Still others, like Kane's Store, teetered on the edge of oblivion, at risk of never being found nor remembered. Archeological sites can be, of course, sources of information. But they can also be monuments, in two meanings of the word. First, like historic monuments they immortalize, in a visual way, the importance of a place. They trigger our collective memory, and by remembering, we perpetuate the knowledge of what was once here that now is gone.
Historic markers point to historic landscapes where the past is preserved.
In that fashion, they point to the future and to new beginnings as much as to the past and what has already been completed. It is in this spirit of new beginnings that this rich heritage of archeological resources in and around Canajoharie is presented here. The New York State Museum is a program of the NYS Education Department .