Oneida Lake
Americannoun
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"Canal people are like a family," he says as the ship sails across 21-mile-long Oneida Lake and swings north into the Oswego River.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were heard of on the Susquehanna, then on the Delaware and its branches, on the Chemung and the Chenango, as far south as Lackawaxen Creek, and as far north as Oneida Lake.
From The Scouts of the Valley by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
As soon as St. Leger's approach up Oneida Lake was known to General Herkimer, he summoned the militia of Tryon County to the succor of the garrison at Fort Schuyler.
From The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley by James Otis
I saw her once at Oneida Lake, dancing on the shore amid a whirl of yellow butterflies at their strawberry feast.
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Dropping everything but their muskets, they fled in terror for their boats on Oneida Lake, with such haste that many of them threw away arms and knapsacks in their mad flight.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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