It Happened Here -- Canajoharie, Montgomery Co. Road Trip

 In 1778 the British agreed to use Native Americans and Tory Rangers to terrorize the western frontiers to disrupt production of grain destined for the Continental Army and to tie down rebel forces in protecting those areas. Raids occurred all along the northern frontiers with major attacks occurring in Cobleskill, Cherry Valley and Wyoming Pennsylvania. The following year, 1779, Washington was determined to retaliate with a large Continental Army force to burn Iroquois towns, destroy their crops and take as many hostages as possible.

                                                   

 Two hundred and thirty five years ago this week General James Clinton and  2000 mostly Continental army regulars set out from Canajoharie, to march southward to join up with General Sullivan's forces in Tioga, Pennsylvania.  They would unite and march up through the Finger lakes region and on into the Genessee valley.  Some forty Indian towns would be destroyed along with the orchard and crops surrounding them.

                                                                                                                                                             

We followed Clinton's route down through Montgomery County along what became known as Clinton Road

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Women's Rights advocate Susan B. Anthony began her career as a teacher in Canajoharie

 

School has been out for a long time at this building that occupies the Canajoharie Academy site, and pupils are now replaced by pigeons.

I hope the village will someday find a use for this impressive building.

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 Learning to take pictures with a small camera through the bars of a fence.

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                                         ( I'll save the "good one" for when I 
                                          resume regular posts starting
                                           on Sept. 1st)