I stopped in Geneseo while on my way to Buffalo and took some pictures. I had never been in Geneseo before, and didn't know what to expect. From State Route 63, it doesn't even look like there's a town, and only a college in the middle of nowhere, despite the town being a county seat. There's only one street in the downtown area, but the town looks pretty nice.

The Treaty of Big Tree, a treay between the Senecas and United States and gave the US the land west of the Genesee River, was signed in present-day Geneseo under a big White Oak tree. A few landmarks in the area use the name "Big Tree".

All of these pictures are from Main Street.


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The Big Tree Inn, built in 1833 and originally known as the Big Tree Lodge.

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Looking up Main Street to the Livingston County Courthouse.

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Looking up Main Street at some businesses and the courthouse.

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Geneseo is a very nice little town, in a beautiful area with some gorgeous panoramas of the surrounding valleys. Rte 39 towards Avon, in particular, and another neat view is eastbound towards Geneseo on Rte 63, coming down into the valley opposite Geneseo. That view at night is incredible - such a small town, but you can see everything spread out on the hillside.

As a side note, US Route 20A, which begins in Hamburg, NY (about 1 mile from my apartment) and ends near Canandaigua, is known as "Big Tree Road" in several instances from Lake Erie where the roadway starts (without the US 20A designation) to a point nearly halfway to Geneseo.

cool man.

I see you hit up Batavia...good work!

Only place in which I've ever gotten a parking ticket! So needless to say my opinions on Geneseo are not ones I speak highly of, but it's a nice little college town sort of off in the middle of nowhere.

charming and well-preserved. thanks for the photos.

Very charming little town, it looks a lot like Newtown, PA IMO

Isn't that a wealthy suburb of Philly in Bucks County? Geneseo is about 200 miles North and 1 million bucks south of Newtown.

Isn't that a wealthy suburb of Philly in Bucks County? Geneseo is about 200 miles North and 1 million bucks south of Newtown.

Hahahaha.

That wasn't a slam to Geneseo; it's a nice quaint affordable town and not an affluent suburb. If we were talking about Pittsford here I could see the comparison. lol

Isn't that a wealthy suburb of Philly in Bucks County? Geneseo is about 200 miles North and 1 million bucks south of Newtown.

yes, it's a Philly suburb, quite nice actually, and I think it does resemble Geneseo in some areas! :)
Newtown isn't that wealthy, I mean, there are som really nice house but I think Doylestown is wealthier in Bucks Co.

Well, "wealthy" is all relative. I was dating a girl that originally hailed from Los Altos, CA, and once I made the mistake of bringing out the fact that the median income for a family is $140,000, making it one of the richest towns of any size in America. She said "no, you must be thinking of Los Altos Hills, that's the rich neighborhood". So I looked up that one, and it was in fact richer, so it's easy to see where her perception came from. Some consider $40,000 to be middle-class, some consider 80,000, some people that make over 200,000 consider themselves to be "just middle class". My family makes little enough money to not have to pay any state or federal taxes, or for my college tuition, but the word "poor" is not in our vocabulary. Poor is trying to raise kids on minimum wage, haha.

Well, "wealthy" is all relative. I was dating a girl that originally hailed from Los Altos, CA, and once I made the mistake of bringing out the fact that the median income for a family is $140,000, making it one of the richest towns of any size in America. She said "no, you must be thinking of Los Altos Hills, that's the rich neighborhood". So I looked up that one, and it was in fact richer, so it's easy to see where her perception came from. Some consider $40,000 to be middle-class, some consider 80,000, some people that make over 200,000 consider themselves to be "just middle class". My family makes little enough money to not have to pay any state or federal taxes, or for my college tuition, but the word "poor" is not in our vocabulary. Poor is trying to raise kids on minimum wage, haha.


a little off topic but a very interesting point. wealth is very much relative.
xxx dollars may be a solid income, but may seem inadequate when those around you have three times that number.

its also relevant to the cost of living in that area. 50,000 dollars a year could be barely lower middle class in some areas where it could be almost upper middle class in others.

a friend of mine took a 60,000 dollar a year job in the city(ny) a few years back. the number sounds great to a single twenty something from rochester, and in rochester that income would likely mean an upper middle class lifestyle.
in the city, however, it means living very much like he did for 30,000/yr in rochester.

Nice!