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Title: Footprints of the red men. Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ruttenber, Edward Manning, 1825-1907
Subjects: Indians of North America -- New York Names, Indian -- North America Names, Geographical -- New York (State)
Publisher: (Newburgh, N.Y., Newburgh journal print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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MEMORIAL MARKER AT HALFWAY BROOK,QUEENSBURY, N. Y. THE HALF-WAY BROOK IN HISTORY. By James Austin Holden, A. B. In choosing as its first subject for a memorial marker TheHalf-Way Brook, the New York State Historical Associationhas made a dignified and wise selection, for it may be truly saidthat no stream in the Adirondack Wilderness is more noted in his-tory and the Annals of the Border, than this, whose appellation Half-Way comes from the fact that it was nearly equidistantfrom Fort Edward on the south and Fort William Henry on thenorth. Rising in the branch of the Palmertown range known asthe Luzerne Mountains, west of Glens Falls, running a crookedbut generally easterly and northerly course, now expanding intosmall lakes or basins, now receiving the waters of numerous smalltributaries, ponds and rivulets, it divides the town of Queensburyinto two parts, passes the Kingsbury line, turns in a northerly di-rection, and empties into Wood Creek at a point about three-quar-ters of a mil

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