The 750-mile Empire State Trail links people with New York's natural beauty, cultural heritage, iconic landscapes, and outdoor recreation, while connecting urban centers, village main streets, and rural communities from New York City through the Hudson River Valley, west to Buffalo along the historic Erie Canal, and north to the Champlain Valley and Adirondacks. In Henrietta, New York, at the crossroads of Monroe County, access to visitor services, restaurants, parks, and recreational facilities accompanies a local history tied to Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath, for whom the town was named. Early settlers James and Rebecca Tinker built a cobblestone homestead there in 1830, and their family remained on the property for six generations before the home and surrounding 68 acres were transferred to the Town of Henrietta in 1991. Much of that land is now Tinker Nature Park, with hiking trails and the Hansen Nature Center, and the house, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, serves as the Tinker Homestead & Farm Museum. In 2017, five canal boats carried historic reenactors in a VoteTilla to mark the centennial of woman suffrage in New York State, traveling from Seneca Falls through Lock 33 to Rochester for a celebration at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. Susan B. Anthony had traveled with her family through Brighton to the Rochester area on the Erie Canal and settled on a farm in 1845, where their home became a gathering place for antislavery and women's rights activists including Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
