• large wooden spikes jut out from a large wooden angular wall lit by sunlight. verdant grass surrounds it.

    Fort Stanwix

    National Monument New York

People

We are unwilling to join on either side of such a contest, for we love you both-old England and new. Should the King of England apply us for our aid-we shall deny him-and should the colonies apply-we shall refuse." Oneida Nation to Gov. Trumbull, 1775
 
Sunsets and light flashes off the roofs and back into your eyes, people gather around the parade ground and settle near a red cannon.
Sunset on the parade ground.
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Did You Know?

Grey pickets form a line in front of you, then a line of green grass, and a large wooden wall rise.

Fort Stanwix is one of the only forts in the 13 States that never surrendered, British or American, when attacked throughout the American Revolutionary War. More...