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| | The History of New York State, Book VII, Chapter VI |
 | | Branches of the Tioga, Canisteo, Cohocton and Chemung rivers drain the region and served as highways for the pioneers. |
 | | Much of the town is in the famed Canisteo Valley, the home of the Senecas, who once had here their village of "Kanistio." The valley was discovered by the whites in 1788, and the first of the settlers of the region came the next year, Uriah Stephens of Connecticut. |
 | | Cohocton, the principal village, was an established trading center July 4, 1813, when its inhabitants gathered round a Liberty Pole and proclaimed the name of the to be "Liberty,' This title was retained until 1891, when it was incorporated as Cohocton. |
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