From Rootsweb Ancestry.com.
Besides the arsenal, there are two graves and a monument at the top of the West Seneca Turnpike Hill.
One is the grave of Captain Benjamin Brand of the U.S. Light Artillery who died October 14, 1813, in Onondaga Hollow as his company was marching through the village. He was from Virginia.
The other grave is that of Captain Henry Crouch who died in the spring of 1814.
I'm going to have to do some research on this Seneca Turnpike because of its 1812 connection, plus I am a big old road fan. Before these recent articles, I'd never heard of it.
I didn't read anything about a War of 1812 monument of the hill, however.
Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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