🛑 Auriesville, New York

Auriesville is a hamlet in the northern part of New York State, 41 miles west of Albany, the state capital. Catholic tradition holds that it was the site of Ossernenon, a Mohawk village where French Jesuits operated a mission from 1667 until 1684, when the Mohawk destroyed it as part of continuing confrontations with French colonists. Auries is said to have been the name of the last Mohawk known to have lived there. Later settlers named the village after him.