Historical Marker

First Baptist Church

Historical marker location:
6047 East Avenue, Newfane, New York
( Marker is on East Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Main Street (New York State Route 78), on the left when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1981

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.