Photograph of Ashantee, the Avon home of Herbert and Martha Blow Wadsworth, with lawn, drive and tree in the foreground. It was constructed in the late 1880s. Herbert was a grandson of early Geneseo settler James Wadsworth.
Two photographs taken by Martha Blow Wadsworth (wife of Herbert Wadsworth) show the building of a dam to power a mill at Ashantee, roughly where Littleville Road crosses Conesus Creek. The captions read: "Upper side of dam at Ashantee in process of…