Geneseo (town), New York
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The Bear Fountain sits in the center of Geneseo village's main street. In this picture, it is decorated with flags for Memorial Day.
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 Geneseo
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| Coordinates: 42°47′45″N 77°48′49″W / 42.79583°N 77.81361°WCoordinates: 42°47′45″N 77°48′49″W / 42.79583°N 77.81361°W | |
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 New York
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| County | Livingston |
| Town established | 1789 |
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| • Type | Town Council |
| • Town Supervisor | William S. Wadsworth (R) |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 45.2 sq mi (117.1 km2) |
| • Land | 44.0 sq mi (113.9 km2) |
| • Water | 1.2 sq mi (3.2 km2) |
| Elevation | 909 ft (277 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 9,654 |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 14454 |
| Area code(s) | 585 |
| FIPS code | 36-28618 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0978991 |
| Website | GeneseoNY.org |
Geneseo /ˌdʒɛnᵻˈsiːoʊ/ 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 population was 10,483 at the 2010 census. The town and surrounding 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 within the town's western 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 largestSeneca village, Chenussio, and a center of power for the Iroquois Confederacy. It was also the Confederacy's "bread basket", with orchards, vineyards, and fields of maize and vegetables.
During the American Revolution, the Seneca joined the British and the Tories against the colonists who were fighting for independence. The alliance's raids from the west was a major threat to the American cause, and General Washington sent the Sullivan Expedition to neutralize the Iroquois. 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. When Sullivan's troops arrived and found the savagely mutilated bodies, they became enraged and destroyed anything that could support the Iroquois. No longer able to raid from Geneseo and the surrounding 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.
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