Smith Pagerie Site
Appearance
Smith Pagerie Site | |
Nearest city | Ephratah, New York |
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Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 80002615[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 22, 1980 |
Smith Pagerie Site, also known as Las. 11–4, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Unique Site No. A035-04-0002, is an archaeological site located at Ephratah in Fulton County, New York, US. It is one of three Mohawk Indian village sites excavated by the archaeologist Robert E. Funk in 1969–1970.[2]
The site is dated from 1560 to 1580. It occupies 4 acres (1.6 ha) just east of Caroga Creek, contains the remains of twelve to fifteen longhouses, and was probably surrounded by a palisade. Its population is estimated to have been around 1350.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Funk, Robert E. and Robert D. Kuhn (2003). Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites (book) (Museum Bulletin 503 ed.). New York State Museum, Albany NY. pp. 482pp. ISBN 1-55557-147-6.
- ^ Snow, Dean (1995). Mohawk Valley Archaeology: The Sites (PDF). Matson Museum of Archaeology, Penn State University. ISBN 0-9647913-0-7. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
Categories:
- Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Fulton County, New York
- Iroquois populated places
- Former Native American populated places in New York (state)
- Mohawk
- Native American history of New York (state)
- National Register of Historic Places in Fulton County, New York
- Adirondack Mountains, New York Registered Historic Place stubs