State Profile for New York

Added to Union: July 26, 1788 (11th State)	State Official Bird: Bluebird
Capital: Albany	State Official Flower: Rose
State Website: http://www.state.ny.us/	State Official Tree: Sugar Maple

Historical Figures from New York

• Samuel Blatchford
  
• Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
  
• George Clinton
  
• Schuyler Colfax
  
• Millard Fillmore
  
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  
• John Marshall Harlan II
  
• Charles Evans Hughes
  
• Ward Hunt
  
• Robert Houghwout Jackson
  
• John Jay
  
• Henry Brockholst Livingston
  
• Thurgood Marshall
  
• Samuel Nelson
  
• Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Jr.
  
• Theodore Roosevelt
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
• Philip Schuyler
  
• James Sherman
  
• Harlan Fiske Stone
  
• Abraham Ten Broeck
  
• Smith Thompson
  
• Samuel J. Tilden
  
• Daniel Tompkins
  
• Martin Van Buren
  
• William Wheeler
  

Historical Sites in New York

• Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany
  
• Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany
  
• Alfred E. Smith State Office Building, Albany
  
• Cedar Grove, Catskill
  
• Cemetery of the Evergreens, New Lebanon
  
• Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo
  
• Fort Crailo, Rensselaer
  
• Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, Hyde Park
  
• General Grant National Memorial, New York
  
• Grant Cottage State Historic Site, Wilton
  
• International Boxing Hall of Fame, Canastota
  
• Kinderhook Reformed Cemetery, Kinderhook
  
• Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook
  
• Millard Fillmore House Museum, East Aurora
  
• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown
  
• New York State Education Building, Albany
  
• New York State Military Museum, Saratoga Springs
  
• Olana State Historic Site, Hudson
  
• Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Oyster Bay
  
• Saint Mark's Church-In-The-Bowery, New York
  
• Saratoga National Park Battlefield, Stillwater
  
• Schuyler Mansion, Albany
  
• Ten Broeck Mansion, Albany
  
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York
  
• Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, Buffalo
  
• West Point Military Academy and Museum, West Point
  
• Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay
  

There are 28 sites in New York

Did you know?

When President George Washington marched over 12,000 militia to western Pennsylvania to squash the Whiskey Rebellion, it was the first time that the U.S. government used military force.

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