National Historic Landmark - Old Blenheim Bridge

National Historic Landmark - Old Blenheim Bridge

Appearing as if it belonged in a Currier and Ives print, this is one of the longest single-span wooden covered bridges in the world, stretching 210 feet across Schoharie Creek.

The bridge was constructed ...

Blenheim House

Historic Blenheim

“... a brick building recently erected and fitted up in handsome style...”Richmand Daily Dispatch, August 9, 1861

In 1855, fire consumed an earlier house on this site. Owner Albert Willcoxon had no insurance; so upon finishing this house—a center ...

Blenheim Bridge

Longest single span wooden

bridge in world. Built by

Blenheim Bridge Company,

Incorporated 1828. Last of

its kind in this region.

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 30 and Eastside Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 30.

Courtesy ...

Old Blenheim Bridge

Erected 1854 - 1855 by

Nicholas Montgomery Powers

Famous bridge builder

Born Pittsford, Vermont, August 30, 1817

Died Clarendon, Vermont, 1897

This bridge, 232 feet in length, the

longest covered single-span wooden

bridge in the world, was built for the

Blenheim Bridge Company, and was used

as a ...

Historic Blenheim

A family farm, a Civil War encampment site, and a country home, Historic Blenheim now welcomes visitors to explore its landscape and many stories.

Over 200 years ago, family patriarch Rezin Willcoxon moved here from Prince Georges County, Maryland. By the ...

Blenheim

This community was named for Blenheim Palace in England, home of the Duke of Marlborough, for whom Marlboro County is said to have been named. Formerly called Mineral Spring or Spring Hill for the mineral springs ½ mile east, Blenheim ...

Blenheim (Willcoxon Farm)

Civil War Soldier Art

Blenheim, built for Albert and Mary Willcoxon about 1859, contains some of the nation’s best-preserved Civil War soldier writings. More than 110 identified Union soldiers, representing units from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Massachusetts, and ...

Blenheim Mineral Springs

Discovered 1781

The Mineral Springs were discovered in 1781 by James Spears, a Whig, who was trying to escape TORY troops, according to Legend. Mr. Spears Lost a shoe in a water hole. When he returned to retrieve his shoe, he ...