Seneca Council Grounds is a photograph by Rick Berk which was uploaded on November 6th, 2016.
Seneca Council Grounds
The Seneca Council Grounds at Letchworth State Park. At this site visitors will find two dwellings and the gravesite of Mary Jemison.... more
by Rick Berk
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Seneca Council Grounds
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Rick Berk
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The Seneca Council Grounds at Letchworth State Park. At this site visitors will find two dwellings and the gravesite of Mary Jemison.
The first dwelling being a Revolutionary War-era Seneca Council House, which William Pryor Letchworth rescued from decay in Caneadea, New York and had it moved to this location in 1871. According to the plaque attatched to the Seneca Council House:
This ancient Seneca Council House stood at Ga-O-Ya-Deo (Canadea) on the Genesee River in days antedating the American Revolution. In it gathered the war parties that devastated the frontiers and before it their helpless prisoners ran the gauntlet. Around its council fires sat famous warriers and cheifs. For its preservation, it was carefully removed to its present location by William Pryor Letchworth and was re-dedicated October 1, 1872 by the last Indian Council on the Genesee.
The second cabin belonged to Mary Jemison, the White Woman of the Genesee.
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