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Mohawk
Mohawk river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, rising in central New York and flowing S then SE past Utica and Schenectady to enter the Hudson River at Cohoes. The Mohawk is canalized from Rome to its mouth (completed 1918) as part of the New York State Canal System's rebuilt Erie Canal, which links the Hud... Read more
Cornwall
Cornwall industrial city (1991 pop. 47,137), SE Ont., Canada, on the St. Lawrence River. It manufactures cotton and rayon textiles, paper, chemicals, furniture, and electronic equipment. The Canadian headquarters of the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority are in Cornwall. The Akwesasne (in the United Sta... Read more
Hudson
Hudson river, c.315 mi (510 km) long, rising in Lake Tear of the Clouds, on Mt. Marcy in the Adirondack Mts., NE N.Y., and flowing generally S to Upper New York Bay at New York City; the Mohawk River is its chief tributary. The Hudson is navigable by ocean vessels to Albany and by smaller vessels t... Read more
Schenectady
Schenectady , city (1990 pop. 65,566), seat of Schenectady co., E central N.Y., on the Mohawk River and Erie Canal; founded 1661 by Arent Van Curler, inc. 1798. The General Electric Company was established there in 1892, but its presence waned in the late 20th cent. and the city's population decline... Read more
Cohoes
Cohoes , city (1990 pop. 16,825), Albany co., E N.Y., near Albany, at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers; settled by the Dutch 1665, inc. 1869. A retailing and outlet center, its manufactures include textiles (made there since 1840), knitted goods, cabinetry, and plastic and paper produc... Read more
Manicouagan
Manicouagan , river, 310 mi (499 km) long, rising in E central Que., Canada, and flowing S to the St. Lawrence River near Baie Comeau. The river is an important source of hydroelectricity. ... Read more
Rome
Rome 1 City (1990 pop. 30,326), seat of Floyd co., NW Ga., where the Etowah and Oostanaula rivers meet to form the Coosa, in a farm, timber, and quarry area; inc. 1847. The city was first established as cotton market and an industrial center, with textile and lumber mills, clothing factories, and... Read more
Mahican
Mahican , confederacy of Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). The Mahican were of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. In the early 17th cent. they occupied both banks of the upper Hudson River extending north a... Read more
Arctic Red River
Arctic Red River c.310 mi (500 km) long, rising in the Mackenzie Mts. of W Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Mackenzie River. At its mouth are a post of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the village of Tsiigehtchic, formerly Arctic Red River. ... Read more
Chebar
Chebar , in the Bible, river of Mesopotamia, by which captive Jews were settled. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Mohawk River"

Mohawk
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...bounded by the Mohawk and Hudson river valleys in the south and east and the St. Lawrence River in the north. In 1650 they...Regis on the St. Lawrence River. In the early nineteenth century...Rowell) (1949). "The Mohawk Iroquois." Bulletin of the...Tribalism among the St. Regis ...
Mohawk Indians
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Mohawk Indians, easternmost tribe of the Iroquois confederacy, located mainly along the Mohawk River, was noted for its ferocity and constant...obtaining firearms from Dutch traders, the Mohawk conquered many neighboring tribes, including...
Mohawk Trail
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Mohawk Trail 1 Old road (c.100 mi/160 km...in central New York state following the Mohawk River. It was the sole route through the Appalachians...follows a trail blazed originally by the Mohawks. Traversing the scenic Hoosac Mts. and...
Joseph Brant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...troops on raids in the Mohawk Valley, southern New...Red Jacket, a rival Mohawk chief, to negotiate...Canada to assign the Mohawks a reservation on the Grand River in Upper Canada. His...indemnification for the Mohawks for their losses during...religious documents into Mohawk and ...
Mary (Molly) Brant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...between the British and the Mohawks. She later married Johnson in a Mohawk ceremony. Acculturation...independence. Perhaps the Mohawks stood out as more notable...loss of their land along the Mohawk river in eastern-central New York...
Iroquois Confederacy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...initially comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga...York state from the Hudson River N to the St. Lawrence River...eastern end, guarded by the Mohawk (in the extreme geographical...considerable number of the Mohawk withdrew from the confederacy...Catholic Iroquois, called French ...
Iroquois
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...powers. On occasion Mohawks took the field as allies...There were several Mohawk colonies on the St. Lawrence River established by converts...often log cabins. The Mohawks had converted to the...Continental Congress; Mohawks, Cayugas, and Senecas...included the Tyendinaga Mohawk ...
Brant, Joseph
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...1807), pro‐British Mohawk chief.The son of the Mohawk chief Niklaus Brant and grandson...Indian affairs north of the Ohio River 1755–1774, and proprietor of a vast estate on the Mohawk River near present‐...
Hiawatha
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...pointing out that all the Mohawk warriors would eventually lose...philosophy and thought his Mohawk kinsmen could benefit from...Hiawatha to return with him to his Mohawk village, and the two traveled...to listen to Hiawatha. The Mohawks were impressed with Hiawatha...stream emptying into the ...
Sir William Johnson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...supervise the lands along the Mohawk River belonging to his uncle. There...first wife he took a niece of a Mohawk chief as a housekeeper; she...wife, the sister of another Mohawk chief, he had eight children...Richard E. Day, Johnson of the Mohawks (1930). Still useful are...

