Welcome to the Fallen Tree Inn and the Finger Lakes!

Let’s start by saying
“If you like wineries, Water, cycling, hiking, racing, shopping, food, breweries and just plain relaxing”, well you’ve hit GOLD. We’re in Geneva which means your close to the best hiking in Watkins Glen State Park with waterfalls, Seneca lake, Downtown Geneva with some of the best “farm to table restaurants” in the country, not to mention we’re just across from Belhurst Castle. If you love craft beer and wine? Look no further we’re on the famous Finger Lakes wine trail with over 150 wineries. Unlimited possibilities in & around Geneva

The Fallen Tree Inn is a charming home with three cozy bedrooms, a relaxing invite to the living room for a glass of wine or your favorite beverage. Sit outside by the fire pit, watch the wildlife or Read your favorite book.

With every stay you will get a completely Chocolates that are placed throughout the house.
A stay at The Fallen Tree Inn has endless possibilities to make wonderful memories with family and friends alike.

The Fallen Tree Inn is on the famous Finger Lake wine trail with some of the oldest vineyards in the country. Let yourself lose and taste some
of this Regions wine. Who knows you might bring some bottles home.

History of the Finger Lake region

Our lakes are old, natural, and non-manmade. Native American legend explains the Finger Lakes this way: the Creator looked upon this land with special favor and reached down to bless it, leaving the imprint of His hand, hence, the Finger Lakes.

Geology tells a different story. As the last ice age ended, the final glaciers covering what is now the northern reaches of the United States receded. The incredible grinding pressures of the receding glaciers gouged enormous holes in what is now the Finger Lakes region. These became not only our Finger Lakes, but also the magnificent geologic anomalies throughout the region that include our incredible gorges and numerous waterfalls

Geneva NewYork history

The area was long occupied by the Seneca tribe, which had established a major village of Kanadaseaga here by 1687.[7] The British helped fortify the village against the French of Canada during the Seven Years' War (locally known as the French and Indian War); later they added defensive fortifications against the Americans during the Revolutionary War. During the latter warfare, the punitive Sullivan Expedition of 1779 mounted by rebel forces destroyed many of the dwellings, as well as the winter stores of the people, and they abandoned the ruins. Following the war and the forced removal of the Seneca from their native land, European-Americans settled here about 1793. They developed a town encouraged by the Pulteney Association, which owned the land and was selling plots.

At the end of the Revolutionary War, Lt. Col. Seth Reed (né Read), who had fought at Bunker Hill, was one of many pioneers who moved from Massachusetts into Ontario County. By trade with the Seneca, he bought a tract of land eighteen miles in extent. (This was illegal, as only the US government was authorized to make land deals with the Native Americans.) This occurred in 1787, while his wife Hannah stayed in Uxbridge, Massachusetts with their family.[8] "Seth Read moved his wife Hannah and their family to Geneva, Ontario County, New York in the winter of 1790".[9]

The settlement at Geneva was not yet permanent; the European Americans continued to harass the Seneca on the frontier. In 1795 Read and his family removed to Erie, Pennsylvania, where they became the earliest European-American settlers.[10]

The "Village of Geneva" was incorporated in 1806, formally separating it from the surrounding area of Geneva Town. Later the village became a city through a 1871 charter.[11]

In the 1830s, a government surveyor named John Brink named both Geneva Lake and Lake Geneva in Wisconsin after Geneva, New York. Geneva, Nebraska, founded in 1871, is considered to have been named after the one in New York, rather than directly for the Swiss city.