Seneca Lake

Seneca Lake is a long, deep Finger Lake in the homeland of the Haudenosaunee. Its steep-sided basin extends south from the Seneca River, with wooded hills and fertile land along its shores. Native towns stood around the lake and neighbouring valleys. In 1779 an American army under John Sullivan reached Seneca Lake and destroyed villages and food stores in the surrounding country during its campaign against British-allied Haudenosaunee communities.