Auriesville, New York | |
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  Auriesville, New York Location within the state of New York | |
| Coordinates: 42°55′46″N 74°18′59″W / 42.92944°N 74.31639°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Montgomery |
| Town | Glen |
| Elevation | 312 ft (95 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 12016 |
| Area code | 518 |
| GNIS feature ID | 942705[1] |
Auriesville is a hamlet in the northern part of New York state and west of Albany. It was the site of Ossernenon, a Mohawk village where French Jesuits established a mission. This operated 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.
Since the late 19th century, a Catholic tradition developed associating Auriesville with the site of the Mohawk village Ossernenon, where Jesuit missionaries were martyred in 1642 and 1646. The National Shrine of the North American Martyrs was built here in 1930 and has added to its grounds. But, according to Dean R. Snow and other late 20th-century archeologists specializing in Native American history, Ossernenon was located about 9 miles west on a tributary on the south side of the Mohawk River. Archeologists who have excavated there refer to it as the Bauder site.[2] The association of Auriesville with Ossernenon has not been supported by archeological evidence.[3][2]