The south door of Iroquois Long House was situated on the point at the meeting of the rivers, 200 rods to the northeast. Queen Esther's Town of the Delaware Indians was 100 rods to the east along the Chemung River bank. Both towns were destroyed by Colonel Thomas Hartley and his troops on September 27, 1778. These flats for five miles, known as Queen Esther's flats, were grazing ground for their herds.