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The south town line borders Schuyler County, New York, to the southwest and Tompkins County to the southeast and the east town line is defined by Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes. The town of Lodi is to the west and the town of Ovid is to the north. New York State Route 89 and New York State Route 96 are north–south highways in the town.
In 1817, Seneca County was reduced in size by combining portions of Seneca and the remainder of Cayuga County to form Tompkins County. Part of this territory, the current towns of Covert and Lodi, were returned to Seneca County in 1819. The original county seat of Seneca County was located in Ovid, where a court house was constructed in 1806.
The purchase of Seneca reservations at Caneadea, Big Tree, Squawky Hill, and Gardeau, along the Genesee river, together with parcels from the Buffalo Creek and Cattaraugus Reservations in 1826 by Thomas Ogden, Benjamin W. Rodgers, and Robert Troup incentivized further efforts to dispossess the Haudenosaunee nations.
The Town of Seneca Falls contains the former village also called Seneca Falls. The town is east of Geneva , New York , in the northern part of the Finger Lakes District. Seneca Falls is a historic location along a branch of the Erie Canal and is often referred to as the 'birthplace of women's rights', [ citation needed ] where the 1848 women's ...
A "District of Seneca" was created judicially in 1789 at the time the county was established, but its extent and subdivisions are not clearly known. The town was finally organized in 1793. In 1872, the northeast part of the town was used to form the Town of Geneva , taking with it most of the historic Seneca communities and sites.
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Seneca Falls is a hamlet and census-designated place in Seneca County, New York, United States. [4] The population was 6,681 at the 2010 census. [5] The 2020 census population of Seneca Falls CDP was 6,809. The hamlet is in the Town of Seneca Falls, east of Geneva. It was an incorporated village from 1831 to 2011.
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