Egbert Viele remarked long after Central Park was built that the residents of the area we now call Seneca Village was inhabited by the “foreign born in rude huts, living off the refuse of the city.” This observation of people living in the West Eighties would no doubt also apply to any...
Slavery was abolished in New York state in 1827, but in practice, black city residents had few of the property rights as their white neighbors. The African-American settlement of Seneca Village was eradicated by the creation of Central Park, and blacks were not welcome in many New York neighb...
MVSB is founded to meet the saving needs of the local community. Seneca A. Ladd is named Treasurer (equivalent to today’s President and CEO). 1873- 1898 During and immediately after the Civil War, the U.S. economy booms. This boom is accompanied by significant financial expansion and spe...
Seneca Village Much like how Abraham in the book of Genesis sought new beginnings, the slaves who escaped to the North settled in Seneca Village hoping for a better life. Motivated by the need to own $250 worth of land to vote, Black people grew Seneca Village in the heart of New York ...
Settlement was made in 1789 at the falls of theGenesee, which powered a grist-mill built by Ebenezer Allen on a 100-acre (40-hectare) tract granted on condition that he would serve the needs of theSenecaIndians. Theventurewas a failure, and Allen’s land was sold to Colonel Nathaniel Ro...
British.SenecaIndians under British protection settled the area in 1780. The town was laid out in 1803–04 by Joseph Ellicott of the Holland Land Company. NamedNew Amsterdam(but popularly called Buffalo), it had a population of about 1,500 at the time of theWar of 1812and became the ...
Most of the delegates to the Seneca Falls Convention agreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities. “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” proclaimed the Declaration of Sentiments that the delegates produced, “that all men and women are creat...
“the beginning of modern history on the Balkan peninsula” as the Serbs began to get rid of the Ottoman Turks and their Eastern culture. This was theseća knezovaor the massacre of the leaders. The word Knez you see today all over Serbia, and it is translated as “village headman”,...
The area was originally a Seneca village in the 1600s. It was called the Teiaiagon Village, which is a Seneca and Mohawk word meaning "it crosses the river." This was referring to the Humber River, which they strategically settled by. Today, the neighbourhood is known for being located ...
There really are some great books on the local & regional native peoples of our area including the Seneca and Delaware peoples, in general and figures like Seneca Chiefs Cornplanter and Red Jacket, and the Seneca Prophet Handsome Lake – the library has a number of cool books on the subject...