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Fonda is a village in and the county seat of Montgomery County, New York, United States. [2] The population was 795 at the 2010 census. The village is named after Douw Fonda, [3] a Dutch-American settler who was killed and scalped in 1780, during a Mohawk raid in the Revolutionary War, when the tribe was allied with the British.
Caughnawaga Indian Village Site (also known as the Veeder site) is an archaeological site located just west of Fonda in Montgomery County, New York.It is the location of a 17th-century Mohawk nation village.
Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 49,532. [2] The county seat is Fonda. [3] The county was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec.
Caughnawaga Indian Village Site, a village of the Mohawk nation inhabited from 1666 to 1693, now an archaeological site near the village of Fonda, New York; Caughnawaga, New York, a town in Montgomery County eliminated by subdivision in 1793; Caughnawaga Indians, Native Americans who converted to Christianity
Caughnawaga is a former town in then Tryon County, later Montgomery County, New York, United States. Caughnawaga is believed to be a Mohawk language word meaning "at the rapids", referring to the site along the Mohawk River. [1] It was the name of a Mohawk village nearby that was occupied from 1666 to 1693, when it was destroyed by French ...
Fonda – The Village of Fonda is the county seat, and is located on the north bank of the Mohawk River on NY Route 5. It is near the Caughnawaga Indian Village Site. Tribes Hill – A hamlet in the eastern part of the town on NY-5. Yosts – A hamlet on NY-5 and the north bank of the Mohawk River, west of Fonda.
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Walter Butler Homestead, also known as Butlersbury, is a historic home located near Fonda in Montgomery County, New York. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, 40-foot-long, 30-foot-wide, 18th-century farmhouse. It has a limestone block foundation and cellar and attic.