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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM7L_their-voices-heard_Rome-NY.html
Built on the foundation of the original 18th-century fort, this reconstruction provides insight into the experiences of those who lived here.
Their stories are preserved in recreated rooms, barracks, and exhibits.
Their stories are told from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM7K_the-fort-community_Rome-NY.html
Fort Stanwix is best known for the 1777 siege, but such dramatic events were not a feature of everyday life here.
Limited space inside the fort forced some soldiers and a few of their wives and children to live outside the walls. A unique commu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLU6_unrealized-expectations_Rome-NY.html
The British gun battery of four cannons and four mortars was located near the brick-red high rise building you see today in front of you. These relatively small weapons were unable to cause significant damage to the fort.
British commander Barr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLT1_walking-on-an-ancient-trail_Rome-NY.html
For centuries American Indians, traders, soldiers, and travelers crossed over this very path. Here goods and ideas were exchanged.
The name of this portage trail between two river systems is the "Oneida Carrying Place." It served as a major eas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLRI_the-gateway-between-east-and-west_Rome-NY.html
For centuries water was the easiest way to move people, goods, and ideas. Hundreds of tons of trade goods passed over the Oneida Carrying Place — here raw materials sent east from the Great Lakes region passed manufactured goods heading west…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLPH_futile-approach_Rome-NY.html
During the August 1777 Siege of Fort Stanwix, British forces dug trenches near this site. This attempt to bring their guns closer to the fort's powder magazine, located in the bastion in front of you, failed.
At the end of the three-week siege,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLNX_water-for-the-garrison_Rome-NY.html
The spring-fed stream, reconstructed here, supplied the garrison with water for drinking and washing. Extending out from the fort was an elevated latrine called a "necessary." It ran into a short channel that fed downstream to the fort's garden.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLNS_the-oneida-carrying-place_Rome-NY.html
Near this point lay the road ofThe Oneida Carrying PlacecalledDe-O-Wain-StaBy the Indians
It formed the connecting linkbetween the watersof the north and southand was from early timean important strategic point
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLNJ_stars-stripes-first-flew-in-battle_Rome-NY.html
Here Aug. 3, 1777theStars & StripesFirst Flew In BattleAbove the Southwest BastionofFort Stanwix(Schuyler)Here Aug 2d to 22d Col. Peter Gansevoort's New York & Massachusetts Continentals successfully withstood a siege by British Regulars, Hessians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLGR_here-the-battle-of-oriskany-was-fought_Rome-NY.html
[Tablet on South Side of Monument] Here the Battle of Oriskany was foughtOn the sixth day of August, A.D. 1777Here British invasion was checked and thwartedHere General Nicholas Herkimer, intrepid leaderOf the American forces tho' mortally wounded…