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  Holland Purchase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It consisted of about 3,250,000 acres (13,000 km²) of land from a line approximately 12 miles (19 km) to the west of the Genesee River to the present western border and boundary of New York State.
This area of western New York today is sometimes known as Genesee Country or the Niagara Frontier to distinguish it from the Finger Lakes region.
In the 40 years after it was erected, Genesee County was repeatedly split to form all or parts of the counties of Allegany (1806), Niagara (1808), Cattaraugus (1808), Chautaqua (1808), Erie (1821), Monroe (1821), Livingston (1821), Orleans (1824), and Wyoming (1841).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genesee_Country   (331 words)

  
 Genesee Country Village & Museum - Attractions - The Historic Village
In the Genesee Country in the 1820s and 1830s, some 40 hamlets and villages were providing economic services and other community functions for the flood of settlers who were clearing and developing its rich lands.
The Genesee Country villages were located and built by enterprising pioneers who seized the opportunity to provide their fellow settlers with taverns, stores, mills, tanneries, and smiths, as well as churches, libraries, and academies to fit their varied tastes.
Genesee Country Village was opened to the public in 1976.
www.gcv.org /attractions/historicVillage   (306 words)

  
 Genesee Home
One of the first settlers, Edwin Hosselkus, opened the Genesee Country Store on the property to serve travelers and the local residents in 1858, and that original building still stands about 25 yards north of the present store.
In the late 1800's, the Genesee Country Store was a stop for the stagecoach that ran between Reno, Nevada and Portland, Oregon.
Genesee District School opened in the fall of 1865 to serve the local children, and the first post office was established in the area in 1880 in the Genesee Country Store.
www.geneseehome.org /history.html   (194 words)

  
 Genesee Country Village and Museum
Genesee Country Village and Museum was conceived and founded by John L. Wehle who from its inception in 1966 until his death in 1994 served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Opened to the public in 1976, Genesee Country Village and Museum doubled in size and content in its second decade.
The ongoing development of the Genesee Country Nature Center, another of Genesee Country Village and Museum's missions, affords opportunities for the public to observe the undisturbed flora and the unthreatened fauna within the preserve.
www.incose.org /symp2005/Genesee.htm   (632 words)

  
 Genesee Country Village and Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Genesee Country Village and Museum, covering more than 600 acres (2.4 km²) is located in Mumford, New York, about 20 miles (30 km) from Rochester, New York, USA.
The Museum includes a 19th-century country village (The Historic Village), the John L. Wehle Art Gallery, the Genesee Country Nature Center, the Carriage Museum, the Silver Baseball Park, and the Heirloom Gardens.
The Historic Village and Art Gallery are open to the public every day except Mondays from May through October.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genesee_Country_Village_and_Museum   (466 words)

  
 Wendy Wright's Annotated Bibliography for the Genesee Country Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Genesee Country Village: Scenes of the Town and Country in the Nineteenth Century.
There are sections for each of the museum's main attractions: the Genesee Country Village, Gallery of Sporting Art, and the Nature Center.
There is a brief statement of what the museum is, i.e., "Genesee Country Village & Museum is a not-for-profit educational living history museum chartered by the Board of Regents of the State University of New York." There are no photographs or links to the museum's official site.
www.rit.edu /~wcw4284/fwb/project1/ww_biblio.html   (3171 words)

  
 A bed and breakfast inn near Rochester, NY - Genesee
The historic Genesee Country Inn Bed and Breakfast is only three hours from Toronto at the edge of the Finger Lakes near Rochester, NY.
The Inn is practically surrounded by water, amid the natural beauty of Spring Creek in the Hamlet of Mumford, New York.
Relax, trout fish, walk to the Genesee Country Village and Museum and Nature Center, bird watch, or take day trips to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, the Erie Canal, Letchworth State Park, wineries, museums, or antique shops.
geneseecountryinn.com   (156 words)

  
 Genesee County,New York GenWeb
Originally Genesee County comprised virtually all of Western New York and was divided into only four "Shires" or towns; Batavia, Northampton, Southampton, and Leicester.
Gradually, parcels of land were taken from Genesee County to form other counties; Allegany (1806), Cattaraugus (1808), Chautauqua (1808), Niagara (1808), part of Livingston (1821), part of Monroe (1821), Erie (1821), Orleans (1824) and Wyoming (1841).
Genesee Area Genealogists is an organization of people from Genesee, Wyoming, and Ontario counties plus others from around the country which meets on the third Tuesdays ten months a year (February through November) at 7 pm in the Richmond Memorial Library at 19 Ross St., Batavia, NY.
www.rootsweb.com /~nygenese/index.htm   (1151 words)

