put an end to this project for a canal.

On September 2, 1901, another generation of people assembled near the
outlet of the lake to witness the unveiling of a marker placed by Otsego
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Isabella Scott
Ernst, regent, to indicate the site and to commemorate the fame of
Clinton's dam.[55] The crowd approached the bank of the Susquehanna by
descending from River Street, where an arch of bunting had been erected.
A large float anchored near the western bank was trimmed with flags,
bunting, and vines. Directly across the river, on the eastern point of
the outlet, the newly erected marker was concealed beneath the folds of
an American flag. While a band played "The Stars and Stripes Forever,"
the spectators who lined the shore saw approaching from beneath the
green foliage down the river a canoe paddled by a young man who wore the
gay dress and war-paint of a Mohawk brave. Seated with him in the canoe
were two little girls, attired in patriotic colors. The three in the
canoe were lineal descendants of Revolutionary stock. The young girls
were Jennie Ordelia Mason and Fannie May Converse, both descendants of
James Parshall, an orderly sergeant who was present at the building of
the dam in 1779. The Indian was impersonated by F. Hamilton McGown, a
descendant of John Parshall, private, a brother of James Parshall. The
canoe was paddled close to the eastern shore, and the three occupants
drew aside the flag which concealed the marker, amid the applause of the
spectators assembled on the banks. The trio in the canoe then drifted
back down the river, and were soon lost to view beyond the overhanging
branches.

[Illustration: SITE OF CLINTON'S DAM]

The marker is a large boulder placed a few feet from the eastern bank of
the river at the very outlet of the lake. Surmounting the rock is a
ten-inch siege mortar thirty inches in length and weighing 1971 pounds,
which did service at Fort Foote, Maryland, during the Civil War. On the
western side of the boulder is a bronze tablet marked by the insignia of
the Daughters of the American Revolution, and bearing this inscription:

HERE WAS BUILT A DAM THE SUMMER
OF 1779 BY THE SOLDIERS UNDER GEN.
CLINTON TO ENABLE THEM TO JOIN
THE FORCES OF GEN. SULLIVAN
AT TIOGA.

Four years after Clinton's troops had made their famous journey down the
Susquehanna, the site of Cooperstown was visited by the most
distinguished