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2. commons.wikimedia.org › wiki › Category:SenecaCategory:Seneca County, New York - Wikimedia Commons

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   From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Counties of New York (state): Albany · Allegany · Bronx · Broome · Cattaraugus · Cayuga · Chautauqua · Chemung · Chenango · Clinton · Columbia · Cortland · Delaware · Dutchess · Erie · Essex · Franklin · Fulton · Genesee · Greene · Hamilton · Herkimer · Jefferson · Kings · Lewis ...

3. www.centralparknyc.org › articles › new-yorkers-onNew Yorkers on the Significance of Seneca… | Central Park ...

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   Aug 17, 2020 · Brent Staples has written about Seneca Village for The New York Times. At 142 feet above sea level, Summit Rock is the highest elevation in Central Park and was a prominent feature of Seneca Village's landscape. John T. Reddick, Historian & Columbia University Community Scholar: “As an African-American and curious observer of New York’s ...

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   Why is Seneca Village important?

   • Seneca Village deserves our attention as one of the first communities of free, African American property owners and immigrants in pre-Civil War New York. Veile survey: Egbert Viele, Topographical Survey for the Grounds of Central Park, 1856, New-York Historical Society. Here is what we know: Seneca Village existed between 1825 and 1857.

   Seneca Village: A Community Lost to Central Park - NYHistory

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   What did Seneca Village look like in 1856?

   • The boundaries of Seneca village were roughly 82nd street to 89th street between 7th and 8th avenues. In this land survey from 1856, you can see a birds-eye-view of it. The land was hilly and rocky and may have looked something like this. Photo of Central Park: Land Flooded to Make Central Park Lake, c. 1860, New-York Historical Society.

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   Who settled Seneca Village?

   • The settlement of Seneca Village began in 1825 when Andrew Williams, a 25-year-old African-American shoeshiner, bought three lots from John and Elizabeth Whitehead. The Whiteheads owned farmland in the west 80s and 90s but decided to divide up their land into individual lots for sale.

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   How many people lived in Seneca village in 1855?

   • The 1855 census reported 264 residents of Seneca Village. The census was handwritten, but take a look at this typed page of it that is easier to read. Census: Population Census of the 22nd Ward, New York (New York State Manuscript Census for 1855), Collection of The New York City Municipal Archives, Bureau of Old Records.

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   Nov 25, 2019 · The people. The settlement of Seneca Village began in 1825 when Andrew Williams, a 25-year-old African-American shoeshiner, bought three lots from John and Elizabeth Whitehead. The Whiteheads owned farmland in the west 80s and 90s but decided to divide up their land into individual lots for sale. Epiphany Davis, a store clerk, was the second ...

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   The Seneca Nation of Indians is a federally recognized Seneca tribe. [1] It is in western New York. The other Seneca tribes are the Tonawanda Band of Seneca (also in western New York) and the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma. The three reservations are Cattaraugus Reservation, Allegany Indian Reservation, and the unpopulated Oil Springs ...

7. www.mindat.org › loc-155856Seneca Co., New York, USA - mindat.org

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   There are 34 fossil localities from the PaleoBioDB database within this region. BETA TEST - These data are provided on an experimental basis and are taken from external databases. Mindat.org has no control currently over the accuracy of these data. Occurrences. 527.

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   Welcome to the Seneca Nation. We Have a Proud & Rich History. The Seneca was the largest of six Native American nations, which comprised the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations, a democratic government that pre-dates the U.S. Constitution. The historical Seneca occupied territory throughout the Finger Lakes area in Central New York, and in the ...

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   Seneca Village deserves our attention as one of the first communities of free, African American property owners and immigrants in pre-Civil War New York. Veile survey: Egbert Viele, Topographical Survey for the Grounds of Central Park, 1856, New-York Historical Society. Here is what we know: Seneca Village existed between 1825 and 1857.