Warn Pond, in the Town of Oxford, lies between the Chenango River and State Route 12, about 1.9 straight-line miles south of the South Oxford Bridge. It is also called Warn Lake. It can be seen from Twin Bridges Road during the leafless seasons.
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Warn Pond was the site where Thick Neck was caught and murdered by his fellow Indians. The story is reported by Clark (1).
Surface artifacts from this area were collected by Fred Stevens during the 1950s and were donated to the Oxford Historical Society in 2003. They range from 3000 BC to 1000 AD (2).
The kettle-kame landscape around Warn Pond is a legacy of the glacier. I suspect that Warn Pond was a kettlehole bog. All this property is privately owned, so it is not readily accessible to exploration.
A site with four stone piles sits about three-quarter mile true north of Warn Pond, on a hill about 300 feet higher. The photo below shows the view. Warn Pond is behind those trees.
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References cited:
1. Clark, Hiram C. History of Chenango County ... Norwich, NY: Thompson & Pratt. 1850. Page 13.
2. Stevens, Fred. The Warn Pond sites ... Unpublished file. 2003.
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