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The Mohawk Valley still plays an important role in transportation. Railroads followed the Water Level Route, as did major east–west roads such as Route 5 and Interstate 90. The Mohawk River Heritage Corridor Commission was created to preserve and promote the natural and historic assets of the Mohawk River.
The Mohawk Valley. The Mohawk Valley region of the U.S. state of New York is the area surrounding the Mohawk River, sandwiched between the Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains, northwest of the Capital District. As of the 2010 United States Census, the region's counties have a combined population of 622,133 people.
The Mohawk River is the largest tributary of the McKenzie River, [2] approximately 30 miles (48 km) long, in west central Oregon in the United States. It drains part of the foothills of the Cascade Range on the southeast end of the Willamette Valley northeast of Springfield.
The name Caughnawaga is derived from the Mohawk word kahnawà:ke, meaning "place of the rapids", referring to the nearby rapids of the Mohawk River. [3] The site is also known as Indian Castle, or Gandaouage; or Kachnawage in Mohawk, meaning "castle" or "fortified place." This village with its defensive palisade was the Native American form of ...
Mohawk Valley Region was one of three winners of the 2023 REDC Challenge Competition. In 2024 the region will receive $10 million in project funding.
The siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777.Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the Mohawk River Valley, was a primary defense point for the Continental Army against the British and indigenous forces aligned against them during the American Revolutionary War.
The Loft family were members of the Mohawk Nation who had been relocated from its tribal home in what is now Canajoharie in the Mohawk River Valley to a reservation on the Salmon River in Western ...
The Mohawk Valley lies within the path of totality for the upcoming total solar eclipse. According to local astronomers the once-in-a-lifetime event calls for safety first.