Ga-No-Gah, or "Oil Floating on the Water", was a small village of about 10 houses and had good crop of corn surrounding it.
Ga-No-Geh was destroyed during the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign by Colonel Dearborn and his men on September 21st, 1779 and was one of the first villages they destroyed after being dispatched from the main force.
It later caused some trouble when the Iroquois sachems sold most of the land around Ga-No-Geh leaving the tribe no place to live. The Iroquois rectified this by giving the tribe a parcel of land elsewhere while only a single sachem named Fish Carrier was allowed to stay at Ga-No-Geh.
What was once the location of Ga-No-Geh is now the site of the small village of Canoga with a marker denoting the location of Ga-No-Geh at the intersection of Canoga Street and Route 89. GPS Coordinates Latitude 42°51'15.64"N by Longitude 76°44'57.39"W
Ga-No-Geh was destroyed during the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign by Colonel Dearborn and his men on September 21st, 1779 and was one of the first villages they destroyed after being dispatched from the main force.
It later caused some trouble when the Iroquois sachems sold most of the land around Ga-No-Geh leaving the tribe no place to live. The Iroquois rectified this by giving the tribe a parcel of land elsewhere while only a single sachem named Fish Carrier was allowed to stay at Ga-No-Geh.What was once the location of Ga-No-Geh is now the site of the small village of Canoga with a marker denoting the location of Ga-No-Geh at the intersection of Canoga Street and Route 89. GPS Coordinates Latitude 42°51'15.64"N by Longitude 76°44'57.39"W
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