Catherine's Town Catherine's Town Catherine's Town was a Seneca village, ("Queanettquaga," or "Sheoquago") named informally for a prominent Seneca woman, Catherine Montour. It was located at the south end of Seneca Lake, near present-day Watkins Glen (and the towns of Catharine, Montour, and Montour Falls, all named for Catherine Montour) in what is now Schuyler County, New York. The Seneca leader Red Jacket was said to have practiced his speeches at Shequaga Falls, located nearby in the present-day Town of Montour Falls. According to "Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley, Etc..," he was also buried there. Catherine's Town was destroyed by the
Town a district of Edinburgh – actually the Georgian centre. A "town" in Scotland has no specific legal meaning and (especially in areas which were or are still Gaelic-speaking) can refer to a mere collection of buildings (e.g. a "farm-town" or in Scots "ferm-toun"), not all of which might be inhabited, or to an inhabited area of any size which is not otherwise described in terms such as city, burgh, etc. Many locations of greatly different size will be encountered with a name ending with "-town", "-ton", "-toun" etc. (or beginning with the Gaelic equivalent "baile" etc.). A burgh (pronounced "burruh")