Kendall presently has four historical markers. Here are the pictures and the locations of them.
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#1 The Sloopers marker: is located on Roosevelt Highway (Route 18). The marker is in front of the Kendall Jr/Sr. High School. The Sloopers marker denotes the first
American Norwegian Settlement. Cleng
Peerson brought 50 immigrants on a boat called a slooper and named it
“Restoration”. Peerson had purchased six
pieces of land in Kendall
Township for the sloopers
to settle on.
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#2 The Clark' Settlement marker is located on the
corner of Sand Road
and Monroe-Orleans County Line
Road (Route 272) in Morton.
Robert Clark came with his father, William Clark, in 1817, and located
at ‘Clark's Settlement’, where three brothers
of his father had previously settled. In about the year 1820, a
Public Library Association was formed. Among
the names in this movement were H. W. Bates, Adin Manley, Dr. Theophilus
Randall, Amos Randall, David Jones, Calvin Freeman, Orrin Doty, James M. Clark,
Benjamin Morse, Nathaniel Brown, Caleb Clark, and Noah Priest.
#3 The Norway Colony marker is located on the
intersection of Norway Road
and Bald Eagle Drive.
(The marker is close to the shore of Lake Ontario). The Sloopers entered NYC port, after being
detained, then sailed up the Hudson River till they came to the Erie Canal. They
then went west on the Erie Canal till they
came to Holley. From there they sold
their slooper and came to Kendall by foot.
