ENGLISH

Waterloo

By Bonnie J. Breese

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2016
ISBN
9781439656181, 9781467121811
LCC
F129.W27 .B744 2016
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
28 MB (29226125 bytes)
Series
Images of America
Pages
226\0
Time added
2023-08-30 23:16:15
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Description

Located in the heart of the Finger Lakes of upstate New York is the quaint village of Waterloo in Seneca County. Because the village spanned both sides of the Seneca River, it was founded in two stages: the southern side in 1792 by Samuel Bear and the northern side in 1807 by Elisha Williams. It is best known as the birthplace of Memorial Day, which was first celebrated by the citizens of Waterloo in May 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, to honor those lost. Waterloo was also where the women's rights movement was originally conceived. In the 1800s, it became a thriving industrial town manufacturing wagons, pianos, woolen goods, organs, and many other products. It is the home of the historic Scythe Tree, where farm boys hung their scythes before going off to war, and of Barney Oldfield, Louise Scherbyn, and Richard P. Hunt, among others.

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