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Within this area stood Caughnawaga, the Mohawk Indian village, and St. Peter Chapel, where Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, "The Lily of The Mohawks," was baptized on Easter Sunday, April 18, 1678. A memorial there was erected by the Conventual Franciscans and dedicated by Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons on Sept. 11, 1938. It was presented in memory of Beatrice S. Applegate by the Applegate Family of Ilion, N.Y.
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