Tag: Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohicans
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The Short-Lived Stockbridge Settlement at Clermont
According to William Strickland, an Englishman who visited Clermont in 1794, “upon a swamp near Clermont, some families of the Stockbridge Indians have resided til within this twelvemonth…” [i] The Stockbridge were mainly Mohicans. The Mohicans had settled what became known as the Hudson River Valley thousands of years ago. They called the river,…
Clermont State Historic Site 