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The history of Seneca Village was chronicled in a play staged by Kean University in 2015, The People Before the Park. [63] [103] The animated musical sitcom Central Park (2020) references Seneca Village in its first episode, with the ensemble referring to it as a "dark chapter" of the park's history. [104]
The Seneca established this village at least as early as 1687. [3] It was likely established by the former residents of Ganondagan, after its destruction by the French. [4] Around 1754, the Senecas moved north from the nearby New Ganechstage village (and prior to that, the White Springs village) to a settlement that would become known as ...
In 1656, Jesuit Father Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot traveled from the Cayuga nation to the Seneca nation. Then, "Having assembled all the Elders of Gandagan, the principal village of Sonnontouan [the Seneca], and having bestowed the presents that are usually given as tokens of alliance, he commenced in a fervent and loud tone to explain the principal truths of the Gospel, which he sealed with ...
When Central Park was being created in the mid-19th century, a settlement in the middle of Manhattan, home to the largest number of free Black property owners in New York before the Civil War, was ...
Seneca Village ProjectThe wooden boards of the new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art resemble the simplicity of the exterior of an Antebellum slave shack, though slightly more contemporary ...
The Met's location in Central Park is just east of where Seneca Village stood. The period room in the exhibit recreates the house of a fictional Seneca Village resident as it may have existed at the time, but also how their descendants may have lived in the present and future, as if the settlement had not been destroyed. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Seneca County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
Seneca oral history states that the tribe originated in a village called Nundawao, near the south end of Canandaigua Lake, at South Hill. [10] Close to South Hill stands the 865-foot-high (264 m) Bare Hill, known to the Seneca as Genundowa. [11] Bare Hill is part of the Bare Hill Unique Area, which began to be acquired by the state in 1989. [12]