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Nature Attractions In Chautauqua - Allegheny

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Chautauqua Lake is located entirely within Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The lake is approximately 17 miles long and two miles wide at its greatest width. The surface area is approximately 13,000 acres . The maximum depth is about 78 feet . The shoreline is about 41.1 miles of which all but 2.6 mi are privately owned. The lake's name comes from the now-extinct Erie language. Because the Erie people were defeated in the Beaver Wars before a comprehensive study of their language could be made, its meaning remains unknown and a source of speculation, with two longstanding folk translations being “bag tied in the middle” and “place wher...
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Nature Attractions In Chautauqua - Allegheny

  • 1. Evangola State Park Irving New York State
    Evangola State Park is a 733-acre state park in southern Erie County, New York, United States. The park is located west of the Village of Farnham, at the border of the Town of Brant and the Town of Evans. The park, which opened in 1954, fronts on Lake Erie, and has a large swimming beach bordered by cliffs of Angola shale.
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  • 3. Findley Lake Findley Lake
    The hamlet of Findley Lake is part of the town of Mina in southwestern Chautauqua County, New York in the United States, and is situated at an elevation of 1440 ft above sea level. The hamlet is located on the north shore of Findley Lake, and was settled by War of 1812 veteran Alexander Findley, a native of Northern Ireland who had emigrated to America sometime around 1769, settled in eastern Pennsylvania, married and started a family, and returned to Ireland for a few years before making the decision to live permanently in the United States. After purchasing land in Greenfield, Pennsylvania in 1805, he then purchased lot 52, near what is now Findley Lake, from the Holland Land Company in 1811, and built a dam there in 1815 to power his mill, thus creating the lake from two ponds. The sett...
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  • 6. Allegany State Park Salamanca
    The Allegheny River is a principal tributary of the Ohio River; it is located in the Eastern United States. The Allegheny River joins with the Monongahela River to form the Ohio River at the Point of Point State Park in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Allegheny River is, by volume, the main headstream of both the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
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