Wooden carvings at Mexico Point Park represent people from different time periods in the park’s multifaceted history. Joseph Brant, also called Theyendanegea, was a Mohawk who served the British as a guide, interpreter, fighter, officer, and diplomat during the French and Indian Wars and during and after the American Revolution; he advised Barry St. Ledger to go first to Oswego to join two hundred Mohawk braves before heading east to attack Fort Stanwix, and although he hoped British service would secure Haudenosaunee ancestral lands for his people, the British defeat left them offering lands in Canada instead. William Casey, a sociology professor at Columbia College, spent summers at the Mexico Point Club in the nineteen twenties and thirties and, when the club changed from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles, sought to turn the carriage house into a medieval manor house modeled on circa twelve hundred England, creating with Severin Bishof an interior where students carved imagery of knights, kings, ladies, armor, and coats of arms. Grace, or The Swimmer, represents generations of people who swam in Lake Ontario at Mexico Point; her late nineteenth-century costume is based on Grace Roop, who in the nineteen nineties petitioned New York State to make the property a state park, negotiated its management between the state and the Town of Mexico, and founded the Friends of Mexico Point Park. Carmen Basilio, born in Canastota, New York, in nineteen twenty-seven, became a professional boxer in nineteen forty-eight, stayed at the Mexico Point Club in the early nineteen fifties while training by the lakeshore with Joey De John, and won world championships in the welterweight and middleweight divisions, including a famous fifteen-round victory over Sugar Ray Robinson in September nineteen fifty-seven. Bessie Maude represents the waitresses who served visitors at the Mexico Point Inn, an upscale hotel and restaurant that made Mexico Point a destination for dining and dancing from the late nineteenth century through nineteen fifty-three, even during Prohibition. Kenny and Hoover, a barefoot boy fishing with his dog, represent the many children and adults who have enjoyed fishing there across the years.