Carrying the Cable to Sackets Harbor
Watertown Daily Times February 9, 1880 A PATRIOTIC JOB OF 1834. Eighty-Four Men Carry Five Tons of Ship Cable on Their Shoulders from Sandy Creek to Sackets Harbor - Tho Story of One of the Surviving Participants. In Hough’s History of Jefferson County it is related that in the spring of 1814, the frigate Superior (66 guns) was launched, and Mohawk and Jones were on the stocks. The rigging and armament for these vessels were transported via the Mohawk river and Wood creek and so on to Oswego, at which point they were loaded in boats to proceed to Sackets Harbor. But a British fleet having stationed itself at the Galloo Islands, the boats were prevented from passing around Six Town Point. Accordingly, an attempt was made to ch the mouth of Stony Creek, from which point to Henderson Harbor a land carriage of only three miles intervened. But the boats were chased into Sandy Creek, where the guns, rig...