The exhibits in this small museum detail the lives of the Senecas before and after European settlement. Included are part of a traditional long house and a log house similar to the settlers’ cabins. While we have become familiar with tales of broken treaties the story of what happened to the Senecas is a little shocking. In the 1960s the construction of Kinzua Dam flooded 10,000 acres of reservation land where the Senecas had lived since signing a treaty in 1794. Houses were bulldozed and burned and 600 families were forced to relocate far from their farmland, forest hunting land, and fishing streams which were all flooded as the lake filled.
The museum is accessible
The parking lot is large enough for RVs. Museum
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