Kendall historical marker marks Norwegian settlement

A new historical marker will be unveiled at the Lake Ontario end of Norway Road in Kendall at 1 p.m., Saturday, October 16. It will commemorate the first settlement of the first group of Norwegian immigrants to North America. They arrived at that site in October 1825, numbering 53, after a journey of more than three months. They crossed the Atlantic in a 54-foot sloop and are called "The Sloopers."

The unveiling ceremony will include brief comments on "The Sloopers" as a group by Bill Andrews, president of the Sons of Norway lodge in western New York, and on the family of Jacob Anderson Slogvik by Joette Knapp, Kendall town historian. The marker is at the site of the farm of that family.