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===Native American use=== [[Image:Council Rock Otsego Lake.png|thumb|left|170px|Council Rock]] Before [[European colonization of the Americas|European colonization]], [[Iroquois]] Indians inhabited the area around the village and Otsego Lake. The name ''Otsego'' is from a [[Mohawk language|Mohawk]] or [[Oneida language|Oneida]] word meaning "place of the rock", referring to the large boulder near the lake's outlet,<ref name="Beauchamp_1907">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MBQTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA174|title=Aboriginal Place Names of New York (New York State Museum Bulletin, Volume 108)|last1=Beauchamp|first1=William Martin|date=1907|publisher=New York State Education Department|page=174|isbn=9781404751552|access-date=August 12, 2015}}</ref> today known as "Council Rock". It is a large boulder whose top is above the water's surface and can be seen from shore. It is believed to have been a meeting place for [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] prior to the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref name="Halsey_1901">{{cite book|last1=Halsey|first1=Francis Whiting|title=The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers, and Land Titles, 1614-1800|date=1901|publisher=C. Scribner's Sons|pages=[https://archive.org/details/oldnewyorkfront00halsgoog/page/n45 21]β23|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/oldnewyorkfront00halsgoog|access-date=August 30, 2015|chapter=Indian Villages in the Upper Valley}}</ref> A small parcel of land near Council Rock was presented to the Village of Cooperstown in 1957, on the condition that it remain open to the public as a park.<ref name="CoopersCounty">{{cite book|last1=MacDougall|first1=Hugh Cooke|title=Cooper's Otsego County: A Bicentennial Guide of Sites in Otsego County Associated with the Life and Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851|date=1989|publisher=New York State Historical Association|location=Cooperstown, NY|page=94|chapter-url=http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/cooperstownbooks/otsegocounty.html|access-date=August 30, 2015|chapter=Council Rock Park|archive-date=May 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509013308/http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/cooperstownbooks/otsegocounty.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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