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
Batey (sugar workers' town) Batey (sugar workers' town) A batey (plural is bateyes) is a settlement around a sugar mill. They can be found in Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In Cuba and the Dominican Republic, the basic conglomerate unit of a sugar production is usually called an "ingenio." An ingenio consists of a central administrative office, a sugar cane mill, a sugar refinery, the town around the office and refinery, sugar fields ("campos de caña"), and miscellaneous production equipment like trucks, trains, tractors, weighing scales, and housing for workers, usually in what is called a "batey." A batey is a company town