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It is a peculiar fact that many towns in New York State have a street named “Genesee.” These “Genesee Streets” are almost invariably the oldest and most central streets in these towns—main streets in the truest sense of the term, not the modern, cluttered kind of “commercial drive.” But why are these streets called “GeneseeContinue reading “Genesis, not Genesee!”