This fascinating monument is found in Letchworth State Park, near the small town of Castile in upstate New York.
Mary Jamison, the White Woman of the Genesee, was captured by Indians from her Pennsylvania home at the young age of fifteen and brought to the Genesee Valley. Here, she married, raised her children and lived peacefully to the age of 90 amongst her adopted Seneca Nation people. Her cabin on the Grandeau Flats, just North of the falls was her home for many years.
Inscription:
To theMemory of MARY JEMISON,Whose home during more thanseventy years of a life of strange vicissitude was among the Senecasupon the banks of this river;and whose history,inseparably connected with that of this valleyhas caused her to be known as"The White Woman of the Genesee."
To theMemory of MARY JEMISON,Whose home during more thanseventy years of a life of strange vicissitude was among the Senecasupon the banks of this river;and whose history,inseparably connected with that of this valleyhas caused her to be known as"The White Woman of the Genesee."
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