Seneca Falls

Seneca Falls is a town in the region of state. The birthplace of the women's rights movement in the 19th century, Seneca Falls is also widely believed to be the inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls in Frank Capra's holiday classic, It's A Wonderful Life.
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  • Type: Town with 8,850 residents
  • Description: town in Seneca County, New York, United States of America
  • Also known as: Seneca Falls town, New York”, “Seneca Falls, New York”, “Seneca Falls, NY”, and “Town of Seneca Falls
  • Postal code: 13148

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elizabeth Cady Stanton House and United States Post Office.

Historic building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is a historic house at 32 Washington Street in the village of Seneca Falls, New York. Built before 1830, it was the home of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton from 1847 to 1862.

Post office
US Post Office-Seneca Falls is a historic building located at Seneca Falls in . It was designed and built in 1932-1934 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James A.

Seneca Falls

Latitude
42.9107° or 42° 54′ 39″ north
Longitude
-76.7968° or 76° 47′ 48″ west
Population
8,850
Elevation
430 feet (131 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SFS
Open location code
87J5W663+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158573669
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5137625
Wiki­data ID
Q2270851
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Seneca Falls” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Seneca Falls
  • Bulgarian: Сенека Фолс
  • Catalan: Seneca Falls
  • Chechen: Сенека-Фоллс
  • Chinese: 塞內卡瀑布市
  • Chinese: 塞内卡瀑布城
  • Chinese: 塞尼卡福爾斯
  • Chinese: 紐約塞內卡福爾斯
  • Chinese: 色內加瀑布市
  • Chinese: 色内加瀑布市
  • Dutch: Seneca Falls
  • French: Seneca Falls
  • German: 0G7
  • German: Seneca Falls
  • Greek: Σένεκα Φολς, Νέα Υόρκη
  • Greek: Σένεκα Φολς
  • Haitian: Seneca Falls, New York
  • Haitian: Seneca Falls
  • Hebrew: סנקה פולס
  • Hungarian: Seneca Falls
  • Italian: Seneca Falls
  • Japanese: セネカ・フォールズ
  • Japanese: セネカフォールズ
  • Korean: 세네카 폴스
  • Korean: 세니카폴스
  • Korean: 세니커 폴스
  • Korean: 세니커폴스
  • Malay: Seneca Falls, New York
  • Mazanderani: سنکا فالز (نیویورک)
  • Mazanderani: سنکا فالز
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Seneca Falls
  • Persian: سنکا فالز
  • Polish: Seneca Falls
  • Serbian: Сенека Фолс
  • Serbo-Croatian: Seneca Falls, New York
  • Serbo-Croatian: Seneca Falls
  • Slovenian: Seneca Falls
  • South Azerbaijani: سنکا فالس، نیویورک
  • Spanish: Seneca Falls (Nueva York)
  • Spanish: Seneca Falls (pueblo)
  • Spanish: Seneca Falls
  • Tatar: Сенека-Фоллс
  • Turkish: Seneca Falls
  • Ukrainian: Сенека-Фоллс
  • Urdu: سنیکا فالز
  • Urdu: سینیکا فالز، نیو یارک

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Seneca Falls”. Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.