If you are talking about Round Top Mt in the Catskills, about 30 years ago
there was one of the state blue and gold historical signs on the main road.
A lot of those signs have disappeared, so it may be gone by now.

Eleanor Preston, Tully Area Historical Society.

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From: "David Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: Alleged "Stronghold" on Roundtop Mountain


>      Several months ago I received an inquiry from someone asking if I had
> any maps showing an alleged British fort on Roundtop Mountain.  I couldn't
> find any evidence of such a fort, and was inclined to dismiss the idea as
> improbable.  In the most recent issue of the NYS Conservationist, Edward
> Henry in an article on "The Mountain Island" provides a succinct summary
of
> what must be a fairly widespread story.  I still find it hard to imagine
> the British or anyone else building a fort on top of an isolated mountain
> during the Revolutionary War, and suspect that the story is one of those
> myths that became installed in our local histories during the nineteenth
> century.  Does anyone on the list know anything for certain about this
> alleged stronghold--either contemporary evidence confirming its existence,
> or an indication of how the story got into circulation?
>
> Here is Henry's version of the story:
>
>      "During the Revolutionary war, the British and their Iroquois allies
> used the mountain as a lookout to spy upon the movements of the rebelling
> colonists in the Hudson Valley.  Prisoners being moved west to British
> strongholds were often moved through the Catskills, which were mostly
> populated by loyalists, and the British built a small fort between
> Kaaterskill High Peak and Roundtop.  Many captured rebels were held
> overnight at the mountain outpost.  Small sections of the stronghold's
> foundation remain visible even today."
>