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INDIAN MONUMENT, PAINTED POST, N. Y.
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PAINTED POST was named from the fact that the first white
people penetrating this wilderness, found a post standing about 8
feet high, whichwas claimed to be the resting place of Chief Montour,
a son of Catherine Montour, who was wounded at the time of the
ż battle of Fort Freeland.
The post was painted in bright colors-no doubt the paint stones
being used, as well as the juices of the wild berry. When this wooden
post rotted, a tin Indian was put in its place, and later, 1894, a sub-
stantial granite monument, which will commemorate for ages the rest-
ing place of the great Seneca Indian Chief. Early indications showed
that Painted Post was a council meeting place of the six nations. The
land all through this locality yielded valuable relics—the finest collec-
tion in this part of the state being that of the late FrancisErwin, grand-
son of the founder of the town. Painted Post was first mentioned in
history in 1791 in a letter from Gen. Knox to President Washington.
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PUB. BY TILLMAN'S DRUG STORE, PAINTED Post, N. Y.
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