Fort Stanwix National Monument

Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome, N.Y. was authorized in 1935 to preserve the site of an American Revolution battle in which American troops repulsed a British invasion from Canada, ending a three-week siege in August 1777. The original fort was built of logs by the British in 1758, during the French and Indian Wars, to protect a portage on the Mohawk River, which flows into the Hudson River just south of Albany. It was on this 15-acre site ten years later in 1768, that the treaty was signed ceding all Iroquois lands east of the Ohio River to the British.