Flood waters unearth 18th century fort in Montgomery Co. (NY)

Fox 23 ^ | December 13, 2011 | Katherine Underwood

[oh8eleven]

Irene’s flood waters tore up the parking lot at the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
With apologies to Joni Mitchell:

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging British Fort

[Irish Eyes]

mark

[chb]

Schoharie Valley was a critical theater during the War of Independence. There is an excellent history of the valley up to about 1820 available online. I highly recommend it for a view of what the war was really like. We tend to get a highly sanitized version of it these days.

[Nailbiter]

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[Nailbiter]

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[Pharmboy]

Great stuff! Thanks for posting, NYer, and for the pings colorado tanker, NonValueAdded and the tireless SunkenCiv (SC is tireless since he parked his SUV in the Bronx and came back to find his car on milk crates...;-P).

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[Pharmboy]

Thanks for your personalized info on this post; just want to emphasize a point you made about the Oneidas for those that may be unaware of their singularity: when the rest of the Iroquois Confederacy supported the Brits, the Oneidas were the only tribe supporting the patriot side. If you have a chance to support them, please do. While some remain in NY State, I believe most now live in Wisconsin.

[muawiyah]

The tribally organized guys live in New York and Wisconsin, with some of them in Michigan. The non-tribally organized guys live in Indiana and New York. There are really many more of them are generally recognized.

One of their characteristics that is very noteworthy is they had an immigration policy and allowed European origin people to move in, set up shop to do stuff, and to farm, or teach farming.

That was their downfall as well. About 1830 New York, always greedy for more land to give away to illegal aliens, declared that the Oneida were thoroughly "white". They then seized the Oneida lands on the grounds that "whites" were not allowed to own reserved Indian lands.

The former Oneida territory turned to poop as everybody moved away.

[SunkenCiv]

It was up on milk crates, but that was okay, I’d stolen it from Al Gore.