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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Riverton, New
York was a planned community built in 1973 in the town of Henrietta, New
York, along the Genesee River. Riverton was seventh of the thirteen
communities receiving Federal guarantee assistance from HUD as part of
their New Communities Program created by the Urban Growth and New
Community Development Act of 1970.[1] $12 million dollars was earmarked
for the community. Riverton was supposed to encompass a 2,335-acre (9
km2) land area bordered on the north by the New York State Thruway, on
the west by the Genesee River, on the east by East River Rd., and on the
south by the Rush-Henrietta town line, with some development continuing
east along Erie Station Rd. Original plans called for construction to
occur for a 16 year period and eventually house over 25,000 people, with
the community including an 18 hole golf course, 12 swimming pools, 3
artificial lakes, a marina on the Genesee, and commercial and industrial
centers.
