The Great Genesee Road
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Author | : Richard Figiel |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2024-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493075586 |
Today we call most of it New York Route 5. Over the centuries it has been called the Iroquois Trail, Genesee Road, Mohawk and Seneca Turnpike, Buffalo Road. In The Great Genesee Road, author Richard Figiel takes readers on a historical journey tracing the first road to penetrate west into New York State, exploring the artifacts and stories of centuries along the way from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. Many centuries ago, it was a Native-American path binding the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Then the trail became the principal overland conduit of the 17th and 18th-century North American fur trade. The Dutch turned the footpath into a cart track. The British and French turned it into a battleground. After the Revolution, the first homesteaders came to know it as the Genesee Road, leading them to a land of milk and honey in the western Genesee River Valley. Rambling across New York’s pastoral countryside from Schenectady, through Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, and ending in Buffalo as its “Main Street”, Route 5 travels through layers of history and stories of a restless, young America. Featuring rich storytelling, generous illustrations, historical and contemporary photographs, and detailed maps old and new, The Great Genesee Road is a fascinating trip through the making of New York State, the expansion of a young country, and a piece of history that readers can still explore today. ,
Author | : American Geographical Society of New York |
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Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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Author | : Dwight Hall Bruce |
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Total Pages | : 1126 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Syracuse (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Lorna MacDonald Czarnota |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1625847769 |
Prior to the Revolutionary War, everything west of Albany was wilderness. Safer travel and the promise of land opened this frontier. The interaction between European settlers and Native Americans transformed New York, and the paths they walked still bear the footprints of their experiences, like the shrine to Kateri Tekakwitha in Fonda. Industry and invention flourished along these routes, as peace sparked imagination, allowing for art and the freedom to explore new ideologies, some inspired by Native American culture. The Latter Rain Movement took hold in the heart of the Burned-Over District. Utopian communities and playgrounds for the wealthy appeared and vanished; all that remains of the Oneida Community is its Mansion House. Follow New York's westward trails--the Erie Canal and Routes 5 and 20--that opened the west to the United States, beginning in Albany and moving westward to Buffalo.
Author | : New York (State). |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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Author | : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
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Author | : Archer Butler Hulbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Kentucky |
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Author | : Seneca Falls Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Junius (N.Y. : Town) |
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Author | : American Geographical Society of New York |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Geography |
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Publisher | : PediaPress |
Total Pages | : 77 |
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