The New England Path
The principal trails of the Indians through the wilderness, unbroken save by patches here and there under crude tillage, were two: one near the river; and the other, following the lines of least resistance, nearly identical with the roadbed of the Boston and Albany Railroad and long known as the "New England Path.
The principal trails of the Indians through the wilderness, unbroken save by patches here and there under crude tillage, were two: one near the river; and the other, following the lines of least resistance, nearly identical with the roadbed of the Boston and Albany Railroad and long known as the "New England Path.
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Their Council fire and palisaded village or castle were in Schodack, meaning Fire Place or Place of Council. The site was Castle hill within the present village of Castleton. another place of rendezvous was in Valatie, the Indian name of which (Pachaquak) signifies Meeting Place. Beeren Island was long known as the island of the Mahicans, and Smack's as Aepjen's Island.
NATIVE AMERICANS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, Kinderhook and its Indians, From the book A History of Old Kinderhook By Edward A. Collier, D.D., G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1914, Pages 8 to 21
clipped March 31, 2005
Collection: American History
An Apache Defilade in the Florida Mountains
Fire Protection in Early Hudson NY
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
Heliograph routes of the 1890 Practice
Heliograph route between Fort Cummings NM and Tubac, AZ
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hobnobbing with Brigham Young
Teosinte and the Improbability of Maize
Inflection Points
Internal Intrigues
Masquerade
A Call to Nature
The New England Path
It's No Use Arguing Tastes with a Cow
Party Differences
Sell Them Down the River
The Only Misfortune Of It
Under This Roof
Unnecessary War
A Voyage and a Harbor
The War Prayer
What Horrid Creatures We Men Are