I was at work shelving some stuff in the travel section when I started to flip through a guide to upstate NY, Off the Beaten Path: NewYork, and found this bit of trivia:
Horseheads got its name in 1798 when settlers coming into the valley came upon the bleached skulls of pack horses left behind by General John Sullivan after his battle against the Six Nation of the Iroquois.
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