Garoga Site

Garoga Site is an archaeological site located at Ephratah in Fulton County, New York. It is also known as Las-7, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Unique Site No. A035-04-0001. It is one of three Mohawk Indian village sites excavated by archaeologist Robert E. Funk in 1969–1970.[2]

Garoga Site
Nearest cityEphratah, New York
Area4.5 acres (1.8 ha)
NRHP reference No.80002613[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 22, 1980

The site, dated to the 16th century, also known as Garogo, or Castle Hill, is "perched on a hilltop overlooking Caroga Creek." It was first excavated by Samuel Frey in the 1800s. William Ritchie and Robert Funk "identified a minimum of nine longhouses within the main village area and they also confirmed the location of a short double palisade that runs across the entrance to the village site."[3] They estimated that the village might have held 700 people.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Funk, Robert E.; Kuhn, Robert D. (2003). Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites (book) (Museum Bulletin 503 ed.). New York State Museum, Albany NY. pp. 482pp. ISBN 1-55557-147-6.
  3. The Archaeological Conservancy. "Garoga (New York)". Retrieved Jan 26, 2016.


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