
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km2) forest preserve protected from many forms of development under ...
The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located directly south of Lake Ontario in an area called the Finger Lakes region in New York State . This region straddles the northern and transitional edge of the Northern Allegheny Plateau, known as the Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges ecoregion, and the Ontario Lowlands ecoregion of the Great Lakes Lowlands. Yet ...
Fishers, NY. — Seed Potato Capital of the World Fishers, Victor, Ontario County, Finger Lakes region, Upstate New York. Fishers is a hamlet in the northwest corner of the Town of Victor, Ontario County, New York, United States. It is a small suburb of Rochester. The community is south of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90). The town of Victor was established in 1812. Named after war he...
History Pre-Columbian era Colonization Revolutionary War Industrial Revolution >Geology and physiography Regions The Hudson Valley is divided into three regions: Upper, Middle, and Lower. The following is a list of the counties within the Hudson Valley sorted by region. The Lower Hudson Valley is typically considered part of the Downstate New York region due to its geographical and cultural p...
County Road 3 and County Road 41 Victor, Ontario, New York, USA 42.95970, -77.41270 Main Website A Brief History “ Hezekiah Boughton Sr , son of Eleazer Boughton, Sr. , was born in Norwalk, Ct, November 2, 1725, married at Stanford, Ct October 12, 1749 to Abigail Penoyer , daughter of Samuel and Theophilia Sellect Penoyer . In 1788 Phelps and Company of New England purchased large tracts of l...