Canisteo, New York
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Canisteo is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 3,294 at the 2020 census. The name was taken from a former Native American village located there, and is Iroquoian in origin.
Canisteo Living Sign
Canisteo Graded School, 1891, looking east on Fifth Street.
Free Academy and Grades School, Canisteo, NY, c. 1900. The cupula housed the rotating telescope.
Canisteo Academy, early 20th century. Note the gas street lamp. Overhead is a telephone wire.
Steuben County, New York
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Steuben County (stu-BEN) is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,584. Its county seat is Bath. Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, a Prussian general who fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War, though it is not pronounced the same. The county is part of the Southern Tier region of the state.
Farmland in rural Steuben County
Steuben County Courthouse in Corning