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Location: Hamilton County, New York, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Lake: Basin countries: United States: Surface area: 22 acres (0.089 km 2) [1]: Average depth: 10 feet (3.0 m): Max. depth: 36 feet (11 m) [2]: Shore length 1: 1.7 miles (2.7 km): Surface elevation: 1,998 feet (609 m) [1]: Islands: 2: Settlements: Powley Place, New York: 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure ...
Ironville Historic District is a national historic district located at Ironville in Essex County, New York. The district contains 12 contributing buildings. It encompasses the area associated with a once thriving iron works. Almost nothing remains of the iron works itself.
In the nineteenth century the area was mined for iron ore. Adirondac, New York [3] was a company town of the Adirondack Iron Works. Iron deposits were first found here in 1826 by Archibald McIntyre and David Henderson. The iron was extracted at what was known as the Upper Works with moderate success between 1827 and 1857.
It is suburban in nature, with a considerable amount of scenic designated parkland. Rockland County does not border any of the New York City boroughs, but is only 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north of Manhattan at the counties' (New York and Rockland) two respective closest points (Palisades, New York, in Rockland and Inwood Park in Manhattan)
The Benson Mine is an iron-ore mine located near Star Lake, a village in the southern St. Lawrence County, New York. The ore body at Benson Mine was discovered in 1810 by engineers conducting a survey for a new military road from Albany to Ogdensburg. [1] In the 1950s, the mine was considered the largest open pit iron-ore mine in the world.
Lake Placid: The New York Central Adirondack Line ended in Lake Placid. There are extant stations in Ray Brook and Lake Placid; the Adirondack Scenic Railroad used to run a tourist train between Lake Placid and the station in Saranac Lake. 78: Notman Bridge: Notman Bridge: November 12, 1999 : Country Club Rd. over AuSable R.
Henderson Lake is located in the Adirondack Mountains in the town of Newcomb, Essex County, New York in the United States. It was named in 1826 after David Henderson, one of the founders of the Elba Iron Works near Lake Placid , New York, [ 2 ] and of the Upper Works at Tahawus , New York. [ 3 ]
Bellvale is a wooded hamlet in the town of Warwick in Orange County, New York, United States.Situated in the morning shadow of Bellvale Mountain along New York State Route 17A, Bellvale was the site of an iron forge destroyed by British Army soldiers in 1750; many of its homes and other structures date from before American independence. [2]