Caughnawaga Indian Village Site
National Register of Historic Places

Caughnawaga Indian Village Site

Fonda, Montgomery County, New York
Listed
August 27, 1973
Type
Site
Period
Pre Contact
Ref No.
73001207

About this property

The Caughnawaga Indian Village Site (also known as the Veeder site) is a 17th-century archaeological site of a village of the Mohawk nation, located just west of the village of Fonda in Montgomery County, New York. The Mohawk were one of the original Five Nations of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee, and lived west of Albany, occupying much of the Mohawk Valley. Other Iroquois nations were located west of them and south of the Great Lakes. The Mohawk had trading relationships with French colonists coming south from Quebec, with Dutch based in Albany, and with the later English who took over Dutch territory. Under pressure from the French in the late 17th century, some Mohawk moved to other areas. Some who had converted to Catholicism relocated to mission villages near Montreal and to the west along the St. Lawrence River. Because most of the Mohawk in the New York state and Pennsylvania areas were allied with Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War, they were mostly forced out of New York when Britain ceded its territory in the colonies to the new United States. The Crown provided some land in compensation at what became the Six Nations Reserve of the Grand River, Ontario. This former village site was discovered in 1950 by Rev. Thomas Grassmann. It is the only Mohawk village site in the country to have been completely excavated for archeological studies.

Location

Fonda, Montgomery County, New York

Categories

HISTORIC - ABORIGINAL
Sources

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When was Caughnawaga Indian Village Site listed on the National Register?

Caughnawaga Indian Village Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 27, 1973.

What type of historic resource is Caughnawaga Indian Village Site?

Caughnawaga Indian Village Site is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Caughnawaga Indian Village Site is recorded as the pre_contact era.

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