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Erie Canal

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The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). [1]

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Adirondack Mountains

The Adirondack Mountains form a massif in northeastern New York, United States.

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Adirondack Park

The Adirondack Park is a part of New York's Forest Preserve in northeastern New York, United States.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Albany and Schenectady Railroad

The Mohawk & Hudson Railroad was the first railroad built in the State of New York and one of the first railroads in the United States.

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Albany, New York

Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County.

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Allegheny River

The Allegheny River is a principal tributary of the Ohio River; it is located in the Eastern United States.

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Amos Eaton

Amos Eaton (May 17, 1776 – May 10, 1842) was an American botanist, geologist, and educator who is considered the founder of the modern scientific prospectus in education, which was a radical departure from the American liberal arts tradition of classics, religious classes, lecture, and recitation.

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Amsterdam (city), New York

Amsterdam is a city in Montgomery County, New York, United States.

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Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.

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Aqueduct (bridge)

Bridges for conveying water, called aqueducts or water bridges, are constructed to convey watercourses across gaps such as valleys or ravines.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Baldwinsville, New York

Baldwinsville is a village in Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.

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Barge

A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.

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Barrier ridge

The terms barrier ridge, a term of art in the Earth Sciences, especially Geology and sometimes barrier range (more common as a geography term) describing the existence of gross landforms describing long ridgelines which are particularly difficult to pass, especially in the context of being on foot or dependent upon other forms of animal powered transportation systems, in mountainous and sometimes hilly terrains.

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Batavia, New York

Batavia is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, New York, United States.

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Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright (October 10, 1770 – August 24, 1842) was an American civil engineer who was chief engineer of the Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

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Binghamton, New York

Binghamton is a city in, and the county seat of, Broome County, New York, United States.

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Black River (New York)

The Black River is a blackwater river that empties into the eastern end of Lake Ontario on the shore of Jefferson County, New York in the United States.

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Black River Canal

The Black River Canal was a canal built in northern New York in the United States to connect the Erie Canal to the Black River.

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Black Rock Lock

The Black Rock Lock located in Buffalo, New York is in length and wide.

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Black Rock, Buffalo

Black Rock, once an independent municipality, is now a neighborhood of the northwest section of the city of Buffalo, New York.

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Brewerton, New York

Brewerton is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Cicero in Onondaga County and the town of Hastings in Oswego County in the U.S. state of New York.

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Bridgewater Canal

The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.

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Brockport, New York

Brockport is a village in the Town of Sweden, with two tiny portions in the Town of Clarkson, in Monroe County, New York, USA.

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Brownsville, Pennsylvania

Brownsville is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, first settled in 1785 as the site of a trading post a few years after the pacification of the Iroquois enabled a post-Revolutionary war resumption of westward migration.

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Buffalo River (New York)

The Buffalo River drains a watershed in New York state, emptying into the eastern end of Lake Erie at the City of Buffalo.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Cadwallader Colden

Cadwallader Colden (7 February 1688 – 28 September 1776) was a physician, natural scientist, a lieutenant governor and acting Governor for the Province of New York.

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Camillus Erie Canal Park

Camillus Erie Canal Park is a town park in Camillus, New York that preserves a seven mile (11 km) stretch of the Erie Canal.

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Camillus, New York

Camillus is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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Canajoharie (village), New York

Canajoharie is a village in the Town of Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York, United States.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Canal du Midi

The Canal du Midi (meaning canal of the two seas) is a long canal in Southern France (le Midi).

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Canal Mania

Canal Mania was the period of intense canal building in England and Wales between the 1790s and 1810s, and the speculative frenzy that accompanied it in the early 1790s.

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Canalside

Canalside is a historic district within Buffalo, New York that was once the western terminus of the Erie Canal.

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Canandaigua (city), New York

Canandaigua (Utaʼnaráhkhwaʼ in Tuscarora) is a city in Ontario County, New York, United States.

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Canastota, New York

Canastota is a village located inside the Town of Lenox in Madison County, New York, United States.

