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Honeoye Valley

 
 
Honeoye Valley Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Yugoboy, July 24, 2012
1. Honeoye Valley Marker
Inscription. Three Indian tribes have hunted, fished and tilled the soil here for thousands of years.
 
Erected 1932 by State Education Department.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Indigenous Peoples and Communities.
 
Location. 42° 58.599′ N, 77° 41.904′ W. Marker is in West Rush, New York, in Monroe County. It is at the intersection of Rush-West Rush Road and Creekside Drive, on the left when traveling east on Rush-West Rush Road. This marker is visible from East River Road as well. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Rush NY 14543, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York, specifically in Western New York, in the Finger Lakes, and in the Rochester Metropolitan Area. It is also in the American Northeast, on the Great Lakes, and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, New Netherland, and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Genesee Valley Greenway (approx. 1.8 miles away); Baptist Colony (approx. 2.2 miles away); Cox Ferry (approx. 2.6 miles away); Early House (approx. 2.6 miles away); Rush Civil War Monument (approx. 2.9 miles away); Rush World War I Memorial (approx. 2.9 miles away); American Revolution War/War of 1812 (approx. 2.9 miles away); World War II Veterans (approx. 2.9 miles away).
 
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Honeoye Valley Marker as seen facing east on Rush-West Rush Rd. image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Yugoboy, July 24, 2012
2. Honeoye Valley Marker as seen facing east on Rush-West Rush Rd.
Honeoye Valley Marker as seen facing west on Rush-West Rush Rd. image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Yugoboy, July 24, 2012
3. Honeoye Valley Marker as seen facing west on Rush-West Rush Rd.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on August 2, 2012, by Yugoboy of Rochester, New York. This page has been viewed 651 times since then and 16 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on August 2, 2012, by Yugoboy of Rochester, New York. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
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