Institutional Buildings
The village had three churches, a school, and several cemeteries. The First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Yorkville laid its cornerstone in Seneca Village in 1853. A box put into the cornerstone contained a Bible, a hymn book, the church's rules, a letter with the names of its five trustees and copies of the newspapers, The Tribune and The Sun. Its sister church, known as Mother AME Zion, is in Harlem on 137th Street.
There was a school located in a church where 17-year-old Catherine Thompson taught the village's children.
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