Geneseo, New York Geneseo The Bear Fountain sits in the center of Geneseo village's chief street.
The Bear Fountain sits in the center of Geneseo village's chief street.
Geneseo is positioned in New York Geneseo - Geneseo Location inside the state of New York State New York Geneseo / d n si o / is a town in Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States on the far south end of the five-county Rochester Metropolitan Area.
The town and encircling area is quite rural.
The English name "Geneseo" is an anglicization of the Iroquois name for the earlier Iroquois town there, Gen-nis-he-yo (which means "beautiful valley"). A village of the same name lies inside the town's portion.
The town is known today mainly as the home of the highly selective State University of New York at Geneseo.
Near Geneseo was the largest[clarification needed] Seneca village, Chenussio, and a center of power for the Iroquois Confederacy.
As Sullivan's army approached Geneseo with their "scorched earth" policy, the Senecas repeatedly fell back.
However, a large Seneca party ambushed one of Sullivan's scouting parties, carried them as prisoners to Geneseo and tortured them to death.
No longer able to raid from Geneseo and the encircling area, about 5,000 Seneca fled to British-held Fort Niagara, where they spent one of the coldest winters on record, with much loss of life, in camps outside the fort with only the small amount of supplies the British could spare.
The town was established in 1789, before the formation of Livingston County.
The settlement of Geneseo by the colonists began shortly after the arrival of James and William Wadsworth in 1790.
The Wadsworths were participants in the negotiations of the Treaty of Big Tree between Robert Morris and the Senecas at the site of Geneseo in 1797.
Geneseo, as well as close-by Mount Morris, was part of The Morris Reserve Morris held back from his sale of much of New York to the Holland Land Company.
Geneseo was the place of birth of Eliza Emily Chappell Porter in 1807, who was a nurse, teacher, school builder, and underground barns operative amid the Civil War.
Geneseo was also the birthplace, in 1851, of the swindler Ferdinand Ward.
The village of Geneseo became the governmental center of county of Livingston County in 1821 and was incorporated in 1832.
The State Normal School, now the SUNY Geneseo, opened in 1871.
A portion of the village was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior in 1991.
The Doty building, which was purchased and renovated for usage by SUNY Geneseo, was once Geneseo's high school.
A P-51 Mustang at the 2007 Geneseo Airshow.
The valley of the Genesee is wide and fertile, with some of the best agricultural territory in New York, but it was very apt to flooding, and Geneseo suffered a several bad floods until the United States Army Corps of Engineers' assembly of the Mount Morris Dam upstream of the improve in the 1950s. Agriculture is now a large contributor to Geneseo's economy.
Geneseo is also used by many as a bedroom improve for jobs in close-by Rochester.
The village of Geneseo is governed by a mayor and four trustees.
The town can be roughly divided into three geographies: the village has a small-town atmosphere, much of Route 20 - A is heavily commercialized, and the majority of the town's region is farmland.
The Geneseo Airport (D52) is a general aviation airport west of the village, on the Wadsworth farm.
The Association for the Preservation of Geneseo (APOG) is a civic organization dedicated to preserving, improving, and restoring the places of civic, architectural, and historic interest to Geneseo and to educate members of the improve to their architectural and historical heritage.
The Geneseo Central School District encompasses Geneseo and Groveland, and consists of Geneseo Central School, which graduates approximately 75 students each year. The school was on Temple Hill in the village of Geneseo from about 1830 to 1871 when it moved to School Street in part of the Normal School.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has an region of 45.2 square miles (117.1 km ), of which, 44.0 square miles (113.9 km ) of it is territory and 1.2 square miles (3.2 km ) of it (2.74%) is water.
The Genesee River defines the town line, and Conesus Lake defines the easterly town line.
Route 20 - A pass through the town, along with State Routes 39, 63, and 256.
Geneseo has a mild climate; summers typically bring temperatures between 60 80 F (16 27 C), while winters average 15 35 F ( 9 2 C).
Climate data for Geneseo, New York The town includes a number of hamlets on the shore of Conesus Lake.
Part of the east side of Conesus Lake as seen from Geneseo's Long Point Park.
Sturges Hall is SUNY Geneseo's landmark building.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,654 citizens , 2,523 homeholds, and 1,303 families residing in the town.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 93.91% White, 1.48% African American, 0.11% Native American, 2.61% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.69% from other competitions, and 1.15% from two or more competitions.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 11.9% under the age of 18, 51.3% from 18 to 24, 15.2% from 25 to 44, 13.2% from 45 to 64, and 8.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $40,660, and the median income for a family was $62,206.
The Village of Geneseo Board of Trustees.
The Village of Geneseo.
The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States.
Around Geneseo.
"Geneseo Airport".
Association for the Preservation of Geneseo.
Geneseo Central School District.
"Monthly Averages for Geneseo, NY".
"Town of Geneseo Map".
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