Built 1856-57 by the Genesee Valley RR to span the Conesus Outlet. The 200 ft. long x 12 ft. wide limestone bridge was part of the Rochester-Avon-Geneseo-Mt. Morris Line. Avon became a RR hub connecting Buffalo-Rochester-Corning-Hornell. The line . . . — — Map (db m58050) HM
Albert Burke served as Avon town
supervisor, downtown merchant,
World War II veteran, and was a
dedicated husband and father to
nine children. for over 40 years.
He lived and worked "on the
circle at Park Place, as an active
member of the . . . — — Map (db m146489) HM
In the winter of 1865, the Soldiers' Monument Association of Avon was formed with Calvin Knowles, president, John Marsh, secretary, Stephen Hosmer, treasurer. Their purpose was to raise sufficient funds to erect a memorial
that recognized the . . . — — Map (db m145705) HM
John Hubbard Forsyth
born August 10, 1797,
John farmed this land with his father.
After his wife, Deborah, died in 1828,
he left his family in New York
traveling to Kentucky where he joined a
cavalry unit. Later he became a Captain in . . . — — Map (db m125491) HM
Gilbert's Mill built by Thomas Hanna 1808. Rebuilt 1826, sold to CS Gilbert 1855 converted to a dwelling 1954. Also a school, blacksmith, store and distillery. — — Map (db m158913) HM
Farming & industrial community dating from 1800 with a school, blacksmith, grange hall, factories & mills. Chadwick Tavern built 1830. — — Map (db m58049) HM
Organized 1803 as town of Southampton; name changed to Caledonia 1806; Scottish emigrants settled 1799 Village incorporated 1891 — — Map (db m58020) HM
Organized 1803 as town of Southampton; name changed to Caledonia 1806; Scottish emigrants settled 1799 Village incorporated 1891 — — Map (db m58246) HM
In memory of a soldier
of the War of 1812
buried here 1814
My brave lad he sleeps
In his faded coat of blue
In his lonely grave unknown
Lies the heart that beat so true — — Map (db m58244) WM
1817 Seth Green 1888 Father of fish culture in America. World-famed pioneer in conservation, in 1837 devised and here in 1864 developed the artificial propagation of fish. — — Map (db m117022) HM
Conesus Amusement Hall 1888 This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. Built by Conesus Stockholders. — — Map (db m116982) HM
Gravesite ← of Captain Daniel Shays 1747 - 1825 Captain Shays served with the Continental Army, and was the leader of Shays' Rebellion in Massachusetts. Shays' Rebellion had a lasting effect on the framing of our Country's Constitution, . . . — — Map (db m116983) HM
Kelleman Log Cabin 1816 This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. Moved from lot #90 - Route 255. — — Map (db m116979) HM
Routes of the Armies of General John Sullivan and General James Clinton 1779. An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggressions of the English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania, extending westward . . . — — Map (db m218832) HM
or Little Beard's Town
De-O-Nun-Da-Ga-A
(Where the Hill is Near)
This principal village of the Senecas was destroyed in 1779 and was the farthest point reached by General John Sullivan and an army of four thousand men acting under direct . . . — — Map (db m58056) HM
Routes of the Armies
of General John Sullivan and General James Clinton 1779
An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggressions of the English and Indians of the frontier of New York and Pennsylvania, extending westward . . . — — Map (db m58058) HM
Jointly recognize this significant tree in the bicentennial year as having lived here during the American Revolutionary Period.
1776-1976 — — Map (db m58055) HM
This wayside shrine marks the place
where on September 14, 1779 two young soldiers of the Revolution Lieutenant Thomas Boys and Sergeant Michael Parker met death undaunted in the line of duty after lingering torture.
They marked with their blood . . . — — Map (db m58057) HM
Dalton RR Depot
Established here ca. 1852 as Nunda Station.
Changed to Dalton in 1880. Closed in 1959 and razed in 1966.
Part of the Erie Railroad. — — Map (db m151153) HM
Settled 1819 by Luther Bisbee
Born 1762 - Died 1856
Soldier in the American
Revolution from Massachusetts
Site 1st house 1 mile south — — Map (db m152683) HM
Given to Clara Barton, Chapter No. 1 of the American National Red Cross, in memory of Emma Hartman Noyes, a charter member of this chapter, by her children Nicholas H. Noyes, Jansen Noyes, and Katherine E. Noyes, December 28, 1949. — — Map (db m198737) HM
(front)
From
Fort Sumpter
to
Appomattox
G.A.R.
