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Map of the Finger Lakes region Map of the Finger Lakes region The Finger Lakes are a chain of lakes in the west-central section of Upstate New York that are a popular tourist destination. The lakes mainly are linear in shape, each lake oriented on a north-south axis. The longest, Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake, are among the deepest in America. Both are close to 40 miles (64 km) from end to end, but never more than 3.5 miles (5,600 m) wide. Cayuga is the longest with 38 miles (61 km), but Seneca the largest in total area. Seneca is the deepest (618 feet, 188 m), followed by Cayuga (435 feet, 132 m), with the bottoms well below sea level. These largest lakes resemble the others in shape, which collectively reminded early map-makers of the fingers of a hand. The fourteen lakes located in the Finger Lakes region are: Seneca, Canandaigua, Skaneateles, Owasco, Otisco, Cayuga, Conesus, Honeoye, Hemlock, Canadice, Keuka, Oneida, Cazenovia, and Onondaga. The following counties of New York State make up the Finger Lakes region: Seneca, Cayuga, Cortland, Livingston, Monroe, Onondaga, Ontario, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Wayne, and Yates. Finger Lakes cities and larger villages are situated at the head and foot of most major lakes: Skaneateles, Auburn, Ithaca, Geneva, Watkins Glen, Penn Yan, Hammondsport and Canandaigua. These historic communities with scenic situations all are tourist destinations, as is the village of Aurora, which is situated on the east shore of Cayuga Lake, and Naples, located about five miles south of Canandaigua Lake. More about the Finger Lakes... Chenango CR 10A (former NY 319) New York State Route 319 (formerly and currently designated by the New York State Department of Transportation as NY 319) was a short state highway from the town of Preston to the nearby city of Norwich. The route was 5.47 miles (8.80 km) long and began at an intersection with three Chenango county roads. Route 319 headed eastward into the city of Norwich and terminated at an intersection with New York State Route 12 in the downtown regions. Route 319 however, has had an influence on the history of turnpikes in the state of New York and the history of the towns it was located in, Norwich and Preston. The route was commissioned by 1931, a year after a mass renumbering of state highways in New York. The route lasted for fifty-three more years, being decommissioned in July of 1984 for a trade between the state and Chenango County. When a nearby highway was constructed, the state turned over Route 319 to Chenango County and was replaced by County Route 10A. Green Lakes State Park is a New York State Park that is visited nearly a million times each year; it is located just east of the city of Syracuse in upstate New York. The park is strikingly scenic, and has several other distinctions. It has a "masterpiece" golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones very early in his career. Green Lake itself is perhaps the most studied "meromictic" lake in the world. Round Lake has been designated as a National Natural Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Finally, the park preserves the largest stand of old growth forest in Central New York. Green Lakes State Park was named as one of the Top 100 Campgrounds in the nation in 2004. The park is centered on two small lakes, Green Lake and Round Lake, which have an unusual blue-green color. The lakes lie at the base of a gorge that is somewhat longer than a mile in length. The lakes and the gorge are remnants of the ice ages, and (as described below) exemplify some of the unusual geology of upstate New York. Buttermilk Falls A view of Buttermilk Falls, a large waterfall outside of Ithaca More anniversaries... Oneida Lake is the largest lake entirely within New York (79.8 square miles). The lake is located northeast of Syracuse and near the Great Lakes. It serves as one of the links in the Erie Canal. It empties into the Oneida River which flows into the Oswego River which in turn flows into Lake Ontario. It is named for the Oneida tribe of the Iroquois who live in the area. While not included as one of the Finger Lakes, it is sometimes referred to as their "thumb". The current lake is about 21 miles (33 km) long and about 5 miles (8.7 km) wide with an average depth of 22 feet (6.4 m). The shoreline is about 55 miles (89 km). Portions of six counties and sixty-nine communities are in the watershed. Oneida Creek, which flows past the cities of Oneida and Sherrill, empties into the southeast part of the lake at South Bay. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist together with her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton addressed a number of issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family, temperance, and birth control. Market Street Bridge ...that the new Carl E. Stotz Memorial Little League Bridge (pictured) over the West Branch Susquehanna River between Williamsport and South Williamsport in Pennsylvania is the seventh on that site, and that three of the previous bridges were destroyed by floods? ... that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science? Place the {{WikiProject Lakes}} project banner on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of WikiProject Lakes. 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