Ontario County Courthouse and Treaty Ground
The 1794 treaty ground and 1873 suffrage trial site on North Main Street, where Haudenosaunee leaders gather each November 11 for Treaty Day
The Ontario County Courthouse at 27 North Main Street in Canandaigua is an active courthouse and two-layer historical landmark. The 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, signed at the north end of this lake by fifty-nine Haudenosaunee sachems and Colonel Timothy Pickering as the official agent of President George Washington, established terms of peace and friendship that the U.S. government continues to fulfill today through an annual cloth annuity payment to the Six Nations. The Haudenosaunee return to the courthouse grounds each November 11 for a public commemoration ceremony they call brightening the chain of friendship. The same courthouse building was the site, on June 18, 1873, of the trial of Susan B. Anthony, charged with voting in the 1872 presidential election. The judge had written his verdict in advance. Anthony was fined $100, which she refused to pay. A bust outside the courtroom carries the inscription: Justice Denied Here, June 1873. The Treaty Day ceremony is open to the public.
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