A history of Geneseo,
since 1836
Postcards, papers and photographs of Geneseo from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Geneseo was founded as a Christian colony in 1836 by seven families of the Congregationalist denomination from Geneseo, New York and Bergen, New York seeking to establish a "church in the wilderness". Roderick R. Stewart, one of the city's founding members, named the town Geneseo after the settlers' town of origin in New York. The name "Geneseo" is a variation of the Iroquois word Genesee, meaning "shining valley" or "beautiful valley".
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Geneseo’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
3 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewHome with a white picket fence an…, c. 1880: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Geneseo
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Geneseo, decade by decade
1990s
2 historic places in Geneseo
2 places in Geneseo are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Home with a white picket fence and summer house, Geneseo (c. 1880) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From Wikimedia Commons (12). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.