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Taverns, Forts & Castles:
Re-Discovering King Hendrick's Village
Philip Lord, Jr.
New York State Museum
Long-standing tradition and a substantial amount of archaeological
research had placed the site of the mid-eighteenth century Upper
Castle of the Mohawks - King Hendrick's village - at the hamlet of
Indian Castle, along the banks of the Nowadaga Creek in eastern
Herkimer County.
A re-examination of contemporary maps and journals,
within the context of recent research into inland navigation in the
Early Republic Period, has revealed that this village, and the
British fortification associated with it during the French and
Indian War, was actually located over three kilometers further
east, on a height of land that constricts the Mohawk Valley from
the south.
This finding has also permitted the confirmation of a previously
undocumented segment of mid-eighteenth century roadway connecting
the Mohawk and Susquehanna watersheds.
Table of Contents
This webpage was adapted from an article by the same name in
the journal Northeast
Anthropology , Number 52, Fall 1996 and is reproduced here with their
permission.
For additional information contact Philip Lord, Jr. at the New York
State Museum, Room CEC 3097, Empire
State Plaza, Albany, NY 12230, telephone (518) 486-2037, or send an E-mail.
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