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Eaton Site is a historic archeological site located at West Seneca in Erie County, New York. It contains a record of small, intermittently occupied campsites from the Early Archaic (c. 8000 BC) though the Late Woodland (c. 1200 AD) periods and an Iroquoian village dating to around 1550 AD. The site also contains materials from the early 19th ...
Ebenezer Colonies. The Ebenezer Colonies was a settlement founded by the Community of True Inspiration in what is now the town of West Seneca, New York. A congregation of Inspirationists emigrated to the site from Germany in 1843. The congregation began to relocate to Iowa in 1855 and the settlement's land was eventually abandoned and sold.
Community of True Inspiration Residence, also known as the Lower Ebenezer Society house and West Seneca Historical Society, is a historic home located at West Seneca in Erie County, New York. It was built about 1850, and is a -story, vernacular wood-frame building with a gable roof. A rear wing was added in the 1870s, with additions made in 1956.
Ebenezer is a hamlet in the town of West Seneca in Erie County, New York, United States. [1] It was established as part of the Ebenezer Colonies in 1842 by the Community of True Inspiration. After the community was annexed by the newly formed town of West Seneca in 1851, the Inspirationists moved on to the Amana Colonies in Iowa .
West Seneca, New York. / 42.83917°N 78.76083°W / 42.83917; -78.76083. West Seneca is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 45,500 at the 2020 census. West Seneca is a centrally located interior town of the county, and a suburb of Buffalo. West Seneca, Orchard Park and Hamburg form the inner "Southtowns", a ...
A meetinghouse of the Community of True Inspiration in the Amana Colonies. The Community of True Inspiration, also known as the True Inspiration Congregations, Inspirationalists, and the Amana Church Society) is a Radical Pietist group of Christians descending from settlers of German, Swiss, and Austrian descent who settled in West Seneca, New York, after purchasing land from the Seneca ...
The West Seneca Central School District is the third largest central school district in Western New York, and one of the largest school districts in New York State. It serves 25 square miles (65 km 2 ), including a majority of the town of West Seneca, and portions of the towns of Cheektowaga, Orchard Park, and Hamburg. It was centralized in 1946.
The Seneca Nation of Indians is a federally recognized Seneca tribe based in western New York. [1] They are one of three federally recognized Seneca entities in the United States, the others being the Tonawanda Band of Seneca (also in western New York) and the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma. Some Seneca also live with other Iroquois peoples ...