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The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.]]> RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.]]> RICHES]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES.
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The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.]]> RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.]]> RICHES]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES.
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The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.]]> RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.]]> RICHES]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES.
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The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.]]> RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.]]> RICHES]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES.
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The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.]]> RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.]]> RICHES]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES.
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The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.]]> RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.]]> RICHES]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES.
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Geneva is a community in Seminole County. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucuan tribe as early as 2000 B.C.E. Between 1765 and 1766, John and William Bartram explored the St. John's River including the area that would become Geneva, which was inhabited at the time by the Seminole tribe formed in the 1760s. New settlers arrived and settled in Harney Cove during the 1843-1845 period. Harney Cove was renamed Geneva in 1880.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]>  ]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.]]> Museum of Geneva History. The photograph itself is also part of the original patent documentation.

Geneva is a community in Seminole County. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucuan tribe as early as 2000 B.C.E. Between 1765 and 1766, John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River, including the area that would become Geneva, which was inhabited at the time by the Seminole tribe formed in the 1760s. New settlers arrived and settled in Harney Cove during the 1843-1845 period. Harney Cove was renamed Geneva in 1880.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.]]>
The Society established the Museum of Geneva History, located at 165 First Street, in 1965. W. G. Kilbee and his wife donated the land for the museum's construction. The museum was dedicated in 1966, with Leo Rehbinder cutting the ribbon and Judge Don Cheney of Orlando making a speech. In 1977, a second larger room was added to the building. The Society also owns Fort Lane Park, a former fort from the Second Seminole Indian War (1837-1842).]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society]]> Museum of Geneva History
165 First Street
Geneva, Florida 32732]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society holds all rights to the items from the society as well as those items represented digitally on the RICHES MI. Contact the Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society for the proper permissions for the use of its items.]]>
During the Civil War, Lewis Powell fought with the Conferderacy's Second Florida Infantry, Company I and was wounded and captured at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. He was sent to a Union hospital in Pennsylvania and later in Baltimore, Maryland. However, Powell escaped the hospital and joined the Confederacy's 43rd Battalion Virginia Calvary.

In 1864, he joined the Confederate Secret Service and then returned to Baltimore on January 13, 1865. On April 13, 1865, Powell met with John Wilkes Booth, George Atzerodt, and David Herold to conspire to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and his associates. Powell was designated to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward, while Atzerody was designated to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson and Booth planned to assassinate Lincoln. Powell went to Seward's house to "deliver a letter," but there was a skirmish and, in the end, he stabbed and injured Seward, but failed to kill him.

Captured and tried, he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and treason, and hanged with the other conspirators on July 7, 1865. His body was buried in the prison courtyard and moved several times. At some point, a caretaker removed the skull, which ended up in the Ford Theater Museum. It was later taken to the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology. In the 1990s, when Native American tribes requested that the Smithsonian return the bones of Native Americans for a proper burial, a skull was found with a tag identifying it as belonging to Lewis Thornton Powell. In 1994, the skull was brought to Geneva, where his surviving nearest relative lived. A service was held and the skull was buried in the Geneva Cemetery near the grave of his mother, Patience Caroline Powell. His body was buried in a pauper's grave outside of Washinton, D.C.]]> The Smithsonian]]> The Smithsonian: Powell File: Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Museum of Geneva History, Geneva, Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.]]> Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.]]>