<-FORT FREY as Grider drew it in 1886. The original Frey property was a log dwelling with a trading post. The stone structure that replaced it was used as a fort during the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars; it had loopholes but was never attacked.

->FORT WAGNER was the home of a Palatine, John Peter Wagner, who came to the Mohawk Valley after residing in the Hudson and Schoharie Valleys. His son John Peter Wagner, II, a lieutenant colonel, fought in the Battle of Oriskany with three of his sons.

<-Johannes Klock, another Palatine, built FORT KLOCK with its massive stone walls in 1750. When Rufus Grider sketched it in 1886, he carefully reproduced the names inscribed on the structure. Grider also drew pictures of Iroquois masks, belts and other Indian objects and made an extensive collection of copies of engravings on powder horns.

<- Colonel John Butler (1725-1796). Metropolitan Toronto Library Board.

-> When Rufus Grider prepared this view of BUTLERSBURY in 1886, an enclosed porch and a small opening near it had been added after the Butlers' occupancy.

-> Captain Walter Butler (1753-1781), a portrait painted by Charles B. Briggs based on available information about the subject's uniform and appearance.

Mohawk Valley in The Revolution