  
 Genesee Country Campground Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Genesee Country Campground in Caledonia, New York is the place for you!
We also love kids here at Genesee Country Campground, so we have provided a beautiful playground for their use.
We are located one mile from Genesee Country Museum.
www.geneseecountrycampground.com   (219 words)

  
 Genesee Country Village - FLTA press release
Genesee Country Village and Museum is one of the nation's largest living history museums, with 68 historic structures from all around western New York.
Hours: The Genesee Country Village and Museum is open May - October from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Admission: $12.95 for ages 17-61; $9.95 for ages 62+ or students with a valid ID; $7.50 for ages 4-16; free for ages 3 and under and for Genesee Country Village and Museum members.
www.fingerlakes.org /press_releases/articles/region/10-06-04.htm   (496 words)

  
 The History of New York State, Book VIII, Chapter I
The Genesee Country became the granary of New York; Genesee flow was famous.
Of Phelps' mill yard we have heard; of the millstones of this first industry in the city, it is interesting to note that they were embedded in the walls of one of the corridors of the present courthouse with a tablet explaining their significance.
The valley of the Genesee was the heaviest producing section in the States, and yet in 1816 the hamlet was importing wheat from Canada to keep her mills going.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/state/his/bk8/ch1.html   (3951 words)

  
 The Devastation of the Genesee Country :: The Patriot Files :: Dedicated to the preservation of military history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Every creek and river has been traced, and the whole country explored in search of Indian settlements, and I am well persuaded that, except one town situated near the Allegana, about 50 miles from Chinesee there is not a single town left in the country of the Five nations.
Besides the difficulties which naturally attend marching through an enemy's country, abounding in woods, creeks, rivers, mountains, morasses and defiles, we found no small inconvenience from the want of proper guides, and the maps of the country are so exceedingly erroneous that they serve not to enlighten but to perplex.
We had not a person who was sufficiently acquainted with the country to conduct a party out of the Indian path by day, or scarcely in it by night; though they were the best I could possibly procure.
www.patriotfiles.com /article.php?sid=334   (3319 words)

  
 What is the Genesee Country?
In the late 1700s, the first European settlers in western New York referred to The Genesee Country as including everything west of the so-called "pre-emption line." This north-south line started at Sodus on Lake Ontario and ran south through Seneca Lake and on to the Pennsylvania border.
The river cut the beautiful gorges of Letchworth State Park, "the Grand Canyon of the East", meanders across the broad lower Genesee Valley and powered the early mills of Rochester "the Flour City".
In 1993, with the debut of Genesee Country Magazine, "The Magazine of the Western Door" the concept of the Genesee Country began to grow again.
www.clarioncall.com /map.html   (246 words)

  
 Genesee Country Village And Museum/ John L. Wehle Art Gallery
Genesee Country Village & Museum interprets 19th-century American life for the education and enjoyment of the public.
The Genesee Country Village and Museum is open May through October each year with educational classes and special events taking place throughout the year.
The Genesee Country Village and Museum was founded with the goal of preserving and sharing architecture of the Genesee region with a focus on life in the 19th century.
www.volunteersolutions.org /uwgr/org/5807121.html   (326 words)

  
 Genesee Country Campground, New York
There's so much to do around Genesee Country Campground and what a great place for camping it is. The local attractions and such a great variety of outdoors recreation will make you glad you came.
You can't spend all your time indoors you need to get out once in a while and Genesee Country Campground in New York is such a great place.
Country Inn & Suites Mt Morris is located in the heart of Western New York along the Genesee River, at the entrance of Letchworth State Park - the 'Grand Canyon of the East'.
www.hikercentral.com /campgrounds/108236.html   (644 words)

  
 Genesee Country Village & Museum - Calendar - June 2003
Daily— This new interactive exhibit at the John L. Wehle Art Gallery celebrates the museum's three decades of assembling the Genesee Country past.
Genesee Country Village & Museum speaker series concludes with a narrated trolley tour of the historic village, a luncheon with the series presenters and a concert by the Genesee Harmonic Society.
Talk with soldiers from both sides what was happening on the Niagara Frontier and in the Genesee Country during the War of 1812 and the impact of the conflict on the region.
www.gcv.org /programsAndEvents/2003-06.shtml   (795 words)