(right)
1861
Let us have Peace
Grant
1865
Fraternity
(rear)
With malice
towards none,
with charity
for all.
Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m75797) WM
[center]
Dansville Honors Its Veterans of All Wars. In the glory of their youth, we shall remember them.
[left]
Dansville Area Honors Its Heroes. In loving tribute and grateful appreciation to all Dansville area military men and . . . — — Map (db m76052) WM
Revolutionary War veteran
Nathaniel Porter buried 1797.
Some early residents
still interred here after
headstones removed in 19th c. — — Map (db m133064) HM
Elias H. Geiger
1819-1895. Built this home
in 1871. Orphaned at age 7.
Became a carpenter, farmer,
owner of steam sawmills
and large tracts of land. — — Map (db m151739) HM
of Luther Bisbee II and his
wife, Eliza West. Descendants
of Thomas Besbidge and
Francis West, freemen of
Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
1637-1670 — — Map (db m158649) HM
Indian cabin
nearby is the site of the
last cabin in this town,
occupied by the Senecas,
before their removal to the
Buffalo reservation, 1826 — — Map (db m100019) HM
Ossian District 2 est. here
ca. 1824. Closed ca. 1933.
Gordon Wilson, trustee,
ca. 1928-1932. Later chaired
County Board of Supervisors. — — Map (db m132678) HM
Route of New York and Erie
telegraph line constructed
in 1848, under the
supervision of Ezra Cornell
founder of Cornell University — — Map (db m152690) HM
Genesee Valley Canal port. Named for Wells Fowler, the first settler and postmaster 1816. Canal Warehouses and tavern called Spencerville. — — Map (db m58637) HM
A quarter mi. east of this
site, Senecas & their British
allies ambushed a scouting
party killing 14 Continental
Soldiers on Sept. 13, 1779 — — Map (db m158559) HM WM
In early days this was the home of banker Allen Ayrault and his wife Bethia. The Ayraults, promoters of business, civic, cultural and religious interests in the Valley, built this mansion in 1833 and called it "Big Tree Lodge". It was enlarged for . . . — — Map (db m58054) HM
Brevet Major General James S. Wadsworth, October 1807 - May 1864. Mortally wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness. He believed in the Union, Emancipation, and the Genesee Valley, and for those he gave his life. — — Map (db m117013) WM
Cobblestone School ——·•·—— Built in 1838, this was the school house for Geneseo District No. 5 for nearly a century. In 1932 the building became the Livingston County Museum. The land was given by the Pioneer . . . — — Map (db m117009) HM
Original structure built on this site ca. 1822. New front section built 1898 designed by noted architect Claude Fayette Bragdon. — — Map (db m182834) HM
Built in 1830, the Livingston County Bank was the first bank in Livingston County.
Allen Ayrault of Big Tree Lodge was President until 1855.
From 1887 to 1983 the building served as the Geneseo Post Office.
