"the Boulder"

burial place of COPPERHEAD

at Houghton, NY

The surrounding hills of Houghton are rich in Native American and colonial history.  On campus, "the Boulder" marks the burial place of Copperhead, last of the Seneca's in the valley. Across the Genesee River stood tribal council houses now relocated in Letchworth State Part, 15 miles north.  During the 1850s the Genesee Valley Canal carried the commerce of western New York through Houghton, brining with it colorful river boatmen, "Jockey Street" horse fanciers and itinerant gamblers.  However, railroad construction twenty years later made the canal obsolete. (Houghton College Website)

"The Last One of

The Seneca Tribe of Indians

That Lived in the Town of

Caneadea, NY

Was Buried Here

His Wife died some Years

Before His Death

He died March 23, 1864

He said He was 120 Years Old"