Cuylerville is a
hamlet
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in the
Town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Leicester, in
Livingston County,
New York, United States. The population was 297 at the
2010 census, which lists the community as a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the count ...
.
History
The community was named for W. T. Cuyler, an early settler. The hamlet is located on the site of
Little Beard's Town Little Beard's Town, also known as Chenussio (in Seneca) and "Genesee Castle", was a powerful Seneca town in the Genesee River Valley near modern Leicester in Livingston County, New York, where Cuylerville stands today.
It surrounded the area t ...
, a large
Seneca
Seneca may refer to:
People and language
* Seneca (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
* Seneca people, one of the six Iroquois tribes of North America
** Seneca language, the language of the Seneca people
Places Extrat ...
village destroyed in the
Sullivan Campaign.
Mary Jemison
Mary Jemison (''Deh-he-wä-nis'') (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl she was captured and adopted into a Se ...
, known as "the White Woman of the Genesee", lived here.
The
National Hotel was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2004.
Located near Cuylerville is the
Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade
Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade is a historic park area located near the Town of Groveland in Livingston County, New York. The site commemorates the Boyd and Parker ambush, which took place during the Sullivan Expedition of the America ...
, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Geography
Cuylerville is in western Livingston County, in the eastern part of the town of Leicester.
U.S. Route 20A and
New York State Route 39 pass through the community together as Cuylerville Road, leading west to
Leicester village and east to
Geneseo, the Livingston
county seat
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.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, the Cuylerville CDP has an area of , all land.
The hamlet sits at the western edge of the valley of the
Genesee River
The Genesee River is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York in the United States.
The river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills and still provides h ...
.
Demographics
References
External links
Town of Leicester
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Hamlets in New York (state)
Census-designated places in New York (state)
Census-designated places in Livingston County, New York
Hamlets in Livingston County, New York