Six Mile Point also known as Hickory Grove is a
geographic cape extending into
Otsego Lake in the Town of
Otsego north of
Cooperstown, New York
Cooperstown is a village in and the county seat of Otsego County, New York, United States. Most of the village lies within the town of Otsego, but some of the eastern part is in the town of Middlefield. Located at the foot of Otsego Lake in ...
. Six Mile Point is the location in ''
The Deerslayer
''The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path'' was James Fenimore Cooper's fifth and last novel published in 1841 in his '' Leatherstocking Tales''. Its 1740–1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of t ...
'' that Natty Bumppo makes an unsuccessful effort to escape from the Hurons.
Appearance in literature
Six Mile Point is mentioned in ''The Deerslayer''. After running south through the shallow waters along the shore for fifty yards,
Deerslayer was escaping the Hurons along the lake and began to move inland and climb the mountain, now known as
Red House Hill
Red House Hill is a mountain in the Central New York Region of the State of New York, United States. It is located south-southwest of the Hamlet of Springfield Center, New York, west of Hutter Point and Six Mile Point of Otsego Lake, and sout ...
. At the top of the hill he hid under a log, and the Hurons passed him thinking he was gone. He then noticed he was surrounded on three sides and ran down the hill towards the lake, passing through the few Hurons left at Six Mile Point. He then jumped in his canoe and was soon captured by the Hurons.
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Landforms of Otsego County, New York