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Ge-Wa-Ga, a village of the Cayuga Nation, stood near this spot. It was occupied and destroyed by a detachment from the army of General John Sullivan, commanded by Lieut-Col. William Butler, which bivouacked here on the night of September 21, 1779, before proceeding to the capture and destruction of the main Cayuga villages at Great Gully about one and a half miles south of this place on the next day.
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