Herkimer County (County) (Geographic Keyword)

PROJECT University at Albany.

The 4E survey was two cultural resource management projects that were carried out during the planning stages of the Mohawk Valley Project in 1981. The two CRM projects were focused on the area along the Mohawk Barge Canal where canal engineers anticipated dumping dredging soil from the channel, which needed deepening to accommodate anticipated barge traffic. There were four areas surveyed, and they all were located in areas where the modern barge canal does not occupy the original Mohawk River...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

Indian Castle is located in the town of Danube. Danube is in the New York county of Herkimer. This site occupies a large area on the south bank of the Mohawk River and is now contained within a National Landmark district. The village was first established in 1693 and the Mohawk community kept a small village here from 1755 to 1776. The village, which is known as Dekanohage was associated with the main upper Mohawk Castle that was located on Prospect Hill in the modern village of Fort Plain...

PROJECT Federal Highway Administration. New York State Department of Transportation.

This project contains reports falling under PIN 2016.66.101 which include historical background research, and field evaluation of historical architecture in advance of construction under PIN 2016.77.101, as well as systematic archaeological field survey of the project area. The architectural survey identified four historical building properties are located within the project limits. All four have been evaluated as non-NRE properties older than fifty years. A total of 162 artifacts were...