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Cannonade

For the cannon see Carronade Cannonade (May 12, 1971 – August 3, 1993) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as the winner of the 1974 Kentucky Derby.

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Canvass White

Canvass White (September 8, 1790 – December 18, 1834) was an American engineer and inventor.

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Capital District, New York

The Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, refers to the metropolitan area surrounding Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York.

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Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.

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Cayuga County, New York

Cayuga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Cayuga Lake

Cayuga Lake  is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area (marginally smaller than Seneca Lake) and second largest in volume.

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Cayuga–Seneca Canal

The Cayuga–Seneca Canal is a canal in New York, United States.

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Cement

A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens and adheres to other materials, binding them together.

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Centreport Aqueduct

Centreport Aqueduct is a historic aqueduct located in the town of Brutus near Weedsport in Cayuga County, New York.

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Chambly Canal

The Chambly Canal is a National Historic Site of Canada in the Province of Quebec, running along the Richelieu River past Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Carignan, and Chambly.

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Champlain Canal

The Champlain Canal is a canal that connects the south end of Lake Champlain to the Hudson River in New York.

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Chemung Canal

The Chemung Canal is a former canal in New York, United States.

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Chenango Canal

The Chenango Canal was a towpath canal built and operated in the mid-19th century in central New York in the United States.

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Chenango River

The Chenango River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Loop

The Loop is the central business district or downtown area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Chittenango, New York

Chittenango is a village located in Madison County, New York, in the United States.

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Christopher Colles

Christopher Colles (1739–1816) was an Irish and American engineer and inventor, known for his work on numerous inland improvement projects, among them a water distribution system in New York City, canals to link the Atlantic seaboard to the American interior, and a road atlas of the northeastern United States.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, and railways.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Clyde River (New York)

The Clyde River is a main tributary which feeds the Seneca River in Seneca County, New York, United States.

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Clyde, New York

Clyde is a village in Wayne County, New York, United States.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Cohoes, New York

Cohoes, New York is an incorporated city located at the northeast corner of Albany County in the U.S. state of New York.

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Corn Laws

The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and grain ("corn") enforced in Great Britain between 1815 and 1846.

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Cranesville, New York

Cranesville is a populated place situated in Montgomery County, New York.

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Crescent, New York

Crescent is a hamlet in the town of Halfmoon, New York.

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Cumberland Gap

The Cumberland Gap is a narrow pass through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains, near the junction of the U.S. states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

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Cumberland Narrows

The Cumberland Narrows (or simply "The Narrows") is a water gap in western Maryland in the United States, just west of Cumberland.

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Cumberland, Maryland

Cumberland is a city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland, United States.

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Cut (earthmoving)

In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock material from a relative rise (elevated landscape) to an earlier section of the route is cut out to make way for a further section of the route, whether canal, road or railway line.

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Day Peckinpaugh

Day Peckinpaugh is a historic canal motorship berthed at the Matton Shipyard on Peebles Island, Cohoes in Albany County, New York.

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Debtors' prison

A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769February 11, 1828) was an American politician and naturalist who served as a United States Senator, Mayor of New York City and sixth Governor of New York.

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DeWitt, New York

DeWitt is a town (township) in Onondaga County, New York, USA.

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Dolomite

Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Eider Canal

The Eider Canal (also called the Schleswig-Holstein Canal) was an artificial waterway in southern Denmark (later northern Germany) which connected the North Sea with the Baltic Sea by way of the rivers Eider and Levensau.

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Eighteen Mile Creek (Niagara County)

Eighteen Mile Creek, or Eighteenmile Creek, is a tributary of Lake Ontario located entirely in Niagara County, New York in the United States.

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Elbridge, New York

Elbridge is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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Elkanah Watson

Elkanah Watson (January 22, 1758 – December 5, 1842) was a visionary traveler and writer, agriculturist and canal promoter, banker and businessman.

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Elmira, New York

Elmira is a city in Chemung County, New York, United States.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Enlarged Double Lock No. 23, Old Erie Canal

Enlarged Double Lock No.

