Cuylerville is a hamlet in Livingston County

Livingston County, New York

As of the census of 2000, there were 64,328 people, 22,150 households, and 15,349 families residing in the county. The population density was 102 people per square mile . There were 24,023 housing units at an average density of 38 per square mile...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

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The latitude

Latitude

In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...

 of Cuylerville is 42.776N. The longitude

Longitude

Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....

 is -77.871W.

The community was named for William Cuyler.

The hamlet is located on the site of Little Beard's Town

Little Beard's Town

Little Beard's Town, also known as Chenussio and "Genesee Castle", was a powerful Seneca town in the Genesee River Valley near modern Leicester in Livingston County, New York, where Cuylerville stands today. It was named after its founder, Little Beard, a prominent Seneca sachem in the late 18th...

, a large Seneca Indian village destroyed in the Sullivan Campaign. Mary Jemison

Mary Jemison

Mary Jemison was an American frontierswoman and an adopted Seneca. When she was in her teens, she was captured in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania, from her home along Marsh Creek, and later chose to remain a Seneca....

, known as "the White Woman of the Genesee", lived here.Located near Cuylerville is the Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade

Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade

Boyd & Parker Park and Groveland Ambuscade is a historic park area located near Cuylerville in Livingston County, New York. The sites commemorate the Sullivan Expedition of the American Revolutionary War of September 1779....

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2009.