End of Summer Update Follow Up

My last post I eluded to the fact that we were going to check out Fort Stanwix.  We did and found it to be very cool, totally reconstructed in downtown Rome, NY, after extensive archaeological excavation.  Well worth the trip!

Here's a little bio of the fort:


Fort Stanwix National Monument is a United States National Historic Site in Rome, New York managed by the National Park Service. The current fort is a reconstruction of the historic Fort Stanwix occupying approximately sixteen acres of downtown Rome.
Fort Stanwix is historically significant for the successful American defense of the fortification in August 1777, a defense that proved a major factor in blunting a British invasion from Canada during the Saratoga campaign. The fort was also the site of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768).
Besides the fort reconstruction itself, the national monument includes three short trails that encircle it, one of which follows a portion of the Oneida Carry. The Marinus Willett Collections Management and Education Center preserves the monument’s 485,000 artifacts and documents, displays exhibits about Fort Stanwix and the Mohawk Valley, and serves as a regional tourism center.