SENECA FALLS  , a village of Seneca county, New York, U.S.A., in the township of Seneca Falls, on Seneca Outlet, or river (which connects Lake Seneca and Lake Cayuga), about 42 M . W.S.W. of Syracuse . Pop . (1900) 6519, of whom 8o, were foreign-born; (1905) 6733; (1910) 6588; of the town-ship, including the village (1910) 7407 . The village is served by the New York Central & Hudson River, the Lehigh Valley and electric suburban railways, and by the Seneca & Cayuga Canal . In the village are the Mynderse (public) Library and the Johnson Home for Old Ladies (1868) . Cayuga Lake Park, a pleasure resort, is 3 M. distant and is reached by electric railway . The village is the shipping point for a farming and dairying region . The river here falls 50 ft. and provides a good water power; among the manufactures are pumps and hydraulic machinery, woollen goods, wagons and farm implements . Seneca Falls was settled about 1790, and was first incorporated as a village in 1831, its charter as revised in 1902 being similar in some respects to that of a city .