Ambush Started Here
The militia column, on its way to the relief of Fort Stanwix, marched into this ravine, August 6, 1777, and were ambushed by Loyalists and British. The attackers came out of hiding in woods on the west, the south and the north.
Marker is on Rome Oriskany Road (New York Route 69) 0.4 miles east of Monument Road, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
