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    Victor
    Victor
    Victor
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    Victor

    By Babette Mann Huber

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    Victor tells the unique story of a historic community in the Finger Lakes region, just south of Rochester. It chronicles Victor's past as a Seneca Indian capital to the coming of Massachusetts settlers in the 18th century through to life as it was in the 20th century. With over 200 photographs, this book shows how people in rural upstate New York lived, played, studied, worked, and worshiped. The images are from the town and village archives, the Victor Historical Society, the Ontario County Historical Society, and private collections. Many are previously unpublished photographs, and several are by Fred Locke, an amateur photographer who is considered to be "the father of porcelain insulators."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439633960
    Victor
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    Babette Mann Huber

    Babette Mann Huber has been the Victor town historian since 1990. Along with Victor, she has also written pamphlets, booklets, articles, and plays on local history. A retired fourth- and fifth-grade teacher from Victor Central School, she received the 2005 Bruce W. Dearstyne Annual Archives Award for Excellence in the Educational Use of Local Government Records by an Educator from the New York State Archives and the Board of Regents. Her hope is that this pictorial recording of Victor's past will be memorable for residents and visitors, young and old alike.

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      Victor - Babette Mann Huber

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      INTRODUCTION

      The original settlers to the town of Victor, New York, were the Seneca Indians. During the 17th century, they established one of their principal villages at what is now Ganondagan, on top of Boughton Hill. When French traders wanted sole control of the fur trade, they attacked the Senecas in 1687 and the Senecas were defeated. The land lay fallow for over 100 years. Ganondagan is now owned by the state of New York. It is New York State’s only Native American historic site devoted solely to the history and culture of the Haudenosaunee, or People of the Longhouse.

      After the American Revolution, when western New York had been made safe for settlement, Victor was acquired from the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. Township No. 11, Range No. 4—a six-mile-square piece of land—was purchased for 20¢ an acre by Enos Boughton in 1788. In 1790, members of the Boughton family left Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to begin settlement at the former site of the Seneca capital on top of Boughton Hill. Other settlers from New England followed, and agriculture became the town’s most important industry. The town was originally part of Bloomfield and was known as Boughtontown because of the original family who bought the township of Victor.

      The town of Victor was set apart from Bloomfield and officially established by an act of the state legislature of New York in 1812. It was named Victor in honor of Claudius Victor Boughton, who distinguished himself in the War of 1812.

      Transportation and land helped Victor become prosperous. As an agrarian area, Victor’s hamlet of Fishers became an important potato producer in the late 19th century, one farmer growing as much as 10,000 bushels a year. With the Auburn and Rochester Railroad, the New York Central and the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Victorites became large produce dealers. As a result of glacial activity, Victor is home to unique cobblestone architecture. One building, the Fishers Railroad Pumphouse, built in 1845, is believed to be the second-oldest surviving railroad structure in the United States. In the mid-20th century, New York governor Thomas E. Dewey broke ground in Victor for the western part of the New York State Thruway.

      Some notable individuals—some prominent and some not so prominent—were connected to Victor. Buffalo Bill Cody, while visiting a friend in Victor, showed his shooting skills by shooting a potato off a man’s head with a shotgun. Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech from the platform of his railroad car at the Victor station in 1898. James Hard, who was born in Victor, became the nation’s last surviving combat veteran of the Civil War, dying at the age of 111. Victor’s most illustrious citizen was Fred M. Locke, who invented new improvements of the design of porcelain insulators in the early 20th century, when electricity was quickly spreading throughout the United States.

      Photographs from the Town of Victor Archives, the Victor Historical Society, the Ontario County Historical Society, and Ganondagan, as well as some from private collections, help the reader learn what makes Victor’s history unique. Included are several photographs that have never before been printed. Hopefully this pictorial recording of Victor’s historical past will be memorable for schoolchildren as well as adults.

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      BEGINNINGS

      Fort Hill was part of the Seneca capital at Ganondagan. The French Marquis Denonville destroyed Fort Hill as well as Ganondagan in 1687 in the quest for control of the beaver trade. The fort, with stores of corn and the palisade surrounding it, was burned by the French. It was never rebuilt. Fort Hill is part of the Ganondagan State Historic Site today.

      The Marquis Denonville’s march for control of the Seneca beaver trade is depicted on this map. His army of French regulars, American Indian allies, and Canadian woodsmen-militiamen landed at the end of Irondequoit Bay and marched south to Victor, Honeoye Falls, Bloomfield, and Lima to destroy the Seneca villages.

      This engraving represents the People of the Longhouse, the Haudenosaunee. The Seneca call themselves Onondowahgah, People of the Great Hill. They are the westernmost people of the Haundenosaunee, known today as the Six Nations Iroquois. The longhouse was not simply a dwelling, it was an idea—five nations, each with its own council fire, yet they would live together as one household in peace.

      The Gayanessha’gowa, or Great Law, is the founding tradition of the League of the Haudenosaunee. The founders of the league believed injustice must be abolished before peace could exist. Seneca oral tradition relates that Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, founders of the league, met Jikonhsaseh at her home near here. She offered advice, which enabled them to persuade the opposition led

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