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Enlarged Double Lock No. 33 Old Erie Canal

Enlarged Double Lock No.

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Enlarged Erie Canal Historic District (Discontiguous)

Enlarged Erie Canal Historic District (Discontiguous) is a national historic district located at Cohoes in Albany County, New York.

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Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex

Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex is a national historic district located at Port Byron and Mentz in Cayuga County, New York.

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Erie Canal Museum

The Erie Canal Museum is a historical museum about the Erie Canal located in Syracuse, New York.

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Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor

The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Area in New York State.

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Fairport, New York

Fairport is a village located in the Town of Perinton, which is part of Monroe County, New York.

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Finger Lakes

The Finger Lakes are a group of 11 long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes in an area called the Finger Lakes region in Central New York, in the United States.

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Fort Hunter, New York

Fort Hunter is a hamlet in the Town of Florida in Montgomery County, New York, west of the capital at Albany, on the south bank of the Mohawk River and on the northeast bank of Schoharie Creek.

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Fort Plain, New York

Fort Plain is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States.

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Frances Milton Trollope

Frances Milton Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863) was an English novelist and writer who published as Mrs.

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Frankfort (town), New York

Frankfort is a town in Herkimer County, New York, United States.

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Gaps of the Allegheny

The gaps of the Allegheny, meaning gaps in the Allegheny Ridge (now given the technical name Allegheny Front) in west-central Pennsylvania, is a series of escarpment eroding water gaps (notches or small valleys) along the saddle between two higher barrier ridgelines in the eastern face atop the Allegheny Ridge or Allegheny Front escarpment.

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Genealogy

Genealogy (from γενεαλογία from γενεά, "generation" and λόγος, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.

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Genesee River

The Genesee River is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York in the United States.

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Genesee Valley Canal

The Genesee Valley Canal is a former canal that operated in central New York between 1840 and 1877.

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Genesee Valley Canal Railroad

The Genesee Valley Canal Railroad was a part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system in central New York.

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Genesee Valley Park

Genesee Valley Park is located in the south side of Rochester, New York along the shores of the Genesee River.

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George Pataki

George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 53rd Governor of New York (1995–2006).

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 –, 1799), known as the "Father of His Country," was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.

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Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris I (30 January 1752 – 6 November 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.

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Grand Canal (China)

The Grand Canal, known to the Chinese as the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal (Jīng-Háng Dà Yùnhé), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the longest as well as one of the oldest canal or artificial river in the world and a famous tourist destination.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author.

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Herkimer (town), New York

Herkimer is a town in Herkimer County, New York, United States, southeast of Utica.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Historic districts in the United States

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant.

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Holland Land Company

The Holland Land Company was an unincorporated syndicate of thirteen Dutch investors from Amsterdam who in 1792 and 1793 purchased the western two-thirds of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, an area that afterward was known as the Holland Purchase.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.

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Ilion, New York

Ilion is a village in Herkimer County, New York, United States.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Irondequoit Creek

Irondequoit Creek is a stream in eastern Monroe County, New York that feeds Irondequoit Bay.

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Jacksonburg, New York

Jacksonburg or Jacksonburgh is a hamlet located on NY 5S southwest of the city of Little Falls in Herkimer County, New York.

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James Geddes (engineer)

James Geddes (July 22, 1763 – August 17, 1838) was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and was a prominent engineer, surveyor, New York State legislator and U.S. Congressman who was instrumental in the planning of the Erie Canal and other canals in the United States.

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Jesse Hawley (merchant)

Jesse Hawley (May 11, 1773 – January 10, 1842) was a flour merchant in Geneva, New York who became an early and major proponent of building of the Erie Canal.

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Jordan Canal Park

Jordan Canal Park in Jordan, New York includes the Jordan Aqueduct, which carried the Erie Canal over Skaneateles Creek.

