Rice's Woods Explained

Rice's Woods
Nearest City:	Canajoharie, New York
Added:	July 18, 1980
Refnum:	80002654

Rice's Woods is an archaeological site located at Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York. S. L. Frey, the pioneer Mohawk Valley archaeologist, believed that the Mohawk village site in Rice's Woods, on Big Nose, was Canajorha, the Middle Castle of the Mohawks after about 1677. Other authorities believe that it was the Lower Castle at this same period.^[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Notes and References

1. http://www.fortklock.com/hartleyindianmilitary.htm Three Rivers, Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie, History From America's Most Famous Valleys: Robert M. Hartley Collections of Indian Artifacts (Chiefly of the Mohawk Valley) and Military Uniform Buttons in the Margaret Reaney Memorial Library, St. Johnsville, NY; Prepared by The Montgomery County Department of History and Archives and The Van Epps-Hartley Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association, Published by Mrs. Robert M. Hartley, 1943