408 THE SKNECA NATION 



The group in the Honeoye Valley is the more pronounced. 

 Eying well up in the hills, two miles north of Hemlock L,ake at 

 Richmond Mills, is the great Stone Age Seneca village site on 

 the farm of Mr. George Reed, and nearby is the similar site on 

 the farm of Mr. Belcher. In their refuse heaps occurs a great 

 variety of articles of stone, bone and antler, characteristically 

 Iroquois. A little to the north is the village on the farm of 

 Jacob Tram, in which the Stone Age articles predominate, but in 

 which a very few European articles have been found. Farther 

 to the north, on the banks of Honeoye Creek, in West Bloom- 

 field, are the two great sites on the farms of Mr. Olmstead at 

 Factory Hollow, and of Mr. Warren at West Bloomfield station. 

 These are of the transition period and show the beginning of 

 traders' influence upon a Stone Age community. Articles typical 

 of the Stone Age are found in the refuse heaps aud European 

 articles are found in the graves. Still farther to the northward 

 is the great site on the farm of Mr. J. T. Kirkpatrick, at Rochester 

 Junction. Here Stone Age articles are few and European articles 

 abundant. On the farm of Mr. John Dann, a few miles to the 

 southwest, is a site from which has been taken an immense 

 number of European articles, while at Eima, nearby, are two 

 more sites seemingly of the same age as that on the Kirkpatrick 

 farm. 



This group of sites undoubtedly marks the movement north- 

 ward down the Honeoye Creek of a very considerable community 

 of Senecas. We may suppose that starting at the Richmond 

 Mills site the community, then unacquainted with the European 

 traders, moved downward, following the creek, and first tarrying 

 at the Tram site, established themselves at the village at Factory 

 Hollow, where traders, probabl}^ from New Amsterdam, first 

 visited them. Thence they moved to the Warren site. Leaving 

 this they seem to have followed the creek north and occupied the 

 advantageous spot on the Kirkpatrick farm. Here they seem to 

 have been found by the Jesuits and by Greenhalgh, and this was 

 the village burned by Denonville, called by him Totiakto. The 

 extensive group of sites along the Genesee River, reaching from 

 Avon to Geneseo probably marks the later movement of this 

 group which terminated in 1779 with the destruction of their 

 towns by General Sullivan. 



The great site at Victor, undoubtedly the Gannagaro of 

 Denonville and the Canagorah of Greenhalgh may mark the ter- 



