The Oneida Carry Research Group

"WHY THE ONEIDA CARRY"
A presentation by the Oneida Carry Research Group
6:00 pm, Wednesday, May 20
Clark Mills Historical Society, Mill Street, Clark Mills, NY
Kirkland Senior Center Building, 2 New Street

The Oneida Carry is the land bridge between the Mohawk River and Wood Creek. Today, the city of Rome, New York, is situated on this site. During the 18th century the Oneida Carry was a crucially strategic site. Located in the land of the Oneida Indian Nation, it was where travelers needed to “carry” their boats and materials from one stream to another. It was through the Oneida Carry that Britain launched military campaigns to conquer New France during the French and Indian War. It is where they built 7 forts, one of which was Fort Stanwix. During the Revolution, American forces used this fort to block a British invasion of the Mohawk Valley, which contributed greatly to the victory at Saratoga. It is also where the Erie Canal was begun, leading to the nation’s westward movement. This PowerPoint presentation is free and open to the public and lasts approximately one hour.

Berm: A level space between the parapet and the ditch, intended to keep earth and debris from sliding into the ditch.

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Now available at Oneida County History Center, select titles from Cornell University Press!

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Books shown from top to bottom include:
The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory by Susan Brewer
Defending Fort Stanwix: A Story of the New York Frontier in the American Revolution by William L. Kidder
The Abortionist of Howard Street: Medicine and Crime in Nineteenth-Century New York by R.E. Fulton
Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State by Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello
New York's Burned-over District: A Documentary History, edited by Spencer W. McBride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey
Fire and Freedom: The American Revolution in New York, edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander, Jennifer Lemak, and Robert Chiles
The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier by Amy Godine

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