Annsville's Fish Creek Side Gives Taberg Its Outdoor Edge

Annsville has a quiet map, but Fish Creek gives it a clear edge. The town history is old Mohawk Valley material: Annsville was formed in 1823 from parts of Lee, Florence, Camden, and Vienna, with its initial town meeting in 1824. The name itself is remembered through Ann Bloomfield, wife of early settler John W. Bloomfield.

The outdoor piece is easier to see today. DEC places Fish Creek State Forest in the towns of Annsville and Camden, with the West Branch of Fish Creek forming the property’s western boundary. The forest is not a manicured park. It is 679 acres of northern hardwoods and old plantations, with unpaved forest access roads rather than a big trail network. DEC also treats the creek as a stocked trout stream, with brown trout and occasional wild brook trout.

Fish Creek ties the map together: state forest, the West Branch along the western boundary, unpaved access roads, and water stocked with brown trout. Around Taberg, that public-land edge sits beside the older town story of Ann Bloomfield. The result is a specific corner of northwestern Oneida County, shaped by forest roads, fishing water, and local memory.