Hammondsport, Keuka Lake - New York

The region includes 11 namesake lakes, spread like the fingers on two hands. The lakes are a roughly parallel band from Conesus Lake, south of Rochester in the west, to Otisco Lake, near Syracuse in the east. Formed by retreating glaciers, the lakes are narrow, deep and up to 40 miles long, running north to south.

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Hammondsport is a village in Steuben County, New York, USA.  The village is named after its founding father.

The Village of Hammondsport is in the Town of Urbana and is northeast of Bath, New York.   Hammondsport is at the Southern tip of Keuka Lake.  Keuka Lake is one of New York’s Fingerlakes.

Keuka Lake is an unusual member of the Finger Lakes because it is Y-shaped instead of long and narrow. Because of its shape, it was referred to in the past as Crooked Lake. Keuka (pronounced: cue-kuh) means canoe landing in the Iroquois language.

Keuka Lake empties into another Finger Lake, Seneca Lake, from a stream, called Keuka Lake Outlet, at the lake’s northeastern end in Penn Yan, New York. The stream empties into Seneca Lake at the village of Dresden. At one time the outlet was developed into a canal, the Crooked Lake Canal, connecting the lakes. This canal was later replaced by a railroad branch line which is now a hiking and cycling trail.

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