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Livingston County,
New York 

Local History & Genealogy

 

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My name is Douglas Morgan and I'm your host for the Livingston, NY, Local History Network.

New!! Livingston Area Churches. Listed by Townships:  A - D, F - L; M - Z.
New!! Query , Biography, Obituary, and Surname Discussion Boards
New!! Livingston Photos. If you would like to contribute photographs of Livingston places, please contact me.
If you would like to submit a family site regarding Livingston County, please contact me.

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Livingston County

Livingston County was taken from Ontario and Genesee counties in 1821. Greatest length N. and S. 30; greatest breadth E. and W. 28 miles. Centrally distant NW, from New York 360, and from Albany W. 224 miles. The surface of the country is in some parts hilly, in others quite level, or but gently undulated. Flats of richly alluvion border the Genesee river in its course through the county from 1 to 2 miles in width, but a gravelly loam predominates on the upland. The great staples are wheat, pork, and cattle. Of the first, it is estimated that there is an annual surplus of over a million of bushels.

The Avon Springs, in the village of Avon in this county, about 10 miles from Geneseo, have acquired considerable celebrity. The first, called the New Avon Bath Spring, was discovered in 1835. Its depth is about 36 feet, and the formation through which the water psses is limy slate.  analysis and experience have fully tested the sanative properties of these waters; they are found peculiarly efficacious in disorders of the digestive organs, rheumatic complaints, and gout, and in many of the most formidable cutaneous affections.


The Genesee Valley canal enters the county at Caledonia and following the valley of the Genesee, crosses the same near Mount Morris, and passing along the valley of the Cashqua creek, leaves the county in the southern portion of Mount Morris. Four miles south of Mount Morris village a branch runs to Dansville. The county is part of the tract ceded to Massachusetts, and is divided into 12 towns. (Historical Collections of the State of New York, Past and Present, Barber, John, Warner, Clark Albien & Co. 1851)

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Livingston County Discussion Boards

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Towns in Livingston

Avon Groveland Mount Morris
Caledonia Leicester Sparta
Conesus Lima Springwater
Geneseo Livonia York

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