Ready for our First Hike. Day 2 Elmira NY
Destination an Indian village built by the Civilian Conservation Commission (CCC) in the early 30s. Apparently the tribes around the Finger Lakes built and lived in log cabins!!! Very sad story really. George Washington ordered their villages destroyed and their crops ruined so that they would leave upstate NY and the land would be available for the patriots. Many of the loyalists and Indians died or retreated onto Canada.