Tuscarora is a
hamlet
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and
census-designated place
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in the town of
Mount Morris,
Livingston County,
New York, United States. Its population was 74 as of the
2010 census.
Geography
Tuscarora is in southwestern Livingston County, in the southeast part of the town of Mount Morris. It is in the valley of Keshequa Creek, a northeast-flowing tributary of
Canaseraga Creek and part of the
Genesee River
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The river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills and still provides h ...
watershed. It is south of the
village of Mount Morris, south-southwest of
Geneseo, the Livingston
county seat
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, and northwest of
Dansville.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, the Tuscarora CDP has an area of , all land.
The
First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora
First Presbyterian Church of Tuscarora is a historic Presbyterian church located at Tuscarora in Livingston County, New York. It was built about 1844 and is a three- by five-bay Greek Revival style frame building. The gable roof is surmounted b ...
, built ''circa'' 1844, is a historic church in the center of the hamlet. It is the last surviving public building from Tuscarora's brief early to mid-19th century commercial prosperity related to its location on the
Genesee Valley Canal.
Demographics
References
Hamlets in Livingston County, New York
Hamlets in New York (state)
Census-designated places in Livingston County, New York
Census-designated places in New York (state)
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