Rice's Woods is an

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...

located at

Canajoharie Canajoharie (), also known as the "Upper Castle", was the name of one of two major towns of the Mohawk nation in 1738. The community stretched for a mile and a half along the southern bank of the Mohawk River, from a village known as ''Dekanohage' ...

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. S. L. Frey, the pioneer Mohawk Valley archaeologist, believed that the Mohawk village site in Rice's Woods, on Big Nose, was Canajorha, the Middle Castle of the Mohawks after about 1677. Other authorities believe that it was the Lower Castle at this same period.Three Rivers, Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie, History From America's Most Famous Valleys: Robert M. Hartley Collections of Indian Artifacts (Chiefly of the Mohawk Valley) and Military Uniform Buttons in the Margaret Reaney Memorial Library, St. Johnsville, NY; Prepared by The Montgomery County Department of History and Archives and The Van Epps-Hartley Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association, Published by Mrs. Robert M. Hartley, 1943
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in 1980.

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Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, New York Iroquois populated places Former Native American populated places in the United States Mohawk Native American history of New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, New York {{MontgomeryCountyNY-NRHP-stub