572 NEW YORK STATIC MUSEUM 



Herkimer County 



List of Sites 



1 Camp on the north side of South lake, one of the sources of 

 Black river, 20 miles east of Boonville. 



2 A burial place is nearby. 



3 Early relics have been found near Mohawk village. 



4 Indian Castle in Danube was so named from the upper Indian 

 castle or fort, built in 1710 on the flat just below the mouth of No- 

 wadaga creek. There was a mission church there in 1768 ; it was the 

 home of Joseph Brant and King Hendrick. 



5 Burial site of the historic period near the Reformed church. 



6 Village site on the river flats at Herkimer. 



Jefferson County 



General occupation. Jefferson county is unique in several par- 

 ticulars, archeologically speaking, and contains numerous sites 

 of villages and strongholds, all of which are plainly of precolonial 

 occupation. An earlier Iroquoian people, who are identified as the 

 Onondaga, lived within the county for a considerable period of 

 time, leaving numerous traces of their former presence. The prin- 

 cipal center of this occupation is in the area about Rutland Hills, 

 east of Watertown, where many large collections of relics have been 

 made. 



Jefferson county early attracted the attention of anticpiarians 

 ?nd E. G. Squier paid particular attention to the earthworks and 

 made surveys and drawings of the more im|)()rtant known to him. 

 Later Franklin B. Hough described the earthworks and antiquities 

 of the county and recorded considerable about them in his history 

 of Jefferson county. 



Before the Iroquoian-Onondaga came here, however, an Algonkian 

 peoi)le had settled in various parts and another nation that made 

 bird-amulets and monitor i)ipes had settlements. One important site 

 of this character is near Three Mile bay where there are stone graves 

 and burials. Still another ])eople at one time occupied fishing camps 

 and left relics very similar to those used by the ICskimo. The 

 county with its long shore line, many bays and numerous streams 

 provided an attractive dwelHng place where agriculture could be car- 

 ried on and fish and game secured, l)ul in the hilly region back from 

 the lakes fortified stronirholds could be built in times of inxasion. 



