GENESEO – The following is an email submitted by Robert Morris to the GeneseeSun.com for publication. The attitudes and ideas expressed below should not be interpreted as the opinion of the GeneseeSun.com: During the past eight weeks I have made it a goal to bring to the attention of various governmental bodies "an island" that has been growing in the area where Long Point Creek enters Conesus Lake. The island is already starting to divert … [Read more...]
Once Stolen Sign Honors Site of Historic ‘Treaty of the Big Tree’ in Geneseo
GENESEO – A cast iron sign is once again standing off of Mary Jemison Drive after a mysterious and long disappearance, commemorating the site in Geneseo at which much of Western New York was sold by the Seneca Nation. The sign points out the site of the signing of the Treaty of the Big Tree, which transferred some 3,600,000 acres of Western New York from the Seneca Nation to Thomas Morris, representing Robert Morris, the American merchant who … [Read more...]