tlie daughter of Mary Jemison, the ' ' white captive of the Gene- 

 see " once lived. The former was brought from Caneadea and 

 the latter from Gardeau. Near them is buried Mary Jemison, 

 whose career among the Indians is a classic of the pioneer his- 

 tory of western New York. In 1758 she was captured by In- 

 dians at her home in Adams Coimty, Penn., was taken first to 

 Fort DuQuesne (Pittsburgh) and later farther down the Ohio. 

 She was adopted by the Indians, married among them, and bore 

 children. Before she was twenty years old she journeyed with 

 her Indian relatives to the Seneca Village of Little Beard's Town, 

 near Cuylerville on the Genesee river. At the Big Tree CouneiJ 

 in Geneseo in 1797 she was granted nearly 18,000 acres in the 

 Genesee Valley, known as the Gardeau tract. She died in 1833 

 and was first buried at Buffalo. When her grave was threat- 

 ened by civic improvements in 1874 her remains were taken to 

 their present resting place. Over her grave is a beautiful bronze 

 statue, by H. K. Bush-Brown, representing the captive in Indian 

 garb, with infant on her back, as she tramped with her captors 

 from the valley of the Ohio to the valley of the Genesee. 



At the intersection of the road from Castile with the main 

 road through the park stands the monument of the First New 

 York Dragoons, originally erected on the right bank of the river, 

 but moved recently to its present location at the request of the 

 surviving veterans. 



Various parts of the park were used by Dr. Letchworth as 

 farms and pastures, but these uses have been discontinued since 

 Dr. Letchworth 's death; and part of the eligible ground hai> 

 been used for an arboretum which was begun under the direc- 

 tion of the late Dr. Charles M. Dow of Jamestown, when he was 

 Director of the park. 



Besides the buildings previously mentioned, there are several 

 others erected before the park was given to the state, notably 

 those called Lauterbrunnen, now the superintendent's home; 

 Prospect Home, now the Labor Center; and Chestnut Lawn. 



There are many remarkable viewpoints in the park, accessible 

 by roadways and paths. From the foot-path on the Erie rail- 

 road bridge, which spans the river just above the Upper Falls, 

 one has a superb panorama both upstream and downstream. 

 Almost directly below him, at a dizzy distance, is the crest of 

 the Upper Falls which plunges 71 feet more to the next reach 

 of the river. Leaving the bridge by long stairways, the visitor 

 can see the Upper Falls from below, as one used to view the 

 Canadian Fall at Niagara near the Rock of Ages. Strolling 

 downstream half a mile he comes to the Middle Fall, with a 

 drop of 107 feet. Continuing downstream to a jutting point 

 near the entrance to the Glen Iris grounds, he has a superb view 

 of the walls of the gorge. Half a mile farther down are Inspira- 

 tion Point, commanding a fine view upstream; and Cole's Cliff, 



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