Erected 1995 — — Map (db m158751) HM
History of Mining In The Genesee Valley
Rock Salt mining began in 1884, in Retsof NY, with the building of Empire Salt Company, which changed to Retsof Mining Company in 1885. The Sterling Mining Co, in Cuylerville, NY was built in 1890. The Gray . . . — — Map (db m158413) HM
Home of Nicholas Shaw Fraser and Eleanor Shaw Smith ca. 1910-1948. Held offices in state and national women's suffrage organizations. — — Map (db m142147) HM
Site of Camp Union ——·•·—— In a regimental camp near this spot, more than 700 men from this Valley were trained for Civil War service under the direction of Col. John Rorbach of Geneseo. They became Companies A-G of . . . — — Map (db m117008) HM
Geneseo's first church building occupied this site, facing the Village Square, from 1818 until 1884. This Presbyterian Church, known as "The White Church", contained in its tower a four-sided town clock, also a good bell, paid for in wool by Pioneer . . . — — Map (db m58053) HM
Site of Original Wadsworth Cabin ——·•·—— The Pioneer Wadsworth Brothers, James and William, arrived from Connecticut, June 10, 1790, and became Geneseo's first permanent settlers. The original dwelling of the . . . — — Map (db m117012) HM
Temple Hill ——·•·—— This area so called because Geneseo's earliest house of worship was here (1810). On this ridge was the first Livington County High School (1826), which later became Temple Hill Academy. Temple . . . — — Map (db m117007) HM
About 1/4 mile west ➵
Treaty of
Big Tree
Site of memorable treaty
releasing Seneca title to
3,600,000 acres of land
September 15, 1797 — — Map (db m161692) HM
This Village Park is the site of the original settlement of Geneseo. When the pioneer settlers, James and William Wadsworth, came from Connecticut in 1790, the village which they founded was laid out with this plot as a typical New England "Village . . . — — Map (db m58051) HM
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Thomas Boyd and Sergt. Michael Parker who were captured and afterward tortured and killed. ——————— Afar their bones may lie, but here their patriot blood baptized the . . . — — Map (db m117006) HM WM
Groveland Ambuscade Park During the Clinton-Sullivan Campaign in September 1779, Lt. Thomas Boyd's scouting party was ambushed by Tories and Indians on this site. Sixteen Revolutionary War soldiers died here. Revolutionary War Heritage Trail . . . — — Map (db m117005) HM
Sparta First Presbyterian Church
has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 by the
United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m150372) HM
In Honor Of
Those From Hemlock
Who Served In World War II
And
In Memory Of
Those Who Gave Their Lives
Claude Abbey
Carl A. Drain
Elbert L. Knapp — — Map (db m142150) WM
An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggressions of the English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania extending westward the dominion of the United States. — — Map (db m168896) HM
By 1848, hamlet included boat repair, warehouses & homes. Goods & passengers transported daily on Genesee Valley Canal to Rochester ca. 1840-1878. — — Map (db m212424) HM
In memory of those men and women from the towm of Leicaster New York who served and those who made the supreme sacrifice in the service of our country — — Map (db m87769) WM
Canal port ca. 1846-1878. Stored & shipped grains, coal, apples, water lime & salt on Genesee Valley Canal to Rochester and Erie Canal. — — Map (db m212426) HM
Site of Country School Dist #2
“Goose Hollow” 1852 – 1945
Erected in Memory
of and by Former
Teachers & Students
Dedicated July 4, 1991 — — Map (db m204731) HM
Near this site Catholic missionaries erected houses of worship in the westernmost Seneca villages of the Iroquois Confederacy.
The Chapel of La Conception was built in 1668 at Totiakton (near Rochester Junction) St. Jean Chapel was erected in 1669 . . . — — Map (db m58092) HM
Historic Lima - Settled 1788 A 17th-Century Iroquois Village Nearly 400 years ago, a thriving Seneca Iroquois village sat on the ridge just west of here. Set in the midst of a clearing in the endless forest, this densely packed village, and . . . — — Map (db m116970) HM
"At the forks of the trail"
Name recorded 1634. Destroyed by Denonville's French Army 1687. Site also of Father Garnier's Chapel of St. Jean. — — Map (db m58069) HM
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary Founded 1832. Genesee College established 1849 and on April 14, 1869 was allowed to remove to form Syracuse University. — — Map (db m116969) HM
Historic Lima, Settled 1788 History and Architecture The earliest settlers began coming in 1788 to carve out homesteads, after having seen and admired the beautiful “Genesee Country” during the Sullivan campaign against the . . . — — Map (db m116968) HM
Born May 18, 1900 in Lima. One of America's greatest patriots. Veteran of World War I & II, Congressman, Senator and U.S. Ambassador. — — Map (db m210593) HM
Lima Bank Robbed This vault was in the "Bank of Lima" at the time of the first bank robbery in Livingston County. February 6, 1915. — — Map (db m116961) HM
The first fire company in Livingston County, formed in 1830. Reorganized; 1876 as Centennial Fire Dept., in 1927 as Lima Fire Dept. — — Map (db m58070) HM
Mark Lodge formed at Lima 1809. Union Lodge chartered June 11, 1816. New Masonic Hall at four corners 1866.
"Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set." — — Map (db m58068) HM
