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Bill Jeffway

The Mystery of Dutchess County’s Chief Crow

April 13, 2016 by Bill Jeffway 2 Comments

chief crow burial groundA familiar blue 1935 New York State Education Department roadside marker proclaims, “Indian Burial Ground. Chief Crow and other Mohican Shacomecos of Moravian Faith buried here. Last burial about 1850.”

At first glance, the marker is not at all out of place. The sign is located in the hamlet of Jackson Corners on the Roeliff Jansen Kill, a 56-mile tributary of the Hudson River that is considered to have been populated by the Mohican. The hamlet is technically in Dutchess County’s town of Milan, but borders on Pine Plains, the location of Shacomeco village, and Columbia County’s Gallatin. [Read more…] about The Mystery of Dutchess County’s Chief Crow

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Black History, Dutchess County, Native American History

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