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Fort Stanwix National Monument

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Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
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+1 315-338-7730

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Sunday9am - 5pm
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


Fort Stanwix National Monument is a United States National Historic Site in Rome, New York, managed by the National Park Service . The current fort is a reconstruction of the historic Fort Stanwix occupying approximately 16 acres of downtown Rome. The fort site—although not the reconstruction itself—is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Fort Stanwix is historically significant because of its successful defense by American troops during an August 1777 siege. The fort had been built by the British in 1758 at a strategic site along the water route from Lake Ontario to the Hudson River. After American forces captured and rebuilt the fort during the American Revolutionary War, they were besieged by a British army that invaded from Canada via Lake Ontario, hoping to reach the Hudson River. The British force abandoned the siege, a consequence that helped lead to the defeat of a larger British army during the Saratoga campaign. Fort Stanwix was also the site of the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix between Britain and Native American tribes, as well as of the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix between the tribes and the American government. Besides the fort reconstruction itself, the national monument includes three short trails that encircle it, one of which follows a portion of the Oneida Carry. The Marinus Willett Collections Management and Education Center preserves the monument's 485,000 artifacts and documents, displays exhibits about Fort Stanwix and the Mohawk Valley, and serves as a regional tourism center.
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