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List of Sites 



I Tonavvanda is a modern Seneca village on the reservation and 

 along the Tonawanda creek. It seems to have been near here that 

 Mr Kirkland came to another fort on his way toward Buffalo, but 

 farther east. " On the south side of the Tonawanda creek at a 

 small distance, are to be seen the vestiges of another ancient fortified 

 town" (Yates, p. i8). 



« 2 Village and burial site on the highland along the Tonawanda 

 creek near where the West Shore Railroad crosses the creek and the 

 creek road. This is on the Parker property. 



3 Mound of considerable size and early village site on the old 

 Parker estate near Indian Falls. This land is now occupied by Jacob 

 Doctor. Several gorgets and a bird stone were found in the mound, 

 which yielded human remains. 



4 On the Tonawanda reservation near the sandy land on the tri- 

 angle of the road, near the council house is a more recent burial site. 



5 A mound on the hill where the present Indian Baptist church 

 stands was leveled. Human remains and a large quartz crystal were 

 found in the earth. 



6 A site on the right bank of Tonawanda creek below the falls 

 yielded fragments of pottery and several flints. 



7 " The old fort in Oakfield has a ditch and bank inclosing lo 

 acres " (French, p. 327). It is one-half of a mile west of Caryville, 

 and was the best preserved of these works which Squier saw. There 

 are five gatew^ays, and a graded way to the water. The general out- 

 line is oval and the lodge sites were plainly seen. Broken pottery 

 was found, as in all such works. There had been traces of palisades 

 by one of the gates. It was 800 feet long by 600 wide (Squier, 

 p. 65, pi. 8, no. 2. His plan is in figure 76). 



8 A mile northeast of this was a large work called the Bone fort, 

 because a mound was inside "6 feet in height by 30 at the base, 

 which was entirely made up of Human bones slightly covered with 

 earth." Squier thought this certainly one of the works described by 

 the Rev. Samuel Kirkland in 1788. Six miles west of Batavia " he 

 rode to the open fields and arrived at a place called by the vSenecas 

 Tegatainedaghque, which imports a doubly fortified town or a town 

 with a fort at each end. Here he walked about half a mile with one 

 of the Seneca chiefs to view the vestiges of this doubly fortified town. 

 They consisted of the remains of two forts. The first contained 4 

 acres of ground, the other, distant about 2 miles at the other extrem- 



