Skenandoah, chief of the Oneidas and known as “the white man's friend,” lived at this site in his last home, where he entertained Governor D. Witt Clinton in 1810 and many other distinguished guests. He died here in 1816 at the age of 110. His faithful Indians carried him on their shoulders to his burial in the cemetery of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where he was laid to rest beside his beloved friend and teacher Rev. Samuel Kirkland. Skenandoah said, “I am an aged hemlock, the winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged have run away and left me.”