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DeRuyter Reservoir
DeRuyter Reservoir (also known as Tioughnioga Lake) is a man-made lake located north of Puckerville, New York. Fish species present in the lake include smallmouth bass, pickerel, yellow perch, rock bass, black bullhead, common sunfish, and walleye. There is access by fee on the south shore at the general store. The reservoir was constructed from 1861 to 1863 to supply water for the Erie Canal but by the following year had proved to hold insufficient water. The dam has been worked on at least twice, draining the lake by several inches each time. History In 1856, an estimate for a reservoir on Limestone Creek put the cost at $118,367.55. Construction of the reservoir was authorized by the Canal Board in January 1861, and it was opened in 1863. Charles A. Beach was in charge of initial construction. The upper Tioughnioga Creek was diverted into the reservoir. The initial purpose was to provide additional water to the Erie Canal during the dry season. In 1862, the reservoir was ...
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Madison County, New York
Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 68,016. Its county seat is Wampsville. The county is named after James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, and was first formed in 1806. The county is part of the Central New York region of the state. Madison County is part of the Syracuse metropolitan area, and is home to both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum. History Indigenous peoples had occupied areas around Oneida Lake for thousands of years. The historic Oneida Indian Nation is an Iroquoian-speaking people who emerged as a culture in this area about the fourteenth century and dominated the territory. They are one of the Five Nations who originally comprised the Iroquois Confederacy or '' Haudenosaunee''. English colonists established counties in eastern present-day New York State in 1683; at the time, the territory of the prese ...
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Black Bullhead
The black bullhead or black bullhead catfish (''Ameiurus melas'') is a species of Ameiurus, bullhead catfish. Like other bullhead catfish, it has the ability to thrive in waters that are low in oxygen, brackish, turbid, and/or very warm. It also has barbels located near its mouth, a broad head, spiny fins, and no scales. It can be identified from other bullheads as the barbels are black, and it has a tan crescent around the tail. Its caudal fin is truncated (squared off at the corners). Like virtually all catfish, it is nocturnal, preferring to feed at night, although young feed during the day. It generally does not get as large as the channel catfish, channel or blue catfish, with average adult weights are in the range, and almost never as large as . It has a typical length of , with the largest specimen being , making it the largest of the bullheads. It is typically black or dark brown on the dorsal side of its body and yellow or white on the ventral side. Like most of the bu ...
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Lakes Of New York (state)
This is a list of lakes in the state of New York in the United States. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. * Adirondack Lake * Ampersand Lake * Atwood Lake * Avalanche Lake * Augur Lake * Babcock Lake * Bailey Pond * Ballston Lake * Basket Pond * Bass Lake * Bear Cub Pond * Beaverdam Lake * Big Diamond Pond * Big Moose Lake * Blackfoot Pond * Black Lake * Blue Mountain Lake * Brantingham Lake * Brydon Lake * Buck Horn Lake * Busfield Pond * Cables Lake * East Canada Lake * West Canada Lake * Canadice Lake * Canaan Lake * Canadarago Lake * Canandaigua Lake * Canopus Lake * Caroga Lake * Catlin Lake * Cayuga Lake * Cayuta Lake * Cazenovia Lake * Chadwick Lake * Chateaugay Lake * Chautauqua Lake * Chazy Lake * China Pond * Chisholm Pond * Clapper Lake * Columbia Lake * Combs Lake * Conesus Lake * Cossayuna Lake * Cranberry Lake * Cross Lake * Dart Lake * Lake Delaware * Delta Lake ...
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Rome Sentinel
''The Daily Sentinel'' is a newspaper serving the Utica-Rome metropolitan area in Central New York. It is based in Rome, New York and has an office in Utica, New York. History Earlier Rome papers in the 1820s sharing the same publisher included the ''Rome Telegraph'' and ''Democratic Sentinel''. The two began publishing as the ''Rome Sentinel'' (including ''Rome Weekly Sentinel'' and ''Rome Daily Sentinel'') in the 1840s. Since 1864, the ''Sentinel'' has been family-owned. Through marriage, the name of the owning family has changed from Kessinger to Barnard to Waters. Since as early as 1855, ''Sentinel'' articles, editorials, and photos have been reprinted or used as sources by other papers such as ''The New York Times'', as well as the Associated Press. The ''Sentinel'' covered the activities at nearby Griffiss Air Force Base, including the presence of nuclear weapons there, until the closure of Griffiss in 1994. The Sentinel company founded a radio station, WRUN, which sign ...
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The Post-Standard
''The Post-Standard'' is a newspaper serving the greater Syracuse, New York, metro area. Published by Advance Publications, it and sister website Syracuse.com are among the consumer brands of Advance Media New York, alongside NYUp.com and ''The Good Life: Central New York'' magazine. ''The Post-Standard'' is published seven days a week and is home-delivered to subscribers on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. History ''The Post-Standard'' was founded in 1829 as ''The Onondaga Standard''. The first issue was published on September 10, 1829, after Vivus W. Smith consolidated the ''Onondaga Journal'' with the ''Syracuse Advertiser'' under ''The Onondaga Standard'' name. Through the 1800s, it was known variously as ''The Weekly Standard'', ''The Daily Standard'', and ''The Syracuse Standard''. On July 10, 1894, ''The Syracuse Post'' was first published. On December 26, 1898, the owners of ''The Daily Standard'' and ''The Syracuse Post'' merged the papers to form ''The Post-Standard''. ...