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Jordan, New York

Jordan is a village in Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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Joseph Ellicott (surveyor)

Joseph Ellicott (November 1, 1760 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania – August 19, 1826 in New York City) was an American surveyor, city planner, land office agent, lawyer and politician of the Quaker faith.

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Judge

A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Keuka Lake

Keuka Lake is one of the major Finger Lakes in the U.S. state of New York.

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Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain (French: Lac Champlain) (Abenaki: Pitawbagok) (Mohawk: Kaniatarakwà:ronte) is a natural freshwater lake in North America mainly within the borders of the United States (in the states of Vermont and New York) but partially situated across the Canada–U.S. border, in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lakes to Locks Passage

The Lakes to Locks Passage is a scenic byway in northeastern New York in the United States and in southern Quebec in Canada.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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List of canals in New York

The following canals have existed in New York, United States.

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List of canals in the United States

The following is a list of canals in the United States.

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List of surveying instruments

Instruments used in surveying include.

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Little Falls (city), New York

Little Falls is a city in Herkimer County, New York, United States.

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Lock (water navigation)

A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.

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Lockport (city), New York

Lockport is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Low Bridge (song)

The popular song "Low Bridge, Everybody Down" was written in 1905 by Thomas S. Allen after Erie Canal barge traffic was converted from mule power to engine power, raising the speed of traffic.

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Lumber

Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

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Lyons (hamlet), New York

Lyons is a hamlet in Wayne County, New York, in the United States.

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Lyons, New York

Lyons is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States.

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Macedon (hamlet), New York

Macedon is a hamlet located in the Town of Macedon in Wayne County, New York, United States.

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Macedon, New York

Macedon is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States.

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Main Line of Public Works

The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation supporting a vision passed in 1826 — a collection of various long proposed canal and road projects that became a canal system (1824 proposals and studies) and later added railroads (amendments in 1828) designed to cross the breadth of Pennsylvania (mainly, southern) with the visionary goal of providing the best commercial means of transportation between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Mathematics education

In contemporary education, mathematics education is the practice of teaching and learning mathematics, along with the associated scholarly research.

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Mays Point, New York

Mays Point is a hamlet in the Town of Tyre, Seneca County, New York near the Wayne and Cayuga county lines.

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Mechanical advantage

Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.

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Mentz, New York

Mentz is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.

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Mohawk River

The Mohawk River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Mohawk, Montgomery County, New York

Mohawk is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States.

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Monongahela River

The Monongahela River — often referred to locally as the Mon — is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Montezuma Marsh

Montezuma Marsh is a marsh at the northern end of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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Montezuma, New York

Montezuma is a Town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.

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Montgomery County, New York

Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Navigable aqueduct

Navigable aqueducts (sometimes called water bridges) are bridge structures that carry navigable waterway canals over other rivers, valleys, railways or roads.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Power Authority

The New York Power Authority (NYPA), officially the Power Authority of the State of New York, is the largest state public power organization in the United States.

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New York State Canal Corporation

The New York State Canal Corporation is responsible for the oversight, administration and maintenance of the New York State Canal System, which consists of the Erie Canal, Cayuga–Seneca Canal, Oswego Canal and Champlain Canal.

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New York State Canal System

The New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal) is a successor to the Erie Canal and other canals within New York.

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New York State Library

The New York State Library was established in 1818 to serve the government of the state.

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New York State Museum

The New York State Museum is a research-backed institution in Albany, New York, United States.

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New York State Thruway

The New York State Thruway, often called simply the Thruway, is a system of limited-access highways located within the state of New York in the United States.

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Newark, New York

Newark is a village in Wayne County, New York, U.S., south east of Rochester and west of Syracuse.

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Niagara Escarpment

The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in the United States and Canada that runs predominantly east/west from New York, through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois.

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Niagara River

The Niagara River is a river that flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.

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Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct

Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct is a restored stone and wood aqueduct of the Erie Canal over Nine Mile Creek in Camillus, New York, United States.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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North Gates, New York

North Gates is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Gates, in Monroe County, New York, United States.

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Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia – locally referred to as NOVA – comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Ohio and Erie Canal

The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio.

