The Treaty of Hartford settled who owned the Genesee Country, but it did not settle what it would become. Who was the little-known visionary who saw an opportunity where everyone else saw only a land deal? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “Competing Dreams For The Genesee Country—Part I: John Livingston and the Lessees,” to uncover how a forgotten political insider launched the first great effort to shape the future of Western New York.
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