Covert Historic District is a national

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located at

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Seneca County, New York Seneca County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,814. The primary county seat is Waterloo, moved there from the original county seat of Ovid in 1819. It became a two-shire county in 1822 ...

. The district includes 21 properties located in the hamlet of Covert. The district is primarily residential and structures represent a variety of functions and styles spanning the period from 1810 to 1920. The earliest structure was built as a

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and it also includes the Town Hall, First Baptist Church (and cemetery), a modest schoolhouse, and Grange Meeting Hall. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1980.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic districts in Seneca County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Seneca County, New York {{SenecaCountyNY-NRHP-stub