Historical Marker
The St. Lawrence Plain
Historical marker location:
De Kalb, New York
( Marker is on U.S. 11, 0.2 miles west of East De Kalb Road, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1963
Historic New York.
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.