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By coincidence, the Preemption Line is near the meridian of the Capitol at Washington (77° 00' 33" W of Greenwich), but the popular assumption that the Preemption Line was intended to be on that meridian seems to be a myth, since the District of Columbia had not been surveyed at the time of the 1786 treaty; in fact Benjamin Ellicott helped map and survey the District of Columbia in 1791 ...
The line now divides the city of Geneva and the Town of Waterloo in Border City. The old preemption line reached Lake Ontario, three miles west of Sodus Bay. The new line terminated near the center of the head of the bay. The new preemption line traveled in a northeasterly direction from the west end of the southern boundary. [19]
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: Boundary Drawn Between Massachusetts And New York December 16, 1786 Cause Of Long Controversy In Western New York 10: SITE OF On Washington St.
Border City is a hamlet on the border of the City of Geneva in Ontario County and the Town of Waterloo in Seneca County, New York, United States, near SenecaIt dates back to 1788 when the Pre-Emption Line was drawn from the Pennsylvania border to Lake Ontario, thus creating Upstate New York.
The First Treaty of Buffalo Creek signed on July 8, 1788 Phelps and Gorham purchased title to lands east from the Genesee River in New York to the Preemption Line. [ 1 ] See also
Canandaigua city line in Canandaigua: Castle Road CR 6 at the Geneva city line in Geneva: CR 5: 4.89 7.87 NY 14A in Hall: Post Road in Seneca: US 20 / NY 5: CR 6: 17.45 28.08 Yates County line in Geneva (becomes CR 15) Old Pre-Emption Road Wayne County line in Phelps (becomes CR 338) CR 7: 5.69 9.16 CR 13 Slack Road in Manchester: Wayne County Line
New York State Route 14A (NY 14A) is a north–south state highway located in the Finger Lakes region of New York in the United States. It extends for 35.99 miles (57.92 km) from an interchange with NY 14 in the Schuyler County town of Reading to an intersection with U.S. Route 20 (US 20) and NY 5 west of the Ontario County city of Geneva.
The portion of the Military Tract north of Seneca Lake (i.e. townships of Galen and Junius) was divided by the New Preemption Line from land to its west assigned by the Treaty of Hartford of 1786 to Massachusetts. The tract immediately to the west became the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The west limit of most of the tract was Seneca Lake.