Genesee, derived from the Seneca word for "pleasant valley", may refer to:

Geographic features

Canada

* Genesee, Alberta, an unincorporated community

United States

Genesee, Colorado Genesee is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The populati ...

Genesee County, Michigan Genesee County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 406,211, making it the fifth-most populous county in Michigan, and the most populous in Mid Michigan. The county seat and largest city is ...

Genesee County, New York Genesee County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,388. Its county seat is Batavia. Its name is from the Seneca word Gen-nis'-hee-yo, meaning "the Beautiful Valley".THE AMERICAN REVIEW; ...

* Genesee Falls, New York, a town * Genesee, Idaho *

Genesee Theatre Genesee Theatre is a concert hall and movie palace in Waukegan, Illinois. Today, the venue has seats for 2,403 people and opened in 1927. It's both used as a vaudeville theater and cinema and hosts musical artists and shows. History In 1926, A.L ...

, Waukegan, Illinois * Genesee, Lansing, Michigan, a neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan * Genesee, Wisconsin, a town ** Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Genesee, Seattle, a neighborhood in West Seattle, Washington * Genesee Park (Seattle), a park in the Rainier Valley neighborhood of Seattle, Washington *

Genesee River The Genesee River ( ) is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York (state), New York in the United States. The river contains several waterfalls in New York at Letchworth State Park and Roch ...

, a river in north central Pennsylvania and western New York * Genesee Township, Whiteside County, Illinois *

Genesee Township, Michigan The Charter Township of Genesee, or Genesee Township, is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In the Public Land Survey System, the township is survey area township 8 north, range 7 east. The population was 20,581 ...

Genesee Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania Genesee Township is a township in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States and lies near the source of the Genesee River. The population was 729 at the 2020 census. The name Genesee derives from Indian term for "beautiful valley". Geography A ...

Genesee, New York Genesee is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Allegany County, New York, Allegany County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 1,653 at the 2020 census. Genesee is in the southwestern corner of the count ...

, a town * Genesee College, New York state *

Genesee Valley Greenway The Genesee Valley Greenway is a rail trail in western New York's Genesee River valley. The trail stretches for along a former Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way as well as adjacent land from the Genesee Valley Canal. The low grade path is ...

, a rail trail in western New York state *

Genesee Valley Park Genesee Valley Park, originally named "South Park", is located in the south side of Rochester, New York along the shores of the Genesee River. The New York State Barge Canal (the currently in-use portion of the Erie Canal) crosses the Genesee Ri ...

, New York

Products and companies

Genesee Brewing Company Genesee Brewing Company ( ) is an American brewery located along the Genesee River in Rochester, New York. From 2000 to 2009, the company was known as the High Falls Brewing Company. In 2009, High Falls was acquired by the capital investment fi ...

, a Rochester, New York, brewery **

Genesee Cream Ale Genesee Cream Ale is a cream ale produced by the Genesee Brewing Company in Rochester, New York. Introduced in 1960, Cream Ale receives the extra step of kräusening, a process in which finished beer is primed for carbonation with wort inste ...

, one of the brewery's brands *''

The Genesee Farmer ''The Genesee Farmer'' or ''Genesee Farmer'' was a very early periodical founded by Luther Tucker in 1831 in Rochester, New York. It was devoted to agriculture and horticulture as well as the domestic and rural economy. It was one of the earliest ...

'', an agriculture and horticulture periodical established in 1831 *

Genesee Country Village and Museum The Genesee Country Village and Museum is a 19th-century living history museum covering more than located in the town of Wheatland, New York, United States, in the small hamlet of Mumford, New York, Mumford, about from Rochester, New York, Roch ...

, a 19th-century living history museum located in New York *

Genesee and Wyoming Railroad The Genesee and Wyoming Railroad was a flagship short-line railroad owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. The G&W Railroad was the small Western NY salt-hauling railroad that ran between Retsof, New York, and Caledonia, New York, only long, and ...

, a railroad in western New York that operated from the 1890s to 2003 *

Genesee Valley Canal Railroad The Genesee Valley Canal Railroad was a part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system in western New York. It was built on the former Genesee Valley Canal alignment. History Genesee Valley Canal: 1836-1878 On May 6, 1836 an act was passed in New Yor ...

, a railroad in western New York state in the U.S. *

Genesee Valley Transportation Company The Genesee Valley Transportation Company (GVT Rail), based in Batavia, New York, is a holding company for several short-line railroads located in New York and Pennsylvania. Founded by Jeffrey Baxter, Charles Riedmiller, John Herbrand, Michael Tho ...

, parent company of multiple New York state and Pennsylvania short-line railroads *

Genesee & Wyoming Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) is an American short line railroad holding company, that owns or maintains an interest in 122 railroads in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom; and formerly in Australia. ...

, a railroad operating company based in Greenwich, Connecticut in the U.S. *

Genesee (automobile) The Genesee was an American automobile manufactured in Batavia, New York in 1911. The car was named after Genesee County, in which Batavia was located. The Genesee was one of the largest cars available in the United States at the time, featuring ...

, a prototype car built in Batavia, New York in 1911

Other uses

* ''Genesee'' (train), a named passenger train of the United States, operated by the New York Central Railroad * Abbey of the Genesee, a Trappist monastic community in upstate New York. * , several ships of the United States Navy

People with the name and surname