  
 Genesee Country Village & Museum
The Historic Village and the John L. Wehle Art Gallery, North America's premier collection of wildlife and sporting art, are now open for the season.
The museum also includes the Genesee Country Nature Center — 175 acres featuring five miles of hiking trails through woodlands, wetlands and meadows.
Enjoy a colorful, authentic 19th-century country fair on Sept. 1-Oct. 1..
www.gcv.org   (113 words)

  
 Genesee Country Inn in Mumford-Rochester, NY, New York, USA - Inns of USA
Beautiful view of the gardens and woods; extra quiet on the water level with gas fireplace and a queen-sized canopy bed.
Relax, trout fish, walk to the Genesee Country Village & Museum and Nature Center, bird watch, or take day trips to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, the Erie Canal, Letchworth State Park, wineries, museums, or antique shops.
Afternoon tea and home-baked cookies are waiting for you on arrival, and with full country breakfast by candlelight each morning.
www.innsofusa.com /hotelview.aspx?h=11033   (749 words)

  
 Genesee Country Inn, c.1833 bed and breakfast inn - Mumford, New York
Visit the Genesee Country Inn—the place where memories are made.
The famous Genesee Country Historic Village Museum and Nature Center is less than a mile away.
Relax, flyfish, walk to the Genesee Country Museum and Nature Center (third largest in USA), or take day trips to Niagara Falls, Letchworth State Park, Historic Corning and the Glass Museum, Susan B. Anthony House, Seneca Falls Women's Museum or antique shops.
www.lanierbb.com /inns/bb890.html   (492 words)

  
 Top20Rochester.com - Your Top20Guide to Rochester, NY.
The City of Rochester is at the center of a larger Metropolitan Area which encompasses and extends past Monroe County and includes Genesee County, Livingston County, Ontario County, Orleans County, and Wayne County.
The retreating glaciers created the Genesee Valley and left rolling hills (drumlin fields) around it, including (from west to east) Mt. Hope, the rolling hills of Highland Park, Pinnacle Hill and Cobb's Hill.
The Institute of Optics of the University of Rochester is ranked number one in the country, and the Rochester Institute of Technology has one of the best imaging science departments in the country.
top20rochester.com   (2763 words)

  
 Western New York Travel Guide: Genesee Country Museum
Authentically-dressed Genesee Country villagers go about their daily business, whether it be flsmith, printer or merchant.
These are but a few of the sights, smells and sounds of early America that welcome me to Genesee Country Museum, an authentic expression of regional life over 150 years ago.The museum, comprised of a 19th century village, John L. Wehle Art Gallery and a Nature Center, is America's third largest living history museum.
This cabin, like all other village and farm structures, has been moved from its original location in the Genesee Country, restored and furnished to reflect the history, beauty and tradition of the Genesee Valley.
www.westernny.com /gcmuseum.html   (564 words)

  
 Genesee Country Village & Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The gallery is part of Genesee Country Village and Museum, the third-largest collection of historic buildings in the nation.
The museum also includes the 275-acre Genesee Country Nature Center, with five miles of hiking trails through woodlands, wetlands and meadows.
Genesee Country Village and Museum is located in Mumford, New York, 20 miles southwest of Rochester and 45 miles east of Buffalo near New York State Thruway exits 47 (LeRoy) and 46 (Rochester).
www.tfaoi.com /newsm1/n1m531.htm   (278 words)

  
 Mumford Bed and Breakfast New York Genesee Country Inn Circa 1833, Mumford, New York
Visit the nearby Genesee Country Village Museum, the third largest historic Museum in the United States.
The Inn, a former plaster-paper mill during the 1800s, with 2 1/2 foot-thick stone walls, is located near Rochester, New York; just three hours from Toronto at the edge of the Finger Lakes.
You are on a par with the better country Inns of England.
www.selectregistry.com /inns/qv/iid/77/inn/bedandbreakfast.aspx   (226 words)

  
 Mumford Bed and Breakfast New York Genesee Country Inn Circa 1833 Local Attractions
Our attractions include the Genesee Country Museum an 19th Century restored village that is less than a mile from our Inn.
The Genesee Valley Greenway: The Genesee Valley Greenway is one of hundreds of greenways being developed across the nation along oId canals, abandoned rail beds, and riverbanks.
The Genesee Country Museum Nature Center and Letchworth State Park provide hiking trails of varying difficulty.
www.selectregistry.com /inns/qv/iid/77/attractions/bedandbreakfast.aspx   (575 words)

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