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Geneva is a city in Ontario and Seneca counties in the U.S. state of New York. It is at the northern end of Seneca Lake; all land portions of the city are within Ontario County; the water portions are in Seneca County. The population was 13,261 at the 2010 census. The city is supposedly named after the city and canton of Geneva in Switzerland.
- United States
- New York
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The lake was named Geneva by the surveyor John Brink in honor of his home town of Geneva which was on Seneca Lake in upstate New York. These early settlers were enamored with the new village, the beautiful lake, and the surrounding countryside because it reminded them of the region in upstate New York where they had come from.
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In the 1830s, a government surveyor named John Brink renamed the lake and the town on it for Geneva, New York, another lakeside town which he thought they resembled. To avoid confusion with the nearby town of Geneva, Illinois, the city was renamed Lake Geneva; later, [when?] the lake was renamed Geneva Lake. [citation needed]
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Seneca Lake, the deepest of the Finger Lakes at about 617 feet at its deepest point and the second-longest at about 38 miles, draws fishing and boating enthusiasts to Geneva. Geneva is also popular with golfers and a mecca for bicyclists due to the flat, rural roads, and little traffic. Geneva was named an All-America City in 2015, and for ...
May 16, 2013 · Geneva’s Changing Waterfront was the name of a 1989 exhibit and catalogue by researcher Kathryn Grover. The title sounds “ripped from the headlines,” as some TV shows say. Seneca Lake and its shore have always been valuable commodities to Geneva but the nature of that value is always changing. The lake offered food and transportation for ...
Dec 9, 2021 · Geneva is a small lakeside city in the US state of New York. It began as a small village in the late 18th century. Farmers from different parts of the United States migrated there to take advantage of the area's fertile soil. It remained primarily an agricultural community throughout the 19th century, but in the 20th century, the city's economy ...
Geneva, city, Ontario county, west-central New York, U.S. It lies at the northern end of Seneca Lake, in the Finger Lakes region, 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Rochester. The site, once part of the Pulteney Estate, was first settled in 1788 and named (1792) by land promoter Captain Charles
