Yeck Family Portage Path North Terminus Memorial

Preserving the Trail of the Portage Path

The Portage Path is now marked for all time in bronze to honor and memorialize the American Indian who for untold centuries preserved and cared for this land and its waterways.

During the 1990's, the ...

Vrooman's Battery

La Batterie Vrooman

Manned by Captain Samuel Hatt's 5th Lincoln (Militia) Regiment and a small party of the Lincoln Militia Artillery under Lieutenant John Ball, and consisting of one 24-pounder cannon mounted within a crescent-shaped earthwork, this Battery was engaged in ...

The Judge Morris Estate

The Former Home of a Delaware Attorney and Judge

Built in the 1790s, this 2½ story gray fieldstone house is the former home of Judge Hugh M. Morris. Morris was a Delaware native, respected attorney and distinguished federal judge. He purchased ...

Action at Butler's Farm

Engagement a Butler's Farm

On the 8th of July, 1813, an outpost of the invading force, encamped near Fort George, was defeated by a band of Six Nations and Western Indians led by Chiefs John Norton and Blackbird and interpreters Michel ...

Modesto – Stanislaus County Seat

Originally called “Ralston” after the

founder who was too modest to permit

the use of his name, hence “Modesto”

Adamsville – 1854, Named after Doctor Adams, the only physician in the area.

Empire City – 1854-1855, Original city completely destroyed by floods, the present ...

"Not a treaty at all"

Although American legislation declared an end to Cherokee sovereignty, most of those remaining in the Nation continued to resist. In December 1835, however, a small party of Cherokee signed the Treaty of New Echota.

The agreement promised that the Cherokee would ...

"Given by the Great Spirit above"

During the 18th century, Cherokees worked hard to defend their homeland from invasion by Anglo-Americans. The nature of Cherokee politics - dispersed and locally defined - often hampered unified resistance to the invaders. In 1809, the Cherokee created a National ...

"Your Fate is Decided"

Both the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Treaty of New Echota aimed to accomplish removal through voluntary emigration. Such efforts largely failed and by 1838 only about 2,000 Cherokee affected by the treaty had moved west. For those ...

County Seat Almost Moved

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Riding the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Lincoln pleaded cases in Livingston County’s first courthouse located on this site. But these events almost did not come to pass. The town proprietors had promised a courthouse, which two years later ...

Waterman House

Home of Asa Waterman-

Revolutionary War officer.

He captured Tories and

fought at Bemis Heights.

Family farm for generations.

Marker is on Saratoga Road (New York Route 50), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org