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HICKORY HILL

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Site
Location
95 Keyes Road, Honeoye Falls, NY
Lat/Long
42.981452, -77.623891
Grant Recipient
Town of Rush
Historic Marker

HICKORY HILL

Inscription

HICKORY HILL
SETTLED BY SOLOMON SCIPIO,
FREE BLACK MAN, CA. 1808.
HALLOCK BROS. PURCHASED
PROPERTY 1866. PASSED TO KEYES
FAMILY, THEIR DESCENDANTS.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2017

This area was settled by a free black man named Solomon Scipio around 1808. In 1866 the Hallock brothers purchased the property and later the property was passed on to their sister Phebe Hallock Keyes. Following Keyes’ death the property was again passed on to her descendants within the Keyes family.