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  2. Seneca Village - Wikipedia

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    Seneca Village was a 19th-century settlement of mostly African American landowners in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, within what would become present-day Central Park. The settlement was located near the current Upper West Side neighborhood, approximately bounded by Central Park West and the axes of 82nd Street, 89th Street, and ...

  3. Before Yesterday We Could Fly - Wikipedia

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    The exhibition focuses on Seneca Village, a 19th-century settlement of mostly African American landowners in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. In 1857, city officials forced its residents out in order to construct Central Park, justifying its use of eminent domain with racist stereotypes. [2]

  4. Uncovering the history of Seneca Village in New York City - AOL

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    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 ...

  5. List of New York State Historic Markers in Ontario County ...

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    Farmington, Town Of, New York: 1832. Entrance Porch Added By Josephine Herendeen 1932 8: GANECHSTAGE On White Spring Rd. At The West Limits Of City. Geneva, City Of, New York: Site Of Seneca Village And Jesuit Mission For The Indians Established 1687 9: PREEMPTION LINE On Us 20 & Nys 5 At Western Edge Of The City Geneva, City Of, New York

  6. This New York Black Community Was Lost to History. Now the ...

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    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 ...

  7. Ganondagan State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    Ganondagan State Historic Site, (pronounced ga·NON·da·gan) also known as Boughton Hill, is a Native American historic site in Ontario County, New York in the United States. Location of the largest Seneca village of the 17th century, the site is in the present-day Town of Victor, southwest of the Village of Victor.

  8. Mary Jemison - Wikipedia

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    Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having ...

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