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A Tale of Three Cities (Rescued from the Memory Hole - The Lydia Patterson Hecht Gallery)
- The Onondaga capital, Little Beard’s Town, site of the Western Door, was burnt on Sept. 14-15, 1779. At Rt. 39, near Geneseo.
- The Seneca capital, Little Beard’s Town, site of the Western Door, was burnt on Sept. 14-15, 1779. At Rt. 39, near Geneseo.
- The Cayuga capital, Goi-O-Guen, was burnt on Sept. 22-23, 1779. At Rt. 90, near Aurora. See its 1929 Remembrance in the L. P. Hecht Gallery inside…
Boyd-Parker Park 1
Set beside the Geneseo -Cuylerville Rd.(Rt. 39), this site and their Ambuscade are the only true Memorials to any named individuals, among the more than 10,0...
Tortured Tree
Distressed, this tree expires on the very site of the Boyd-Parker ambush by the Senecas, three days before Sullivan’s burning of nearby Little Beard’s Town, ...
Order of Battle
Outnumbering the population of Western Iroquoia, Sullivan’s Army set out on a scorched earth invasion that burned all known villages and enlisted hunger by b...
Torches to Plough Shares
Ample farms now stand on the former fields and orchards of Little Beard’s Town. This one borders on the Retsof sink hole, only yards from Boyd- Parker Park a...
The Scorched Earth
The 1994 collapse of the nearby old Retsof mine made the area’s wells and waters toxic and turned some of its still amazingly fertile topsoil into this.
The Bitter Waters
The collapse and flooding of the old Retsof mine shafts created this toxic sink hole. It lies beneath the Geneseo- Cuylerville road bridge, only 50 yards fro...
Karmic Justice?
A nearby salt mine collapse in 1994 caused this toxic sinkhole. It festers with methane emissions, at the center of the former Seneca capital, Little Beard’s...
Little Beards Town Marker
The back of theS/C monument in Boyd- Parker Park is the only outdoor indication of the former site of the Seneca capital, the once West- ern Door, burnt by S...
Little Beard’s Town Map
The Seneca capital, at the Western Door, was S/C’s prime target. It is where Boyd & Parker were captured and killed while trying to locate the town for b...
Driven from Home
The flight of 5,000+ Haudenosaunee refugees from Sullivan’s advance in September, 1779. (Print of Ernest Smith’s 1936 watercolor.)
Boyd-Parker Park 2
Commemorates the martyrdom of the two Yankee scouts at the hands of Iroquois captors. Boyd led 28 scouts in a search for Little Beard’s Town, which is burned...