Routes of the Armies

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 the ...

This wayside shrine marks the place

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 ...

Genesee Castle

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 ...

Village Square

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 ...

5 Arch Bridge

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 was electrified ...

South Avon

Farming & industrial community dating from 1800 with a school, blacksmith, grange hall, factories & mills. Chadwick Tavern built 1830.

Marker is on Avon-Geneseo Road (New York Route 39).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Honeoye Valley

Three Indian tribes have hunted, fished and tilled the soil here for thousands of years.

Marker is at the intersection of Rush-West Rush Road and Creekside Drive, on the left when traveling east on Rush-West Rush Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Early Stage Stop

Here in 1867, the old tavern, stage stop and post office on historic Buffalo Road became the location of Chili Seminary, a school founded in 1866 by Benjamin Titus Roberts as the first educational institution for the Free Methodist Church ...

Ward Park

Est. 2010

Named for Deacon Levi Ward whose family settled here in June 1807.

His son, Dr. Levi Ward, was the first supervisor and assemblyman of Murray, a portion of which was named Bergen in 1813. Dr. Ward was responsible ...

Francis E. Willard

Great Temperance Leader was born in house standing on this site Sept. 28, 1839. The Willards left this home for Ohio two years later.

Marker is on South Main Street (New York Route 36) 0.2 miles south of North Buffalo ...