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Ohio Country

The Ohio Country (sometimes called the Ohio Territory or Ohio Valley by the French) was a name used in the 18th century for the regions of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake Erie.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Old Erie Canal State Historic Park

The Old Erie Canal State Historic Park encompasses a linear segment of the original Erie Canal's Long Level section.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Olean, New York

Olean is a city in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.

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Oneida Lake

Oneida Lake is the largest lake entirely within New York State, with a surface area of.

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Oneida River

The Oneida River is a river that forms a portion of the boundary between Oswego and Onondaga counties in central New York.

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Onondaga Lake

Onondaga Lake is a lake in Central New York, immediately northwest of and adjacent to Syracuse, New York.

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Onondaga Limestone

The Onondaga Limestone is a group of hard limestones and dolostones of Devonian age that form an important geographic feature in some areas in which it outcrops, in others; especially its Southern Ontario portion, the formation can be less prominent as a local surface feature.

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Oswego Canal

The Oswego Canal is a canal in the New York State Canal System located in New York, United States.

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Oswego, New York

Oswego is a city in Oswego County, New York, United States.

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Pack animal

A pack animal or beast of burden is an individual or type of working animal used by humans as means of transporting materials by attaching them so their weight bears on the animal's back, in contrast to draft animals which pull loads but do not carry them.

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Palmyra (town), New York

Palmyra is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States.

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Palmyra (village), New York

Palmyra is a village in Wayne County, New York, United States.

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Patowmack Canal

The Patowmack Canal is a series of five inoperative canals located in Maryland and Virginia, United States, that was designed to bypass rapids in the Potomac River upstream of the present Washington, D.C. area.

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Pendleton, New York

Pendleton is a town on the southern edge of Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Perinton, New York

Perinton (originally Perrinton (in federal censuses) and sometimes Perrington when still part of Ontario County) is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Pittsford (village), New York

Pittsford is a village in Monroe County, New York, United States.

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Pittsford, New York

Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States.

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Port Byron, New York

Port Byron is a village in Cayuga County, New York, United States.

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Portage

Portage or portaging is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is located within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands into the Chesapeake Bay.

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Quaternary glaciation

The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Quaternary Ice Age or Pleistocene glaciation, is a series of glacial events separated by interglacial events during the Quaternary period from 2.58 Ma (million years ago) to present.

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Rexford, New York

Rexford is a hamlet in Saratoga County, New York, United States, located on the north bank of the Mohawk River.

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Richelieu River

The Richelieu River rises at Lake Champlain, from which it flows to the north in the province of Quebec, Canada and empties into the St. Lawrence river.

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River engineering

River engineering is the process of planned human intervention in the course, characteristics, or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit.

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Rochester Subway

The Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway, more commonly known as the Rochester Subway was a light rail rapid transit line in the city of Rochester, New York from 1927 to 1956.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Rome, New York

Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state.

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Ronald W. Clark

Ronald William Clark (2 November 1916 – 9 March 1987) was a British author of biography, fiction and non-fiction.

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Rotterdam (town), New York

Rotterdam is a town in Schenectady County, New York, United States.

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Saint Lawrence River

The Saint Lawrence River (Fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning "big waterway") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America.

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Saint Lawrence Seaway

The Saint Lawrence Seaway (la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as the western end of Lake Superior.

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Salina, New York

Salina is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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Samuel Hopkins Adams

Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 26, 1871 – November 16, 1958) was an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism and muckraking.

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Samuel Wilkeson

Samuel Wilkeson (1781–1848) was mayor of Buffalo, New York, serving 1836–1837.

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Schenectady, New York

Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.

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Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site

Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, also known as Erie Canal National Historic Landmark, is a historic district that includes the ruins of the Erie Canal aqueduct over Schoharie Creek, and a long part of the Erie Canal, in the towns of Glen and Florida within Montgomery County, New York.

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Scotia, New York

Scotia is a village in Schenectady County, New York, United States, incorporated in 1904.

