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Photographer: Howard C. Ohlhous
Taken: August 17, 2008
Caption: The Oriskany Battle Monument
Additional Description: On August 6, 1877, the centennial commemorating the Battle of Oriskany was celebrated. Ex-New York Governor Horatio Seymour was the main speaker. At sunrise, salutes fired from the guns on the battlefield announced a glorious day. Every home in the village of Oriskany was decorated, and 70,000 people came to the celebration on foot, by wagon, horseback, carriage, boat and by rail. It was a day to remember!

Spurred on by the centennial festivities, funds for a monument were collected. This monument, erected from the stones of the dismantled Erie Canal weigh lock at Utica, was dedicated in 1884.
Submitted: September 26, 2009, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p78491
File Size: 2.688 Megabytes

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