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Located top of Hill, Main drive, Houghton College Campus
Photos submitted by Kay Bennett-Caneadea, NY |
"the Boulder"
burial place of COPPERHEAD
at Houghton, NY
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The surrounding hills of Houghton are rich in Native American and colonial history. On campus, "the Boulder" marks the burial place of Copperhead, last of
the Seneca's in the valley. Across the Genesee River stood tribal council houses now relocated in Letchworth State Part, 15 miles north. During the 1850s the Genesee Valley Canal
carried the commerce of western New York through Houghton, brining with it colorful river boatmen, "Jockey Street" horse fanciers and itinerant gamblers. However, railroad
construction twenty years later made the canal obsolete. (Houghton College Website)
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"The Last One of
The Seneca Tribe of Indians
That Lived in the Town of
Caneadea, NY
Was Buried Here
His Wife died some Years
Before His Death
He died March 23, 1864
He said He was 120 Years Old"
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