Onenioteke

Onenioteke, the place of the standing stone, lies in Oneida country south of Lake Oneida. Nearby stood Kanonwalohale, known to settlers as Oneida Castle, a major village on Oneida Creek. By 1765 it had become the principal Oneida village, with more than seventy houses and over seven hundred inhabitants.

During the American Revolution the Oneida supported the American cause, and the village became a centre of that alliance. The missionary Samuel Kirkland and the Oneida war chief Skenando were among those who lived there. In 1780 a force led by the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant attacked and destroyed it. Its inhabitants later rebuilt the settlement after the war, though the Oneida faced mounting pressure on their lands from the expanding United States.