John Vrooman's Book, "Forts and Firesides of the Mohawk Country" , says in
reference to the Lansing House in Troy:

          On August 21st, 1670, [Harmen] Vedder sold his
              Half of the land called Stone Arabia..."

     "The exact interpretation of the name 'Stone Arabia' is rather obscure.
Some have said it referred to the large stones found so abundantly in its
soil.  Yet another large and important tract of land in the Mahawk Valley,
near Canajoharie, was also know as the Stone Arabis Patent, and no mention
of stone is made on this tract."


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I am curious about the Stone Arabia in Cicero since we have an area known as
Stone Arabia here in Montgomery County -- do you know how that came to be
known as the Stone Arabia Schoolhouse?  I know that there is a Stone Arabia
down by Troy or Albany, but I didn't know that there was another one.  We
get requests all of the time on how Stone Arabia got its name, so this is
just a curiosity.

Kelly A. Yacobucci Farquhar
County Historian/RMO
Montgomery Co. Dept. of History & Archives
Old Courthouse, P.O. Box 1500
Fonda, NY  12068-1500
518-853-8186
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There is also the Stone Arabia Schoolhouse in Cicero, NY, which is a museum
now.  http://www.cnyric.org/history/nsyr/allen/oconnor/site1.htm
<http://www.cnyric.org/history/nsyr/allen/oconnor/site1.htm>

Kent Lingenfelter