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What is the web address of the Holland Land Office Museum in Batavia New York?
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The web address of the Holland Land Office Museum is: http://www.hollandlandoffice.com
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Where is the Holland Land Office Museum in Batavia New York located?
The address of the Holland Land Office Museum is: 131 Main St, Batavia, NY 14020
What is the phone number of the Holland Land Office Museum in Batavia New York?
The phone number of the Holland Land Office Museum is: 607-369-2059.
When was Batavia New York the capital of New York State?
Batavia has never been the capital of New York State. Batavia is the county seat of Genesee County in western New York State [half way between Rochester and Buffalo on I-90 (NYS Thruway, exit 48).] However, a reason that someone may have believed that Batavia once was the capital of New York State is a as follows. Robert Morris, Jr., a Declaration of Independence signer from the state of Pennsylvania, owned a 3.25 million acre territory in western New York State. In 1792--1793, a group of Dutch bankers, known as the Holland Land Company bought that land. The territory was named the "The Holland Purchase" was also called "The Genesee County." Its eastern border is just west of the Genesee River (empties into Lake Ontario at Rochester, NY). Its western boarder is the Niagara River, the present western border and boundary of the New York State. Its norther border is Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and Pennsylvania is its southern border. Joseph Ellicott, a famous surveyor was hired by The Holland Land Company in 1798. It took him two years of living outdoors to complete the survey of The Holland Purchase. And it took him another year to lay out townships and establish sites for communities and mills in The Genesee County. Ellicott was named the land agent for the The Holland Land Company. In 1801, Ellicott established "The Holland Land Office" in Batavia, which was the county seat for Genesee County. At that time, Genesee County was the entire Holland Purchase! Batavia was the core from which the rest of western New York was opened for settlement and development. The phrase "doing a land office business", which denotes an extremely prosperous business, comes from this Holland Land Office. Batavia is still the county seat of Genesee County. However, the modern Genesee County is just one of the many counties formed from the from the original Genesee County. The Holland Land Office still stands in Batavia. It is now a museum and a National Historic Landmark. Batavia was the core from which the rest of western New York was opened for settlement and development. I suppose that might have been the reason that someone believed that Batavia was at one time the capital of New York State. LexAnn Cooper, formerly of Batavia, NY
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