Great Genesee Road: Difference between revisions

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:*[[Genesee County, New York|Genesee County]]  
:*[[Genesee County, New York|Genesee County]]  
:*[[Erie County, New York|Erie County]]
:*[[Erie County, New York|Erie County]]
The migration pathways connected at the east end in [[Utica, New York|New York City]] included:
:*[[Mohawk Trail]] (or Iroquois Trail) a pre-historic footpath that connected [[Albany, New York|Albany]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Oswego Fort Oswego]
:*[[Great_Genesee_Road|Great Genesee Road]] 1794 from [[Utica, New York|Utica]] to [[Caledonia, New York|Caledonia]] and later [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]
:*[[Erie Canal]] 1825 from [[Albany, New York|Albany]] to [[Utica, New York|Utica]] to [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]
The migration pathways connected at the west end in [[Buffalo, New York|Bu included:
:*[[Great_Genesee_Road|Great Genesee Road]] 1794 from [[Utica, New York|Utica]] to [[Caledonia, New York|Caledonia]] and later [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]
:*[[Erie Canal]] 1825 from [[Albany, New York|Albany]] to [[Utica, New York|Utica]] to [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]
:*[[Shore Line Path]] from [[Buffalo, New York]] to [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
:*pathways into [[Ontario]]
'''Modern parallels.''' The modern road that roughly matches the Great Genesee Road and its extension to Buffalo is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_5 New York State Route 5] from [[Utica, New York|Utica]] to [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]].


=== Settlers and Records  ===
=== Settlers and Records  ===
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