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Genesee

[ jen-uh-see ]

noun

  1. a river flowing N from N Pennsylvania through W New York into Lake Ontario. 144 miles (230 km) long.


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When I was 23, I spent a summer working as a counselor at an overnight camp for eight-to-12-year-olds near the central mountain town of Genesee, Colorado.

British cannonaded and bombarded the town of Charlotte at the mouth of Genesee river.

Treaty of Buffalo creek, when the Senecas sold their land west of Genesee river to the state.

The Genesee, which is much more flashy, has a maximum daily discharge about 400 times the minimum daily flow.

Rochester, being the business centre of the fertile Genesee Valley, shows a steady growth in business and wealth.

He conquered armies, and he conquered nations, but he couldn't jump the Genesee Falls.

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