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Old 07-05-17 | 08:52 PM
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Crepes Suzette! Who knew? I know the one you refer to, marking the former international border between New England and New Netherlands. It's cool, the sweep of history.

IIRC the NYS program to erect these ended in 1966 and I believe they are no longer maintained by NYS either. New ones, again IIRC, can be ordered by private individuals or organizations to the original spec, but must be paid for privately. It looks like the celebrity chef marker was funded, like the one on Colonial, by a Pomeroy foundation.

Memories jogged, I looked online for the "bee sting" one, but there is no comprehensive data base listing all of these markers. There are (often incomplete) county by county databases. The "bee sting" marker, I remember, was close to the one in Yates Co. south of Branchport marking the site of the childhood home of Red Jacket, the Seneca Indian leader.

Lots of Revolutionary/Native American sites in the Finger Lakes area where I have ridden a lot, and I can now (partially) blame you for reviving a hankering to ride those green hills again. This marker was in Geneva NY; a large Seneca burial mound. God knows how many people are under my bike there. There was another burial/village site that stuck in my mind, on the shore of Cayuga Lake somewhere near Aurora. It was a beautiful yet such a lonely and almost haunted-seeming place it gave me chills and I didn't even take a picture.
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