Back in the 1930s, Robert Moses proposed and started constructing a parkway that would run along the lake shore of Lake Ontario, connecting Niagara Falls, Rochester, Oswego, and ultimately Watertown, Massena, and Malone, roughly parallel to the local routes now known as NY 104 and NY 3. Only about 35 miles of the parkway were ultimately built west of Rochester, leaving a 30 mile gap between the Robert Moses Parkway in Fort Niagara to Lakeside Beach Park in Carlton, Orleans County.
Batavia is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, New York, United States. It is near the center of the county, surrounded by the Town of Batavia, which is a separate municipality. Its population as of the 2010 census was 15,465.
The Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in Genesee and Orleans counties in western New York. The refuge is located between the cities of Buffalo and Rochester and is operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Tillable acreage and agriculture is the most common land use around Batavia, which for anybody whose ever been out that area knows is good farm country, being part of the upper Geneese Valley.
Orleans County west of Rochester along Lake Ontario has a lot of acres of field crops grown, except right on the Niagara Escarpment which is more infertile and rocky.
