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1 posted on 12/13/2011 2:30:19 PM PST by NYer
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To: SunkenCiv

Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York bordering the north bank of the Mohawk River. It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec. The county seat is Fonda.

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2 posted on 12/13/2011 2:32:20 PM PST by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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To: NYer

Very cool, NYer! Thanks for posting!


3 posted on 12/13/2011 2:35:33 PM PST by momtothree
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To: NYer

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytryon/forthunter.html


4 posted on 12/13/2011 2:35:50 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: NYer

Cool!

I often wonder what lies beneath our feet from other times.


5 posted on 12/13/2011 2:36:35 PM PST by Palladin (Santorum/Bachmann 2012.)
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To: Pharmboy

ping!


10 posted on 12/13/2011 2:50:10 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Centralization destroys the blight of monopoly")
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To: NYer

Nothing new here . We have paved over Most of Our History. And will continue to do so. God Bless the Bulldozer.


13 posted on 12/13/2011 3:06:58 PM PST by dbrew2u
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To: Pharmboy; SunkenCiv

ping


15 posted on 12/13/2011 3:09:32 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: NYer
Irene’s flood waters tore up the parking lot at the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
With apologies to Joni Mitchell:
21 posted on 12/13/2011 4:00:37 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Irish Eyes

mark


22 posted on 12/13/2011 4:18:02 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: NYer

Schoharie Valley was a critical theater during the War of Independence. There is an excellent history of the valley up to about 1820 available online. I highly recommend it for a view of what the war was really like. We tend to get a highly sanitized version of it these days.


23 posted on 12/13/2011 5:10:54 PM PST by chb
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