Caughnawaga, or the Veeder site, is a 17th-century Mohawk village site near Fonda in New York’s Mohawk Valley that preserves the remains of a fortified community of one of the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee. Occupied from at least 1666 to 1693, it stood above the Mohawk River near a spring, and its marked outlines of twelve longhouses and a stockade show the settlement’s form. French Jesuits operated a mission there from 1668 to 1679, and historians believe the village moved to this location in 1679 from an earlier upstream site. Completely excavated after its 1950 discovery, it is the only Mohawk village site in the United States fully studied archaeologically.