Wadsworth Junction

This spot has been a meeting place ever since the Genesee Valley Canal opened in 1840. Known as Cox 's Basin, boats were turned around here. When railroads replaced the canal after 1880, it served as the junction point for Lehigh Vally trains traveling between Buffalo and Geneva and for Pennsylvania trains traveling between Rochester and Hinsdale. This place was named Wadsworth Junction for the Wadsworth family who owned much of the adjacent land. Today, a large portion of the rail beds have been transformed into the Genesee Valley Greenway and the Lehigh Valley Trail, which intersect here.