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and in the vicinity of the hotel garden a great abundance of flint 

 arrowheads, ornamental pipes, hatchets and other stone implements 

 were found. The writer when a boy spent rainy days in successful 

 searches for them and they are still occasionally found. 



Commencing on the east side of Lester street near the town line 

 and running thence many rods westerly parallel with the brink of the 

 declivity that forms the southern boundary of the plateau upon 

 which the principal part of the village is located and about 3 rods 

 trom the bank, was a similar breastwork. It extended westward 

 along the brink of the hill to wet ground where it faded away. The 

 principal fortification, however, was situated partly between these 

 embankments. It was an extensive circular earthwork having a 

 trench upon the outside. Within its earthen walls were inclosed the 

 village green and the adjacent streets and village lots. It crossed 

 Main street a little east of the brick store of R. E. Sheldon. It 

 crossed Lester street a little north of a small rivulet and south of the 

 Congregational church. Just west of Lester street was a gateway. 

 The embankment crossed East avenue 8 or 10 rods ofif the village 

 green. It passed over the site of the Methodist church, crossed Park 

 street to a point south of the Baptist church and continued south to 

 the starting point at Main street. The little brook that runs from the 

 spring a little distance northeast of the Methodist church, crossing 

 Main street at the Reid block, passed through the northern portion of 

 the inclosure of this ancient fort. All parts of this embankment 

 were visible when the village was first settled, except where there 

 was a wet and level place in the northwestern part. The embankment 

 when first seen was 4 feet high where it crossed Main street, and 

 required some labor to level in the construction of Main street. Full- 

 sized maple trees grew upon the earthworks. 



Within the corporation upon a high blufi^ to the west that rises 

 precipitously from Mill creek, opposite the foot of Main street, 

 v>as once another earthwork. It is said to have been circular 

 with an excavation or cache within from 12 to 15 feet deep 

 and 8 feet across. The intrenchment, if it existed, has long since 

 disappeared. Traces of the excavation remain. The description 

 given of these works by T. Apoleon Cheney are not to be relied upon 

 and his map is incorrect in many respects. There was no boulder of 

 the character he mentions here. One-half of a mile or more to the 

 west of the village there was once a large boulder with an artificial 

 cavity cut in its upper surface, that had been evidently used by the 

 aborigines for the purpose of ])oun(ling corn. This boulder was 

 afterwards broken and used in 1)uildino; tlie railroad bridge over the 

 Cassadaga near Moons station. 



