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The Genesee Valley lacked access to broader markets other than via the Genesee River, often too dangerous to navigate. Planners envisioned a lateral canal , cutting through the core of Livingston County, as the means of uniting the Erie Canal with the Allegany River , thereby connecting the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers , allowing freight and ...
In 1994, the Retsof Salt Mine was the largest salt mine in North America, and the second largest in the world. Three hundred people worked within the 6,000 acres (24 km 2; 9.4 sq mi) of excavated space, 1,000 feet (300 m) below ground, extracting salt from a natural deposit for use as road salt, table salt, and in industry. In March 1994, the ...
The Genesee Valley Conservancy (GVC) is a non-profit land trust based in Geneseo, New York, United States, that exists to protect land in the Genesee River watershed. Founded in 1990, GVC works "to protect the habitat, open space, and farmland of the Genesee Valley region."
Genesee Country Village and Museum: Mumford: Monroe: Western New York: 19th-century living history museum covering more than 600 acres, includes an art gallery and nature center that is open only on weekends in January and February Genesee County Park Interpretive Nature Center: East Bethany: Genesee: Western New York: 430 acres, operated by ...
A mineral lick (also known as a salt lick) is a place where animals can go to lick essential mineral nutrients from a deposit of salts and other minerals. Mineral licks can be naturally occurring or artificial (such as blocks of salt that farmers place in pastures for livestock to lick).
A closed rock salt mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem partially collapsed Sunday in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio, the city's civil defense authority said. It quoted ...
Oatka Creek (/ oʊ ˈ æ t k ə / oh-AT-kə) is the third longest tributary of the Genesee River, located entirely in the Western New York region of the U.S. state of New York. From southern Wyoming County, it flows 58 miles (93 km) to the Genesee near Scottsville, draining an area of 215 square miles (560 km 2) that includes all or part of 23 towns and villages in Wyoming, Genesee, Livingston ...
The Sayville National Wildlife Refuge is a 127-acre (51 ha) National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) located in West Sayville, New York about two miles (3.2 km) inland from the Great South Bay.