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The earthworks and hilltop strongholds of the county are interest- 

 ing and will well repay examination; one of these is situated on lot 

 27, in the town of Avon, on an eminence overlooking Conesus creek. 

 Another famous fort of this type is situated in the village of Dans- 

 ville, where numerous relics have been discovered. 



When General Sullivan entered this region he found it a garden 

 spot with well-constructed villages and little hamlets dotted through- 

 out the region. There were immense tracts of corn land, hundreds 

 of acres of produce under cultivation and many extensive orchards. 

 These were destroyed by the soldiers, many of whom have left us 

 complete accounts in their journals. 



In Livingston county the Seneca Indians made their last stand 

 against the pressure of civilization. Here it may be said they were 

 thrown from their primitive state into a more direct touch with the 

 white men's civilization. It was in this county that their nation was 

 disrupted and fled in scattered bands to the protection of the British 

 guns at Fort Niagara. A few of them lingered and perhaps for fifty 

 years there were small and scattered settlements in remote parts of 

 the valley, but eventually they withdrew to their outlying settlements 

 in Cattaraugus and Erie counties where they again attempted to set 

 up a semblance of their old life. 



List of Sites 



1 Village site, Dyu-ne-ga-no, situated in the present village of 

 Caledonia. A considerable quantity of relics have been found here. 



Doty in his history of Livingston county says : " To the east and 

 south of the Indian town lay oak openings where the Senecas pas- 

 tured their rough-coated ponies, to the southwest a grove of wild 

 plum trees and grape vines on forest-grown trellises opened before 

 the natives supplying them with fruit, while the waters of the spring 

 afforded trout and other fine fish in abundance. Standing near the 

 westerly border of the spring was the fatal post to which condemned 

 prisoners were fastened for torture. . . . The Indian burial 

 place was located about 20 rods northeast of the spring, where, in 

 digging wells and cellars, bones in abundance have been found." 



2 Camp site east of Lime Rock where many notched points have 

 been found. 



3 Mound now destroyed, cited by Squier, was 3 miles south of 

 the Wheatland Forks. The mound contained human bones. 



4 Camp or small village site in Caledonia on the Loewing farm 

 about i mile west of Canawagus. The occupied ground lay along a 



