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3 unusual facts about Genesee


Genesee

The Genesee Farmer was an agriculture and horticulture periodical established in 1831

Genesee River, a river in north central Pennsylvania and western New York in the U.S

William A. Brodie

:Raised November 9, 1863, Genesee Lodge No. 214, (Genesee, New York)


1959 United States Figure Skating Championships

The event was held from January 29 through February 2 in Rochester, New York under the joint sponsorship of the Genesee Figure Skating Club and the Rochester Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Alzheimer's Association, Central New York Chapter

Regional offices are located in the Nichols Notch Building at 401 Hayes Avenue in Endicott; 258 Genesee Street in Utica; and the HSBC Bank Building at 120 Washington Street, Suite 419, in Watertown.

Bert E. Salisbury

The family lived at 1810 West Genesee Street in Syracuse and their summer home was located on Fourth Lake in the Adirondack Mountains.

Katherine Pharis Salisbury (born February 13, 1905 – November 19, 2003) married Harold Locke Hazen (August 1, 1901-February 21, 1980) on September 5, 1928 in her parents' home at 1810 West Genesee Street.

Charles J. Siragusa

During his time as First Assistant District Attorney, Siragusa successfully prosecuted Arthur Shawcross, also known as The Genesee River Killer.

Cuylerville, New York

Mary Jemison, known as "the White Woman of the Genesee", lived here.

Episcopal Diocese of Western New York

The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming in western New York.

Garfield, Washington

Garfield and Genesee, Idaho, were the filming locations for the rural scenes of the 1991 film Talent for the Game, starring Edward James Olmos.

Genesee Depot, Wisconsin

It is located in the Town of Genesee, in southeastern Wisconsin between Milwaukee and Madison, and named for the train station, or depot, of the Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad (now the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad) that formerly served the town.

Another historic site in Genesee Depot is Ten Chimneys, the home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, so known because among the three buildings on the site, there are ten chimneys.

Genesee Wesleyan Seminary

The Genesee Wesleyan Seminary (I) was founded in 1831 by the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Honeoye

Honeoye Creek, a tributary of the Genesee River in western New York

John Ralston Williams

Williams was also responsible for placing tens of thousands of oak and other trees at the current site of Oak Hill Country Club, when the country club moved from Oak Hill near the Genesee River to a new space in Pittsford (in a land swap with the University of Rochester).

Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad

LAL ownership begins at the east end of Genesee Junction with the former Conrail non-controlled siding that runs parallel to the West Shore Branch from Genesee Junction Yard to MP 360.

New York State Route 952Q

It passes north of the Wende Correctional Facility and serves a small number of commercial and industrial complexes on its way to an intersection with Genesee Street (NY 33).

Parma, New York

The Town of Parma, then in Genesee County, was organized in 1808, named after Parma in Italy.

Philetus Swift

He was a member of the New York State Assembly from Genesee, Ontario and Allegany Counties in 1807 and 1808, and from Ontario County in 1823.

Robert Pestronk

As the former Health Officer for Genesee County, Michigan, Pestronk enabled Genesee County’s 430,000 citizens to protect, promote, and improve their quality of life in partnership with community resources.

Scottsville Free Library

Peter Sheffer, Jr, was the first non-Indian to be married west of the Genesee.

Skaneateles Historic District

Architects whose work is represented in the district include Stanford White ("The Boulders", 100 East Genesee Street, 1881) and Horatio Nelson White (St. James' Episcopal Church, 94 East Genesee Street, 1873).

Third Ward Railway

Its line extended from Salina Street on West Genesee Street to West Street and from there to Park Avenue and Willis Avenue with final termination at Solvay Process Company at Sixth North Street (now Gere Avenue) in Solvay, New York, a suburb of Syracuse.

Thomas Thackeray Swinburne

The memorial, proposed in 1927 and dedicated in 1933, is a 26 ton glacial boulder holding a bronze plaque with verses from The Genesee sculpted by Alphonse A. Kolb.

In 1926, distraught over the death of his sister Rose, to whom he had dedicated By the Genesee and Rochester in Song and Verse, he committed suicide by jumping from a bridge into the Genesee River.


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