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Columbia University Wikipedia Columbia University in the City of New York , commonly referred to as Columbia University , is an American private Ivy League research university located in New York City, New York, United States. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges fou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Suffolk County, New York. Official Website Suffolk County was part of the Connecticut Colony before becoming an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created in 1683. From 1664 until 1683 it had been the East Riding of Yorkshire. Its boundaries were essentially the same as at present, with only minor changes in ...
Hamilton College== Wikipedia Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, New York, United States. Founded as a boys' school in 1793, it was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812. It has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with its sister school of Kirkland College. Hamilton is sometimes referred to as the "College on the Hill". One of the "Little Ivies", Hamilton wa...
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People of the Standing Stone Oneida, self-name Onᐱyoteʔa∙ká (“People of the Standing Stone”), Iroquoian-speaking North American Indian tribe living, at the time of European contact, in what is now central New York state, U.S. They are one of the original five nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy. Like the other Iroquois tribes, the Oneida were semisedentary and practiced corn (ma...
New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian American research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is located at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. Founded in 1831, NYU is one of the largest private nonprofit institutions of American higher education.NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1950. NYU counts 36 Nobel Prize winners, four Abel Priz...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Kings County, New York. Although Brooklyn has been a borough of New York City for more than a century, it had a long and illustrious history as an independent city until that time. In 1890, the last census before it was annexed, Brooklyn ranked as the fourth largest city in the United States. The first settlement in what is now Bro...
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The Seneca or Onödowá’ga:’ (pronounced: Oh-n'own-dough-wahgah) or "Great Hill People" are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution. They were the largest ...
Haudenosaunee: Who We Are The Haundenosaunee Confederacy has been in place since time immemorial. The Peacemaker was sent by the Creator to spread the Kariwiio or good mind. With the help of Aiionwatha commonly known as Hiawatha, the Peacemaker taught the laws of peace to the Haudenosaunee. Travelling from community to community they both succeeded in persuading the Chiefs of each nation to joi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Manhattan, New York County, New York. Manhattan, known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. It is the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, and coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Manha...
Salamanca resides in Cattaraugus County, New York. Salamanca is a city which is located on the Allegany Indian Reservation (Allegany Territory), in a valley between the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. Also known as Onë:dagö:h, Salamanca is governed by the Seneca Nation of Indians of New York. Because of its continued habitation by the Seneca Nation, many believe that Salamanca is a native...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cattaraugus County, New York. Official Website The largely unsettled territory was the traditional homeland of the now-extinct Wenrohronon Indians and later occupied by the Seneca people, one of the five Nations of the Haudenosaunee. During the colonial era, it was claimed by at least three territories: New York Colony, Massachusett...
Hillside Haven Cemetery, also known as Hillside Haven Relocation Site Indian Cemetery, is located on the Seneca Allegany Reservation in the town of Cold Spring and hamlet of Steamburg, Cattaraugus, New York. Cemeteries and family plots were relocated to Hillside Haven during the 1964 Kinzua Dam Construction and later flooding of Seneca lands. Hillside also contains new plots as well. Find a G...
People of the Flint The Mohawk people - Kanienʼkehá꞉ka, are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original members of the Iroquois League, the Kanien...
People of the Great Swamp The Cayuga (Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. Today, Cayuga people belong t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oneida County, New York Official Website In 1798, Oneida County was created from a part of Herkimer County. This county was larger than the current Oneida County, as it included the present-day Jefferson (which extends along Lake Ontario), Lewis, and part of Oswego counties. In 1805, Jefferson and Lewis counties were split off from...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ulster County, New York. When part of the New Netherland colony, Dutch traders first called the area of present-day Ulster County "Esopus", a name borrowed for convenience from a locality on the opposite side of the Hudson. The local Lenape indigenous people called themselves Waranawanka, but soon came to be known to the Dutch as th...
The World War II East Coast Memorial is located in Battery Park, New York City. This memorial commemorates those soldiers, sailors, Marines, coast guardsmen, merchant mariners and airmen who met their deaths in the service of their country in the western waters of the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Its axis is oriented on the Statue of Liberty. On each side of the axis are four gray granit...
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Wikipedia =The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City. It is the oldest of City University's twenty-four institutions of higher learning. City College's 35-acre (14 ha) Manhattan campus along Convent Avenue fro...
Wikipedia =DeWitt Clinton High School is an American high school located in the Bronx, New York City, New York. == History ==Clinton opened in 1897 at 60 West 13th Street at the northern end of Greenwich Village under the name of Boys High School, although this Boys High School was not related to the one in Brooklyn. This school was renamed for New York politician DeWitt Clinton in 1900.In 190...
Cornell University= Cornell University ( /kɔrˈnɛl/ kor-NEL) is an American private Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, 1st President of Cornell University , the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoreti...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Onondaga County, New York. Official Website The county was established in 1794. The name Onondaga derives from the name of the Native American tribe who lived in this area at the time of European contact, one of the original Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee. They called themselves (autonym) Onoda'gega, sometimes spelled Onontakeka....
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dutchess County, New York. Official Website Before Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples. They had their council-fire at what is now Fishkill Hook, and also held gatherings along the Danskammer. On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first t...