"[5] The area was long occupied by the Seneca tribe, which had established a major village of Kanadaseaga here by 1687.

During the latter warfare, the punitive Sullivan Expedition of 1779 mounted by rebel forces destroyed many of the dwellings, as well as the winter stores of the people, and they abandoned the ruins.

Following the war and the forced removal of the Seneca from their native land, European-Americans settled here about 1793.

They developed a town encouraged by the Pulteney Association, which owned the land and was selling plots.

At the end of the Revolutionary War, Lt. Col. Seth Reed (né Read), who had fought at Bunker Hill, was one of many pioneers who moved from Massachusetts into Ontario County.

[7] "Seth Read moved his wife Hannah and their family to Geneva, Ontario County, New York in the winter of 1790".

[8] The settlement at Geneva was not yet permanent; the European Americans continued to harass the Seneca on the frontier.

Geneva, Nebraska, founded in 1871, is considered to have been named after the one in New York, rather than directly for the Swiss city.

Geneva is in the Finger Lakes region, the largest wine-producing area in New York State.

It flows north through Geneva, connecting to the Erie Canal, which was completed in 1825, giving access for the region to the Great Lakes and midwestern markets for their produce, as well as to buy natural resource commodities.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.8 square miles (15 km2).

Along with this growth, FLX Table opened in 2016 under the vision of a master sommelier, soon after winning the USA Today recognition of best new restaurant in the country.

Having been commissioned by William G. Dove, it was designed and built by Rochester architect Andrew Jackson Warner in 1878.

[26] It was once the workshop of notable American modernist and abstract painter Arthur Dove,[27] but has since been renovated to serve the community by offering lessons, promoting local artists, and serving as a for-rent venue space.