Geneva is a town in Ontario County, New York, United States.

Geneva is known for being the home of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station run by Cornell University.

This village was fortified during the Colonial Period as a defense against the French and was later used as a British stronghold during the American Revolution.

Seth Reed and his family settled here and owned an 18-mile tract of land in Ontario County between 1787 and 1795 before becoming the earliest settlers of Erie, Pennsylvania.

[2] Colonel Reed had been involved in the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Canada campaign while serving in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.

His latter experiences in this region of New York may have attracted him to Ontario County and Geneva.

The loss of this territory to the City of Geneva made the town the smallest in the county.