From Wikipedia.
Seneca Falls is reportedly the inspiration for the fictional city of Bedford Falls in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life."
The census of 2010 put the population at 9,040.
The town is on the northern part of the Finger Lakes District.
At the conclusion of the American Revolution, this area was part of the Central New York Military Tract of some 2 million acres of land set aside to compensate New York soldiers for serving in the war. The land would be given to the soldiers in lots of 600 acres in size. This caused a lot of growth in the area's population.
In 1818, a canal was completed connecting Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake an d these were later connected to the Erie Canal in 1828.
The Seneca Falls Convention was held there July 19-20, 1848, and was the first women's rights convention organized by women explicitly to discuss the subject. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was involved with this.
--Cooter
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