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Chautauqua County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 127,657. [2] Its county seat is Mayville, [3] and its largest city is Jamestown. Its name is believed to be the lone surviving remnant of the Erie language, a tongue lost in the 17th century Beaver Wars; its meaning is unknown ...
Website. Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua. Long Point State Park (on Chautauqua Lake) is a 360-acre (1.5 km 2) state park [2] located in the Town of Ellery, near the hamlet of Maple Springs in Chautauqua County, New York. The park is located on a short peninsula on the east side of the lake and can be reached on Route 430.
1898 - Midway Park is the name chosen for the picnic grounds of the Jamestown & Lake Erie Railway. They leased 17 acres (69,000 m 2) - twelve wooded and five cleared - above Whiteside and nearly opposite Chautauqua Lake from Chautauqua Institution. The park has 500 feet (150 m) of lake front and a sandy beach for bathing.
Chautauqua Lake. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Chautauqua Lake is located entirely within Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The lake is approximately 17 miles (27 km) long and two miles (3.2 km) wide at its greatest width. The surface area is approximately 13,000 acres (53 km 2). The maximum depth is about 78 feet (24 m).
Historical marker on NY 394 east of Westfield commemorating the Old Portage Road. Hand drawn illustration of the French Portage Road, c. 1912. Old Portage Road, also known as Old French Road and as French Portage Trail, was a Native American trail and later a road in present-day Chautauqua County, New York, that connected Lake Erie and Chautauqua Lake, and thereby the Great Lakes and the ...
townofchautauqua.com. Chautauqua (/ ʃəˈtɔːkwə / shə-TAW-kwə) is a town and lake resort community in Chautauqua County, New York. [4] The population was 4,009 at the 2020 census. [2] The town is named after Chautauqua Lake. It is the home of the Chautauqua Institution and the birthplace of the Chautauqua movement.
Lakewood is located at 42°6′3″N79°19′19″W / 42.10083°N 79.32194°W (42.100929, -79.321919), [ 3 ] at the south end of Chautauqua Lake. New York State Route 394 passes through the village as Fairmount Avenue, leading east 5 miles (8 km) to the center of Jamestown and northwest 6 miles (10 km) to Interstate 86 where it crosses ...
The hunting season for smaller ducks — such as wood ducks, blue-winged teals and green-winged teals — opens in late August, since these birds are among the earliest waterfowl migrators.