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The Seneca or Onödowá’ga:’ (pronounced: Oh-n'own-dough-wahgah) or "Great Hill People" are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution. They were the largest ...
Haudenosaunee: Who We Are The Haundenosaunee Confederacy has been in place since time immemorial. The Peacemaker was sent by the Creator to spread the Kariwiio or good mind. With the help of Aiionwatha commonly known as Hiawatha, the Peacemaker taught the laws of peace to the Haudenosaunee. Travelling from community to community they both succeeded in persuading the Chiefs of each nation to joi...
Bethel Benton donated the land for the Butcher Cemetery to the community . The land records indicate that Bethel purchased the property from Oliver Whitmore 29 June, 1798 and was sole owner of the property until he sold the surrounding property to his youngest son Chester H. Benton in 1823 while preserving the Church Yard for public use and again included the property in his will upon his decea...
People of the Great Swamp The Cayuga (Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. Today, Cayuga people belong t...
Montevideo Cemetery, Seneca, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States Montevideo was built in the first quarter of the 19th century as a summer home for John Parke Custis Peter, a great-grandson of Martha Washington. It is a large manor house sitting 320 feet above the Potomac River with extensive mountain views, prompting the estate's name. The property is over 300 acres and has been in the...
Letchworth State Park is located in Castile, Wyoming County, New York. "Letchworth State Park, renowned as the "Grand Canyon of the East," is one of the most scenically magnificent areas in the eastern U.S. The Genesee River roars through the gorge over three major waterfalls between cliffs--as high as 600 feet in some places--surrounded by lush forests." NY Parks There is only one, rec...
Buffalo Cemetery resides in Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York. The earliest graves were dug in the first decade of the 1800s. Buffalo Cemetery is an active cemetery within the natural beauty that is Western New York. Find a Grave About Cheektowaga: "Cheektowaga comes from the Erie-Seneca Indian word, Ji-ik-do-wah-gah, or “place of the crabapple tree.” The earliest Indian dwellers were...