Coreorgonel was an 18th-century Native American village in what is now

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. The name has been translated as "Where we keep the pipe of peace." In the mid 18th century, a group of

Tutelo The Tutelo (also Totero, Totteroy, Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) were Native American people living above the Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia. They spoke a dialect of the Siouan Tutelo language thought to be similar to that of th ...

, a

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-speaking people, migrated north from their homelands in

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to seek the protection of their former enemies, the

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(Iroquois). The Cayuga adopted the Tutelo and a related tribe, the Saponi, in 1753. The Tutelo built the village of Coreorgonel with about 25 to 30 homes, near the present-day junction of state routes 13 and 13A along the

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, just south of Ithaca. In 1779, a detachment of the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition under Colonel

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, tasked with wiping out Native opposition to the

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, burned the village and displaced the inhabitants. Many of the survivors fled north to Canada with the Cayuga. The site is now the location of Ithaca's Tutelo Park.

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Burning of Coreorgonel by Colonel Dearborn, September 24, 1779
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