JACK BERRY’S TOWN
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NYS Historic
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Site
- Memorial Park Clinton St., West Seneca, NY
- 42.8552, -78.753049
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West Seneca Historical Society
JACK BERRY’S TOWN
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JACK BERRY'S TOWNLARGEST POST REVOLUTIONARY
SENECA INDIAN VILLAGE
OCCUPIED THIS SITE
1780-1840
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2012
Formerly Jack Berry’s town, from 1780-1840, was one of the largest Seneca Indian communities of the post-Revolutionary War. The town was named after Major Jack Berry, a Seneca interpreter and Chief of the Seneca Tribe.