Canajoharie
The Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains the Indian Castle Church, built in 1769 for the Mohawk by Sir William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, on land donated by his consort Molly Brant and her brother Joseph Brant, both leaders among the Mohawk. The site also has archeological resources related to Iroquois history. For a time the town was the home of the notable Mohawk leaders Hendrick Theyanoguin (1692–1755) and the Brants. According to Joseph Brant, Canajoharie means "a kettle stuck on a pole." A modern etymology translates it as "a washed kettle" or "the pot that washes itself". It refers to swirling actions of water in a large circular pothole in the Canajoharie Creek near where it empties into the Mohawk River.
The modern village of Canajoharie, New York was settled by European Americans a few miles to the east of the historic Mohawk village.
In popular culture
Referenced by They Might Be Giants in their album Join Us.
Referenced in book, "Tell the Bees That I Am Gone" Chapters 83 and 85 by Diana Gabaldon, 2022.
See also
References
- ^ Dean R. Snow and David B. Guldenzopf, "Indian Castle Church" Archived 2006-06-22 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed August 23, 2009.
- ^ Isabel Thompson Kelsay, Joseph Brant, 1743-1807, Man of Two Worlds (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1984), 46.
- ^ Dean R. Snow "Searching for Hendrick: Correction of a Historic Conflation" Archived 2008-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. New York History, History Cooperative, Summer 2007. Accessed August 23, 2009.