In July 1758, sixteen soldiers were massacred in the park, then only a path in the wilderness, by a band of hostile Indians. A teamster, John Quackendoss of Albany, N.Y., was with them and escaped cruel death through the intervention of an Indian squaw. The soldiers and Quackendoss were securely bound and seated on the trunk of a fallen tree, and in this helpless condition the sixteen soldiers were put to death by one of the Indians armed with a tomahawk.

Photo: Bill Coughlin

Photo: Bill Coughlin