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Several variations of the Curtiss Model H, the world's first "flying boat", made numerous take-offs and landings in Keuka Lake. During this time the Curtis Manufacturing Company was established in Hammondsport. Its great success and national notoriety is said to have "put Hammondsport and Keuka Lake on the map". [25] [26]
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Keuka Lake State Park offers picnic tables with pavilions, a playground, hiking, hunting and fishing, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling, a boat launch, and a campground with tent and trailer sites. Located within the park is the Beddoe–Rose Family Cemetery, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [4]
Hammondsport at Keuka Lake was the site where the first successful flight of a "flying boat" took place in July 1912. The first long distance "flying boat", the America, was also designed by Curtiss and launched in Keuka Lake at Hammondsport in 1914, while the people of Hammondsport and the press gathered to witness the landmark event.
The Crooked Lake Canal ran under 8 miles [2] between Dresden on the west shore of Seneca Lake and Penn Yan at the northeast end of Keuka Lake, through a system of twenty-eight locks. By contrast, the entire Erie Canal (360 miles) had 90 locks at this time. The drop between Keuka Lake and Seneca Lake was a steep 270 feet. The final cost was ...
Penn Yan is an incorporated village and the county seat of Yates County, New York, United States.The population was 5,159 at the 2010 census. [2] It lies at the north end of the east branch of Keuka Lake, one of the Finger Lakes.
Keuka Lake Outlet is a river located in Yates County, New York. It drains Keuka Lake and flows into Seneca Lake by Dresden, New York. [1] The Crooked Lake Canal was developed along the route of the river. The canal was later replaced by a railroad which is now a hiking and cycling trail, the Keuka Outlet Trail.
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