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CANANDAIGUA

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 172 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANANDAIGUA , a See also:

village and the See also:county-seat of See also:Ontario county, New See also:York, U.S.A., 30 M. S.E. of See also:Rochester. Pop. (1890) 5868; (1900) 6151; (1910) 7217. It is served by the New York Central and See also:Hudson See also:River, and the See also:North-ern Central (See also:Pennsylvania See also:system) See also:railways, and is connected with Rochester by an inter-See also:urban electric See also:line. Among the manufactures are pressed bricks, See also:tile, See also:beer, ploughs, See also:flour, See also:agate and See also:tin-See also:ware. The village,-picturesquely situated at the north end of Canandaigua See also:Lake, a beautiful See also:sheet of See also:water about 15 M. See also:long with a breadth varying from a mile to a mile and a See also:half, is a summer resort. It has a county See also:court See also:house; the Canandaigua See also:hospital of physicians and surgeons; the See also:Frederick Ferris See also:Thompson memorial hospital, with a bacteriological laboratory supported by the county; the See also:Clark See also:Manor House (a county See also:home for the aged), given by Mrs Frederick Ferris Thompson in memory of her See also:mother and of her See also:father, See also:Myron Holley Clark (18o6–1892), See also:president of the village of Canandaigua in 1850–1851 and See also:governor of New York in 1855–1857; the Ontario See also:Orphan See also:Asylum; Canandaigua See also:Academy; See also:Granger See also:Place school for girls; Brigham See also:Hall (a private See also:sanatorium for See also:nervous and See also:mental diseases); See also:Young Men's See also:Christian Association See also:building (1905); and two See also:libraries, the See also:Wood (public) library and the See also:Union School library, founded in 1795. There is a public playground in the village with See also:free instruction by a See also:physical director; and a See also:swimming school, endowed by Mrs F. F. Thompson, gives free lessons in swimming. The village owns its water-See also:supply system.

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Seneca See also:Indians, near the See also:present Canandaigua, bearing the same name, which means " a See also:settlement was formerly there " (not, as See also:Lewis See also:Morgan thought, " chosen spot "), was destroyed by Gen. See also:John See also:Sullivan in 1779. There are See also:boulder memorials of Sullivan's expedition and of the treaty signed here on the 11th of See also:November 1794 by See also:Timothy See also:Pickering, on behalf of the See also:United States with the Six Nations—a treaty never ratified by the See also:Senate. Canandaigua was settled in 1789 and was first incorporated in 1812.

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