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Hidden in Plain Sight/Off the Beaten Path
In our faces, but unseen. Off the radar, but waiting…
Danascara Place
Another view of this remote mansion in the Mohawk Valley. Its predecessor was burned down in retaliation for the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign.
Burned in 1780
This mansion, a.k.a. Danascara Place, replaced one that was burned in the Spring of 1780 by Iroquois raiders in retaliation for the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign.
Burned in 1779
A lonely sign in the Lake Cayuga area attests to the destruction of Tichero, a forgotten Cayuga village, by the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign.
Cayuga/Seneca County Line
County lines divide the land where footpaths once linked Senecas and Cayugas, before the coming of Sullivan -Clinton.
At the Source
Otsego’s waters still flow south (at you) into the Susquehanna. In 1779, they bore Clinton’s flotilla to join Sullivan at Iroquoia’s edge. With Indians remov...
Otsego Lake Launch
Here, Gen. Clinton’s troops first dammed, then blew up damworks to launch 220 bateaux down the Susquehanna R. to join Sullivan’s force at Tioga Pt., Pa., to ...
Last of the Mohican
Sign of the derelict Mohican Market, the last of this chain in Kingston, New York, America’s first capital.
Indians
Smoking break at a cigar store in New York’s Greenwich Village shows the entwined paths of indigenous and immigrant peoples.
End of History?
Somewhere down the road, in the great beyond, a piece of “history” remains. At least it’s marked!