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The Canajoharie Creek (/ ˌ k æ n ə dʒ ə ˈ h ɛər i /) is a river that flows into the Mohawk River in the Village of Canajoharie in the U.S. State of New York. [3] The name "Canajoharie" is a Mohawk language term meaning "the pot that washes itself", referring to the "Canajoharie Boiling Pot", a 20-foot (6.1 m) wide and 10-foot (3.0 m) deep pothole in the Canajoharie Creek, just south of ...
The Sturgeon Point Light Station is a lighthouse on Lake Huron in Haynes Township, Alcona County, northeastern lower Michigan. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Established to ward mariners off a reef that extends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) lakeward from Sturgeon Point, [ 1 ] it is today regarded as a historic example of a Cape Cod style Great Lakes lighthouse.
Sturgeon Point State Park is an undeveloped public recreation area that is home to the historic Sturgeon Point Light. The state park covers 76 acres (31 ha) on the shore of Lake Huron three miles (4.8 km) north of Harrisville in Alcona County, Michigan. In addition to the lighthouse and associated museum, the park features a long and shallow ...
English: The Sturgeon Bay Bridge is a 1931 Bascule Bridge in the eponymous city that formerly carried Highway 42/57, and now carries their business routes over the bay of Sturgeon Bay. In this photo, this bridge was in open position.
The 2024 season, which will run through Feb. 25, has so far yielded 353 total sturgeon — 249 from Lake Winnebago and 104 from the Upriver Lakes — as of Feb. 19.
Sturgeon Pool is a reservoir near the hamlet of Rifton, in the Town of Esopus in Ulster County, New York.. It was created by damming the Wallkill River just above its confluence with Rondout Creek for hydroelectricity (thus the flow of the Wallkill that reaches the Rondout is greatly attenuated, making the Wallkill a rare instance of a river that drains into a creek).
Otsquago Creek is a river that enters the Mohawk River in Fort Plain, New York. Otsquago is a Mohawk Indian word meaning 'under the bridge,' probably referring to an early bridge of felled trees along the creek, a way of making small bridges. [4] It is also referred to as Otsquage on old maps, which is an Indian word for 'healing waters'.
Dragon Springs, also known as the Mountain, [1] is a 427-acre (1.73 km 2) compound in Deerpark, New York, US that is the headquarters of the global Falun Gong new religious movement and the Shen Yun performance arts troupe. [2] Falun Gong founder and leader Li Hongzhi [a] lives near the compound, as do hundreds of Falun Gong adherents. Members ...