Historical Marker
First Church
Historical marker location:
217 St. Lawrence Avenue, Hammond, New York
( Marker is on St. Lawrence Avenue (County Road 134) 0.1 miles west of Main Street (State Route 37), on the right when traveling west.)
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.