006 Glen Falls of Williamsville New York Series
by Michael Frank Jr
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006 Glen Falls of Williamsville New York Series
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Michael Frank Jr
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Waters were running rough this day, but figured, I made the trip out here, let's see what I can gather! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Falls_(New_York)
Glen Falls is a small waterfall located on Ellicott Creek in the village of Williamsville, New York.
The hydropower provided by the falls made it an ideal site for a number of early watermills used to grind grist and to power sawmills.
One of the earliest settlers of what is now Williamsville, Jonas Williams, owned two mills on opposite sides of Ellicott Creek.
The name of these mills, Williams Mills, eventually transformed into the name of the village in which the falls is located, Williamsville.
The falls has a vertical drop of approximately 30 feet.[2] The vertical drop is part of the Onondaga Escarpment, a portion of which runs
through Williamsville. Today, the falls forms part of the eastern border of Glen Park.
Glen Falls has a very similar name to the city of Glens Falls, which is located in the far eastern portion of New York State,
over 200 miles from Williamsville.
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August 10th, 2014
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