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Hall is a hamlet and census-designated place in Ontario County, New York, United States, located along State Route 14A in the Town of Seneca, near the city of Geneva and the Town of Geneva. Located in the Finger Lakes region, Hall has a fire department and a post office with a downtown zip code of 14463, though the urbanized area extends beyond this. Hall also has various agricultural enterprises, including a tractor retailer, a seed production company (Seedway), and a fertilizer company (Hall Fertilizer Corp.). Seedway, a subsidiary of Growmark, serves the entire Northeast and is headquartered in Hall. As of the 2010 census, Hall has a population of 216. With the exception of one Korean, t…
Its first post office opened in 1910. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 216 to 202 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
On the map
Hall on the map, 1902 to 1952
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hall. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1902Phelps sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hall.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Hall in 1896
Passages that mention Hall, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Hall ancestry. A series of sketches of the lineal ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley of Binghamton, N. Y1896 · page 300Read the page →
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In 1788 Brenton, or as he was then styled, " Hon. Brenton Hall, Esq.," became the representative of his native town of Wallingford in the General Assembly, and was repeatedly re-elected for fourteen years up to 1802. From 1794 to 1803 the records show that he was very active and influential in having the town of Meriden set off from Wallingford. There was great opposition to the
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Hall ancestry. A series of sketches of the lineal ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley of Binghamton, N. Y1896 · page 426Read the page →
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Lyman Knowlton Hall, born December lo, 1892, and died July 23, 1893, was the only child of Charles S. and Annie (Knowlton) Hall. With his mother's surname he bore the honored name of Lyman Hall, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, whose patriotic action in the early period of the Revolution was chiefly instrumental in bringing Georgia into line with her sister colonies.
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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