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Fort Stanwix National MonumentClean shaven faces of 3rd NY soldiers stand in a line, muskets rest on thier left shoulder, and black cocked hats rest on thier heads.
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Fort Stanwix National Monument
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Finding the spirit of desertion to increase and the men in general to be exceedingly uneasy, probably arising from their being so long stationed on this frontier post they have been frequently heard.. to say they would sooner died, than stay here the ensuing winter. ---Col. Peter Gansevoort to Gen. Washington 8.18.1778
 
A stark greyish brown exterior of the fort in front, above you the cold blue sky. You are covered by the shadows of the pickets.
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The exterior of Fort Stanwix
a man in black and white framed in his glasses looks into the distance  

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On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the "Organic Act" creating the National Park Service, a new bureau in the Department of the Interior.
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