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{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Boughton Hill
| nrhp_type = nhl
| image = Ganondagan-house.jpg
| caption = Ganondagan Long House
| location = [[Victor (town), New York|Victor]], [[New York (state)|NY]]
| area = 
| locmapin = New York
| coordinates = {{coord|42|57|40.16|N|77|24|45.85|W|display=inline,title}}
| built = 1670
| architect = 
| architecture = 
| designated_nrhp_type = July 19, 1964<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=402&ResourceType=Site|title=Boughton Hill (Gannagaro)|date=2007-09-11|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214112658/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=402&ResourceType=Site|archive-date=2007-12-14}}</ref>
| added = October 15, 1966<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref>
| refnum = 66000559
}}

'''Ganondagan State Historic Site''' or '''Boughton Hill''' is a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] historic site in [[Ontario County, New York]]. The site has two main sections. The first section now includes burials and a large bark longhouse. It is a [[National Historic Landmark|National Historic Site]]. The other section includes fortified storage for [[Grain|grains]] at Fort Hill. This section is a [[National Register of Historic Places]]. There are also several trails.<ref>Kennedy, Frances H.. American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook. United States: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008, p. 39-40. </ref> Ganondagan was the largest village of the [[Seneca people]]. There were about 150 longhouses in this village. The city was part of the western gateway of the [[Iroquois|Iroquois Confederacy]]. The town Ganondagan is called the "Town of Peace". There is a burial site of [[Jigonhsasee]]. She was one of the founders of the Iroquois Confederacy. [[Marquis de Denonville]] destroyed the town in 1687.<ref>Strand, Ginger. Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies. United Kingdom: Simon & Schuster, 2008, p. 19-20. </ref> 

== Related pages ==

* [[Seneca people]] 
* [[Jigonhsasee]] 
* [[New York (state)]]
* [[Iroquois|Iroquois Confederacy]] 
* [[Northeastern Woodlands]]

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