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SENECA FALLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 638 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SENECA FALLS , a See also:village of Seneca See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in the township of Seneca Falls, on Seneca Outlet, or See also:river (which connects See also:Lake Seneca and Lake Cayuga), about 42 M. W.S.W. of See also:Syracuse. Pop. (1900) 6519, of whom 8o, were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 6733; (1910) 6588; of the See also:town-See also:ship, including the village (1910) 7407. The village is served by the New York Central & See also:Hudson River, the Lehigh Valley and electric suburban See also:railways, and by the Seneca & Cayuga See also:Canal. In the village are the Mynderse (public) Library and the See also:Johnson See also:Home for Old Ladies (1868). Cayuga Lake See also:Park, a See also:pleasure resort, is 3 M. distant and is reached by electric railway. The village is the See also:shipping point for a farming and dairying region. The river here falls 50 ft. and provides a See also:good See also:water See also:power; among the manufactures are pumps and See also:hydraulic machinery, woollen goods, wagons and See also:farm implements. Seneca Falls was settled about 1790, and was first incorporated as a village in 1831, its See also:charter as revised in 1902 being similar in some respects to that of a See also:city.

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