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Canandaigua

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[kan-uhn-day-gwuh] / ˌkæn ənˈdeɪ gwə /

noun

  1. a town in central New York.


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The Seneca Nation also pointed to the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, signed during George Washington’s presidency between the United States and the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

And he was moonlighting in Canandaigua where there was a federal court.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2023

Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua, New York, 45 of the hospital’s 1,750 workers were out with the virus recently, and there are 252 unfilled job openings.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2022

That night, Stewart, still a star in Nascar, arrived at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park in upstate New York for a dirt race in the Empire Super Sprints series.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

She addressed a crowd in Canandaigua, near the courtroom where she would appear the next day.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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