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2. Aboriginal title in New York - Wikipedia

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   Aboriginal title in New York refers to treaties, purchases, laws and litigation associated with land titles of aboriginal peoples of New York, in particular, to dispossession of those lands by actions of European Americans. The European purchase of lands from indigenous populations dates back to the legendary Dutch purchase of Manhattan in 1626 ...

3. Carson City and Indian Village - Wikipedia

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   Opened. 1958. Closed. 1997. Carson City and Indian Village (or simply Carson City) was a road-side Wild West -themed amusement park located in Catskill, New York, approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) north of the former Catskill Game Farm on New York State Route 32. In its prime, it was one of the most popular tourist attractions in the Catskill area ...

4. Kykuit - Wikipedia

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   June 23, 1980. Kykuit ( / ˈkaɪkət / KY-kət ), [3] [4] known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefeller family patriarch John D. Rockefeller.

5. Adirondack Park - Wikipedia

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   October 15, 1966. Designated NHL. May 23, 1963. The Adirondack Park is a park in northeastern New York protecting the Adirondack Mountains. The park was established in 1892 for "the free use of all the people for their health and pleasure", and for watershed protection. [2] At 6.1 million acres (2.5 × 106 ha), it is the largest park in the ...

6. New York (state) - Wikipedia

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   New York put up more than 5 million acres (20,000 km 2) of former Iroquois territory for sale in the years after the Revolutionary War, leading to rapid development in Upstate New York. [67] As per the Treaty of Paris , the last vestige of British authority in the former Thirteen Colonies —their troops in New York City—departed in 1783 ...

7. Geography of New York (state) - Wikipedia

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   New York covers an area of 54,556 square miles (141,299 km 2) making it the 27th largest state by total area (but 30th by land area). [3] The state borders six U.S. states: Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, and Connecticut, Rhode Island (across Long Island Sound ), Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east.