New York Historical Markers - The Oneida Country
N 43° 05.755 W 075° 50.488
18T E 431520 N 4771809
Located on the West Bound side of Interstate 90 at a rest stop.
Waymark Code: WM4RDQ
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2008
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Text from the plaque:
THE ONEIDA COUNTRY
The Oneida Indians joined the Mohawks, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas about 1550, to form the Five Nations or Iroquois Confederacy. This was the legendary "Great Peace" made by the Indian statesman Hiawatha and Dekanawidah. Called "People of the Standing Stone" from an upright rock at their meeting place, the Oneidas had their principal settlement south of Oneida Lake. In 1722, the Tuscaroras coming from North Carolina settled west of the Oneidas and became the sixth Iroquois nation. Living along the Mohawk River trade route and near the source of the Susquehanna River, the Oneidas were hunters, traders and farmers. Influenced by their missionary Samuel Kirkland, the Oneidas sided with the Americans during the Revolution while others of the Confederacy aided the British. Some of their lands were opened up for settlement by the Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1768, later more Oneida land was ceded to the state.
Early in the nineteenth century turnpikes were built through this region providing a principal route westward and were followed by the Erie Canal in 1825. Later came the railroads and improved highways. The fertile soil of this bottom land is intensively cultivated for large scale truck farming.
In addition to the link provided below, you can more at Oneida County Historical Society
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