This was the head of navigation on the Mohawk in former days, where for untold ages before Indians people drew out canoes and carried them to Wood Creek, and where for many decades, in times of normal water, white men landed bateaux. During the siege of Fort Stanwix in Aug. 1777, Sir John Johnson had a camp of his Loyalist Regiment near this spot, and on Aug. 6 Lt. Col. Marinus Willett and 250 men from the garrison attacked and looted it. Returning the same day from his subsequent raid on the camp at the Lower Landing Place, Willett was attacked a short distance north of here by Brig. Gen. Barry St. Leger's British regulars drawn up on the opposite side of the river. Sharp firing followed, the British were driven back, and the garrison reentered the fort with much booty from the raided camps. Fort Williams stood here guarding the landing place in 1755-56.