Dictionary entries related to "Mohawk River"

Mohawk Valley
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...VALLEY. Situated in east central New York State, the Mohawk Valley runs 148 miles (east-west) and is created by the Mohawk River. The Mohawk Valley has played an influential historical role in...
Mohawk
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Mohawk an Iroquois-speaking Indian tribe...of the Five Nations, located along the Mohawk River in upstate New York. Expelled by the...Valley in the early 17th century, the Mohawks subsequently allied themselves with the...
Treaty with the Six Nations (1784)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Ohio, Mississippi, and Mohawk River valleys played an important...defeated Cayuga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, and...give peace to the Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas and Cayugas, and...taken by the said Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas and Cayugas, or...
Passes, Mountain
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...possible, water trails, so the Mohawk and the Ohio Rivers were the...the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at Pittsburgh and the breaks...through the mountain slopes by rivers seeking an outlet to the Ohio...way of the Holston and Clinch Rivers in eastern Tennessee over and...and then along ...
New York State
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...York City, the St. Lawrence River, which separates the state...northern border, and the Mohawk River, which cuts through the center...coastal plains and shallow river valleys of the eastern regions...either the coastlines or rivers and streams, and ate fish...Senecas, Onondagas, Cayugas, ...
Lake Champlain
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...it feeds into the Richelieu River — hence into the...the sixteenth century, the Mohawk Iroquois hunted in the Adirondacks...The Iroquois, especially the Mohawks, followed what would become...allies in 1609 to defeat a Mohawk army near Crown Point, New...Abenaki" by Gordon M. Day and ...
Waterways, Inland
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...James and Potomac Rivers; Pennsylvanians...via the Susquehanna River and its tributaries...Hudson – Mohawk river valleys into the...uncomfortable. Again the rivers supplied not only...importance of western rivers to the development...down the Mississippi River. Spain, ...
The Origin of the League of Five Nations (c. 1745)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...represented by the Cayugas, the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas...Iroquois . Where the Mohawk river empties into the Hudson in ancient times there was a Mohawk village. The people there...with them. Now among the Mohawks was a chief named Dekanawida...
Erie Canal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Mountains was the one through which the Mohawk River flowed easterly from central New York to the Hudson River, which in turn ran southward into...British colonists farmed along the Mohawk and other natural rivers and lakes in central New York...
New York Colony
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...eastern one hundred miles of the Mohawk River. Ethnic and Religious Heterogeneity...Iroquois Confederation (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca...the western area and much of the Mohawk Valley during the colonial era...

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TAKING THE PLUNGE WITH IMPROVED WATER QUALITY, MORE CAPITAL REGION RESIDENTS ARE SWIMMING THE HUDSON AND MOHAWK RIVERS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/3/2000; 700+ words ; ...Recreational boaters on the Hudson River at Catskill do it, too. And...the Rexford Bridge over the Mohawk do it with panache, plunging into the river from lofty heights. Now...waters of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers. The Pataki administration...can encourage swimming in the river,'' ...
MOHAWK RIVER'S CHALLENGES IN SPOTLIGHT.(Capital Region)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/26/2009; 700+ words ; ...with an interest in the Mohawk River, will gather at Union...a Manhattan Democrat. River residents and businesses...have an impact on the Mohawk, said Garver. It looks...ice jamming in the lower Mohawk River and the impact on the...
MOHAWK RIVER TRAIL PLAN DRAWS PRAISE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/3/2003; 700+ words ; ...bike and pedestrian path along the Mohawk River gained new momentum when it was recently recognized by the Mohawk Valley Heritage Corridor Commission...Route 9 bridge. It would hug the Mohawk River and extend through the Vischer...
Sen. Schumer Introduces Mohawk River Hydroelectric Projects Licensing Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/3/2007; 700+ words ; ...D-New York, has introduced the Mohawk River Hydroelectric Projects Licensing...for hydroelectric projects on the Mohawk River in the State of New York...text of the legislation follows:Mohawk River Hydroelectric Projects Licensing...
Rep. McNulty Introduces Mohawk River Hydroelectric Projects Licensing Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/6/2007; 700+ words ; ...D-New York, has introduced the Mohawk River Hydroelectric Projects Licensing...for hydroelectric projects on the Mohawk River in the State of New York...text of the legislation follows:Mohawk River Hydroelectric Projects Licensing...
GIRL SCOUTS PLAN WALK ALONG MOHAWK RIVER.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/2/1998; 700+ words ; ...Scouts will be trekking along the banks of the Mohawk River from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. It's the...centered education. ``We'll hike along the Mohawk River, walk along the shore, the Mohawk Pathways Riverwalk, to learn and to explore...
Union to Host Conference on Mohawk River Watershed Friday
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 3/24/2009; 548 words ; ...conference on the physical aspects of the Mohawk River watershed on Friday, March 27...conference is not open to the public. The Mohawk River watershed is a unique and distinctive...this key waterway. Flooding on the Mohawk and its tributaries has been a major...
Dredging planned for Mohawk River: DEC targets small area near former fire training center in Cohoes.
Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/25/2007; 611 words ; ...cleanup of the upper Hudson River, state officials are planning a PCB dredging project in the Mohawk River near a former utility...around the facility off North Mohawk Street near Fonda Road. For...1980, crews from the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. at the Cohoes site...
BODY FOUND IN MOHAWK RIVER; PROBE UNDER WAY.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/27/1987; 700+ words ; ...Police retrieved a body from the Mohawk River here late Sunday afternoon and investigations...collapse. Police were summoned to the Mohawk Park Marina at 4:50 p.m. by...accident site in Fort Hunter near the Mohawk River, police said. Glenville officers...
Dredging planned for Mohawk River; DEC targets small area near former fire training center in Cohoes.(Capital Region)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/25/2007; 549 words ; ...cleanup of the upper Hudson River, state officials are planning a PCB dredging project in the Mohawk River near a former utility...around the facility off North Mohawk Street near Fonda Road. For...1980, crews from the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. at the Cohoes site...