Caneadea is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. The population was 2,694 at the 2000 census. The name is from the natives and means “where the heavens rest on earth.”
The Town of Caneadea is in the northwest quadrant of the county.
The region was first settled around 1800. The Town of Caneadea was founded in 1808 from part of the Town of Angelica. However, the town was reduced to form other towns of the county: Friendship (1815), Rushford (1816), and Belfast (1824 and 1831). The Caneadea Reservation of the Seneca tribe was once located in the town, but they sold off their claims in 1825.
The former Genesee Valley Canal once passed through the town.
The Caneadea Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.3 square miles (94 km), of which, 35.5 square miles (92 km) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km) of it (2.23%) is water.
The Genesee River, an important and…
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