Canal Street

Historical marker location:

Scottsville, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Rochester Street (New York State Route 383) and Canal Street, on the left when traveling south on Rochester Street.)

Marker installed: 1949

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.