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Seneca Lake (New York)

Seneca Lake is the largest of the glacial Finger Lakes of the U.S. state of New York, and the deepest lake entirely within the state.

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Seneca River (New York)

The Seneca River flows through the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York in the United States.

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Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District

Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District is a national historic district located at Montezuma and Tyre in Cayuga and Seneca Counties, New York.

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Speculation

Speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable at a future date.

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Spencerport, New York

Spencerport is a village in Monroe County, New York, United States, and a suburb of Rochester, New York.

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St. Johnsville (village), New York

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St. Johnsville, New York

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Stump harvesting

In plantation forests in parts of Europe, the tree stumps left after falling are now sometimes pulled out of the ground to supply wood fuel for biomass power stations.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River (Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the northeastern United States.

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Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Territorial dispute

A territorial dispute is a disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more territorial entities or over the possession or control of land, usually between a new state and the occupying power.

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The Battery (Manhattan)

The Battery (also commonly known as Battery Park) is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Post-Standard

The Post-Standard is a major newspaper serving the greater Syracuse, New York metro area.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thirteen Colonies

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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Thomas S. Allen

Thomas S. Allen (1876, Natick, Massachusetts – 1919, Boston, Massachusetts), an early figure in Tin Pan Alley, was an American vaudeville composer, manager, and violinist.

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Tonawanda (city), New York

Tonawanda (formally City of Tonawanda, from Tahnawá•teh meaning "confluent stream" in TuscaroraRudes, B. Tuscarora English Dictionary Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999) is a city in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Tonawanda (town), New York

Tonawanda (formally, the Town of Tonawanda) is a town in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Tonawanda Creek

Tonawanda Creek is a small tributary of the Niagara River in Western New York, United States.

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Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.

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Towpath

A towpath is a road or trail on the bank of a river, canal, or other inland waterway.

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Tribes Hill, New York

Tribes Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Towns of Mohawk (80%) and Amsterdam (20%) in Montgomery County, New York, United States.

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Troy, New York

Troy is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Rensselaer County.

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Tyre, New York

Tyre is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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Utica, New York

Utica is a city in the Mohawk Valley and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States.

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Viaduct

A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Vischer Ferry, New York

Vischer Ferry is a hamlet in the town of Clifton Park in Saratoga County, New York, United States, along the Mohawk River.

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Wagon train

A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together.

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Water gap

A water gap is a gap that flowing water has carved through a mountain range or mountain ridge.

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Waterford, New York

Waterford is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

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Watervliet Side Cut Locks

Watervliet Side Cut Locks, also known as the West Troy Side Cut Locks and "Double Locks," is a historic set of canal locks located at Watervliet in Albany County, New York.

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Watervliet, New York

Watervliet is a city in Albany County in the U.S. state of New York.

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Weedsport, New York

Weedsport is a village in Cayuga County, New York, United States.

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Weigh lock

A weigh lock on the Lehigh Canal around 1873 A weigh lock is a specialized canal lock designed to determine the weight of barges in order to assess toll payments based upon the weight and value of the cargo carried.

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Welland Canal

The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Ontario, Canada, connecting Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

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West Shore Railroad

The West Shore Railroad was the final name of a railroad that ran from Weehawken, New Jersey, which is across the Hudson River from New York City, north along the west shore of the river to Albany, New York and then west to Buffalo.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.

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Western Maryland

Western Maryland is the portion of the U.S. state of Maryland that typically consists of Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties.

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Western New York

Western New York is the westernmost region of the state of New York.

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Western Pennsylvania

Western Pennsylvania refers to the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Wheeling, West Virginia

Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Whiskey Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington.

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Whisky

Whisky or whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash.

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Whitesboro, New York

Whitesboro (called Che-ga-quat-ka by the Haudenosaunee) is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States.

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Wood Creek

Wood Creek in Central New York State flows westward from the city of Rome, New York to Oneida Lake.

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Working animal

A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks.

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Youghiogheny River

The Youghiogheny River, or the Yough for short, is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Canal

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