Canoga is a hamlet in the Town of Fayette, Seneca County, New York, United States, along Cayuga Lake. It is located southeast of the town of Seneca Falls, at an elevation of . The primary cross roads where the hamlet is located are N.Y. Route 89 and Canoga Road (CR 121).
The word Canoga, or "Ga-no-geh" as called by native Cayuga people, means "place of the sweet water".Canoga Creek Farm & Conservancy, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.
Canoga and the immediate area is home to some members of the Cayuga Nation.Cayuga Nation, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. Nearby at Canoga Cemetery is a historical monument marking the birthplace of Seneca Chief Red Jacket, although it is currently unknown as to where he was actually born.Red Jacket Birthplace Monument, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.Finger Lakes Times, WAY BACK WHEN IN SENECA COUNTY: Canoga Cemetery provides glimpse of area’s history by Walt Gable, Seneca County Historian, January 11, 2015, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. According to Haudenosaunee history and tradition, Chief Red Jacket was born in 1750 at the former Indian village of Skannayutenate along Canoga Creek which was later burned in 1779 by troops under the command of Colonel Henry Dearborn during the Sullivan Expedition of the American Revolutionary War.Access Genealogy, Red Jacket Monuments, July 19, 2013, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.Webpages by John Robertson, Skannayutenate , Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. As orator of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee, there are six stones at the base of the Chief Red Jacket birthplace monument mentioning each of the tribes belonging to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Cayuga Lake State Park and Seneca Falls Country Club are located north of Canoga on N.Y. Route 89.New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - Cayuga Lake State Park, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.Seneca Falls Country Club, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.
References
External links Cayuga Nation (official website) Chief Red Jacket birthplace monument New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - Cayuga Lake State Park Seneca Falls Country Club Canoga Creek Farm & Conservancy