To the east was once the Seneca Indian village
Da-Yo-It-Ga-O
"Valley begins to widen"
[Locations highlighted on the map:]
Area of spring used by Mary Jemison White Woman of the Genesee
Former location of Buffalo . . . — — Map (db m159609) HM
This sign is part of the Letchworth State Park CCC Legacy Pathway honoring the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933–1942), a federal works project designed to relieve unemployment and conserve natural resources during the Great Depression.
Five . . . — — Map (db m179385) HM
Working Before Its Time On November 25, 1950 storm clouds covered the sky and heavy rains fell causing the water to rise in the upper Genesee River. Severe flooding inundated upstream towns and villages. Many families were rescued from their . . . — — Map (db m143300) HM
John W. Powell rank of Maj. - fought in Civil War, led first Grand Canyon Exped. in 1869 - helped start U.S. Geological Society & Nat. Geographic Society. — — Map (db m87707) HM
John Wesley Powell was born in Mount Morris, New York, 1834, the son of Joseph and Mary Powell. His father, a poor itinerant preacher, had emigrated to the U.S. from Shrewsbury, England, in 1830. His family moved westward to Jackson, Ohio, then . . . — — Map (db m205966) HM
Mary S. Howell Mary Seymour Howell 1844-1913. Spoke nationally for equal sufferage. Wrote the full sufferage bill that NYS assembly passed in 1892. — — Map (db m87719) HM
Dedicated to the men and women employed by the Mount Morris Dam Builders and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District 1948-1952
Under the Flood Control Act of 1944, the United States Congress authorized the construction of a dam . . . — — Map (db m143298) HM
In reaction to the severe flooding that occurred almost every seven years in the Genesee Valley since the 1800s, Congress authorized the Mount Morris Dam project under the Flood Control Act of 1944. Completed in 1952 by the United States Army Corps . . . — — Map (db m143296) HM
Ancestral land of the Seneca, J. R. Murray built mansion on hill ca. 1839. NYS TB Hospital built 1936. County acquired site for gov't offices 1971. — — Map (db m181999) HM
The 150 mile-long Genesee River rises in Pennsylvania and flows northward into Lake Ontario. Though relatively a small stream, except in flood stages, it has cut, in its middle portion, a deep gorge with walls rising 600 feet above foaming waters. . . . — — Map (db m56842) HM
(left panel) Looking Left – Upstream A Dry Dam… A Protected River Why is there no reservoir upstream of the dam? The Genesee River Basin provides beautiful scenic, natural, recreational, cultural, geological and ecological . . . — — Map (db m143299) HM
Mount Morris Dam was built to provide flood protection to the farm lands, residential areas, and commercial and industrial development in the Genesee River Valley from the dam site north through Metropolitan Rochester to Lake Ontario. Prior to its . . . — — Map (db m143297) HM
