists, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, lived and worked in the Hudson River Valley.