Fort Stanwix National Monument

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SITE: Mount Gulian Historic Site
SITE: New York Society of the Cincinnati

LOCATION

Built by the British in 1758, it went from American to British to American hands again during the war. The fort is almost completely reconstructed and includes an extensive archeological collection, a visitor's center, and trails.

Associated People

Arnold, Benedict

But the peculiar character of [Aaron] Burr’s correspondence goes beyond his preoccupation with haste and secrecy. Burr never developed any ideas about constitutionalism or governmental policy in the way the other Revolutionary statesmen did, because, in truth, he was not much concerned about such matters. If he had any idea about the new federal Constitution of 1787, he left no record of it.

— Gordon S. Wood

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)