Marker Text: In 1835, Joseph Jordan and William S. McDonald donated about 500 acres of land in this area for the town of Houston, later known as Fort Houston. An early map of the townsite shows a section designated as a "public burying ground." The infant child of the Rev. Peter Fu...
A map and another sketch by Francois de Fleury entitled “A Sketch of the Siege of Fort Schuyler,” and “Plan of Fort Stanwix” were presented to Colonel Gansevoort (fort commander in 1777), which shows that Dayton reconstructed the fort on the original site. Two...