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Fish Creek (Oneida Lake Tributary)
Fish Creek (called ''Tege-soken'', "''between the mouths''" by the Haudenosaunee) is a moderately sized river emptying into the eastern end of Oneida Lake in Oneida County, New York. Formed by the confluence of its east and west forks near the hamlet of Blossvale, the creek flows southwest for , through the towns of Annsville and Vienna. The last mile of the creek is channelized to form part of the Erie Canal, which joins the lake at Sylvan Beach. The creek drains approximately of the Tug Hill plateau country in Central New York.http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1074&context=tech_rep The largest tributary of Oneida Lake, Fish Creek contributes about 50% of the lake's total inflow. Geography Although the main stem is short, the East Branch stretches , and the West Branch is long. Measured to its furthest headwaters along the East Branch in Lewis County, Fish Creek is long, draining parts of Oneida, Lewis and Oswego Counties. Excepting the east ...
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Verona, New York
Verona (called ''Te-o-na-ta-le'', "''pine forest''" by the Haudenosaunee The Iroquois ( ), also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the Endonym and exonym, endonym Haudenosaunee ( ; ) are an Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian-speaking Confederation#Ind ...) is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in southwestern Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 6,293 at the 2010 census. The town was named after Verona, Italy. Verona is located south of the city of Rome, New York, Rome. History Part of the extensive territory of the ''Haudenosaunee'' or Iroquois League, the municipality was first settled by European Americans in 1792, after the American Revolutionary War. The Town of Verona was established from the Westmoreland, New York, Town of Westmoreland, in 1802. In 1993, the Oneida tribe, Oneida Nation purchased land in the town. On this site it built and opened a casino and Bin ...
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Headwater
The headwater of a river or stream is the geographical point of its beginning, specifically where surface runoff water begins to accumulate into a flowing channel of water. A river or stream into which one or many tributary rivers or streams flows has many headwaters, these being all of the individual headwaters of its tributaries. Each headwater is one of the river or stream's sources, as it is the place where surface runoffs from rainwater, meltwater, or spring water begin accumulating into a more substantial and consistent flow that becomes a first-order tributary of that river or stream. The tributary with the longest channel of all the tributaries to a river or stream, such length measured from that tributary's headwater to its mouth where it discharges into the river or stream, is the main stem of the river or stream in question. Definition The United States Geological Survey (USGS) states that a river's "length may be considered to be the distance from the mouth to th ...
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Tioughnioga Creek
Tioughnioga may refer to: *Tioughnioga River, a tributary of the Chenango River, with two branches that converge at Cortland, New York, and flow south from there *Givetian The Givetian is one of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Period. It lasted from million years ago to million years ago. It was preceded by the Eifelian Stage and followed by the Frasnian Stage. It is named after the town of Givet in ...
, also known as ''Tioughniogan'' or ''Tioughnioga'' stage, the middle stage of the Middle Devonian period {{disambig ...
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Limestone Creek (Chittenango Creek Tributary)
Limestone Creek is a river in Onondaga County in the state of New York (state), New York. From its source on the north side of Arab Hill south of Delphi Falls, New York, and northwest of DeRuyter Reservoir, the creek flows generally north to its confluence with Chittenango Creek. Course Originating at the north side of Arab Hill south of Delphi Falls, New York and northwest of DeRuyter Reservoir the creek begins traveling northward. After a short distance the creek receives the creek that flows through The Gulf, which drains DeRuyter Reservoir. The creek then continues a short distance and receives East Branch Limestone Creek just southeast of Delphi Falls. The upper reaches of the creek drain the valley of Pompey Hollow, west of Cazenovia Lake. The creek then flows past Manlius, New York, Manlius and Fayetteville, New York, Fayetteville, passing under the Erie Canal near Green Lakes State Park, receiving Butternut Creek (Limestone Creek tributary), Butternut Creek from the west ...
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Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigability, navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians. The Erie Canal accelerated the settlement of the Great Lakes region, the westward expansion of the United States, and the economic ascendancy of New York (state), New York state. It has been called "The Nation's First Superhighway". A canal from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes was first proposed in the 1780s, but a formal survey was not conducted until 1808. The New York State Legislature authorized construction in 1817. Political opponents of the canal (referencing its lead supporter New York Governor DeWitt Clinton) denigrated the project as "Clinton's Folly" and "Clinton's Big Ditch". Nonetheless, the canal saw quick success upon opening on October ...
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Walleye
The walleye (''Sander vitreus'', Synonym (taxonomy), synonym ''Stizostedion vitreum''), also called the walleyed pike, yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European zander, also known as the pikeperch. The walleye is sometimes called the yellow walleye to distinguish it from the blue walleye, which is a color morph that was once found in the southern Ontario and Quebec regions, but is now presumed extinct. However, recent genetic analysis of a preserved (frozen) 'blue walleye' sample suggests that the blue and yellow walleye were simply phenotypes within the same species and do not merit separate taxonomic classification. In parts of its range in English-speaking Canada, the walleye is known as a pickerel, though the fish is not related to the true Esox, pickerels, which are members of the family ''Esocidae''. It is also sometimes c ...
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