Southern N.Y. Village Marks 175th Anniversary
A village named for pack horses that died in the American Revolution has a new monument marking its 175th anniversary.
The bronze statue of a pack horse was unveiled Saturday morning near the village hall in Horseheads, 70 miles south of Syracuse. The ceremony wrapped up a yearlong celebration of the village’s anniversary.
Horseheads got its name from the sick and disabled pack horses disposed of following the Clinton-Sullivan expedition in August 1779, a key campaign of the American Revolution. The native Iroquois gathered the skulls and lined them up. The spot became known as the “valley of the horse’s heads.”
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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