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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. New York State Route 14A is a north-south highway in the town. New York State Route 245 is an east-west highway in the town. NY-14A and NY245 are briefly conjoined near the eastern town line.
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.
Seneca is a census-designated place (CDP) in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census , the CDP population was 1,010. This was a decline of 5.1% from the census conducted in 2010.
The three casinos (Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls, Seneca Allegany Casino in Salamanca and the controversial Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in Buffalo) are the only casinos that operate over all of Western New York as part of the agreement, for which the Senecas pay a portion of revenues to the state of New York (which, in turn, returns ...
New York: New York Public Library, 1948 Brigham, Clarence S. "Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820 Part VII: New York (A–L)." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 27 (1): 177–274. 1917
The Seneca mission survived in some form as late as 1885, when the missionary Morton F. Trippe wrote in a profile of the Seneca that the mission "comprise[d] five reservations—four in New York and one in Pennsylvania—with a total Indian population of 3,849, occupying 102 square miles or 65,338 acres, 21,890 of which are under cultivation."
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 ...
Under a New York state law created in 1821, African American men in the state could vote only if they had $250 worth of property and had lived in the state for at least three years. [ 13 ] [ 28 ] Owning property was a way to gain political power, and the purchase of land by Black people likely had a significant effect on their political engagement.