Tuscarora is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

and

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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 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 ...

watershed. It is south of the village of Mount Morris, south-southwest of Geneseo, the Livingston

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, and northwest of Dansville. According to the

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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) {{LivingstonCountyNY-geo-stub