Herkimer Street is named after Nicholas Herkimer (born in German Flatts in the Mohawk Valley region of New York about 1728; died August 16, 1777), who was a militia general in the American Revolutionary War.
Herkimer defended against an attack on German Flatts in 1757 during the French and Indian War, and he was named captain in the militia the following year, when he repelled a second attack on German Flatts.
Herkimer had a house in Little Falls, New York, at which he kept a large number of slaves.
[In the painting here, Herkimer, wounded, is the one pointing. But his wound, shown in this painting in his left leg, was actually in his right leg.]
