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Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 33,725 at the 2010 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the Leatherstocking Country made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War. Rome is in New York's 22nd congressional district. The city developed at an ancient portage site of Native Americans, including the historic Iroquois. It continued to be strategically important to Europeans who also used the main 18th and 19th-century waterways, ...
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  • 1. Fort Stanwix National Monument Rome New York State
    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 th...
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