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Seneca County is located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census , the population was 33,814. [ 2 ] The primary county seat is Waterloo , moved there from the original county seat of Ovid in 1819.
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 ]
Geneva is in the Finger Lakes region, the largest wine-producing area in New York State. The Cayuga-Seneca Canal is part of the watershed of Keuka Lake . It flows north through Geneva, connecting to the Erie Canal , which was completed in 1825, giving access for the region to the Great Lakes and midwestern markets for their produce, as well as ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 50.4 square miles (131 km 2), all land. The southern town line is the border of Yates County. The town is located in the Finger Lakes region and is northwest of Seneca Lake. Conjoined U.S. Route 20 and New York State Route 5 pass across the town.
The Treaty of Big Tree was a formal treaty signed in 1797 between the Seneca Nation and the United States, in which the Seneca relinquished their rights to nearly all of their traditional homeland in New York State—nearly 3.5 million acres. [1]
The Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Mohawk, as allies of the British, were required to cede all their lands in New York State at the end of the war, as Britain ceded its territory in the Thirteen Colonies to the new United States. The late-war Seneca settlements were assigned to them as their reservations after the Revolutionary War, as part of ...
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 ...
Fayette is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States. The population was 3,617 at the 2020 census. [4] The town is in the north-central part of the county and is southeast of Geneva, New York. A post office is located in the Town of Fayette although the area is covered by four postal districts.