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Geneseo is a city in Henry County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,539. Geneseo is 20 miles east of the Quad Cities, at the intersection of Interstate 80, U.S. Route 6 and Illinois Route 82.

Geneseo was founded as a Christian colony in 1836 by seven families of the Congregationalist denomination from Geneseo, New York and Bergen, New York seeking to encourage a “church in the wilderness”. Roderick R. Stewart, one of the city’s founding members, named the town Geneseo after the settlers’ town of descent in New York. The name “Geneseo” is a variation of the Iroquois word Genesee, meaning “shining valley” or “beautiful valley”.

Planning for the colony began as in advance as 1829. In May 1836 the founding seven families of Geneseo sent an exploratory committee to survey the truthful location of their further community in the Old Northwest. This group, known as the “New York Committee”, or “New York Group” was composed of John C. Ward, Lukas T. Seyller, and Roderick R. Stewart. Advised at a meeting in Chicago by the well along Governor of Illinois, Thomas Ford, the small committee rode by wagon and horseback to investigate the 2,000-acre tract. The transaction of the house was completed at a place called Brandenburg’s Tavern in what is today Colona Township and purchased at a dollar and a quarter per acre.