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schenectady
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Schenectady may stand for: Schenectady, New York Schenectady County, New York Schenectady County Airport Schenectady City Hall
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place in New York state, from Mohawk (Iroquoian) skah-nehtati "the other side of the pines," containing -hneht- "pine tree."
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 61821 Housing Units (2000): 30272 Land area (2000): 10.847665 sq. miles (28.095322 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.139972 sq. miles (0.362526 sq. km) Total area (2000): 10.987637 sq. miles (28.457848 sq. km) FIPS code: 65508 Located within: ...
Usage examples of schenectady.
Thus he passed the old Dutch town of Schenectady, Johnson Hall and Johnson Castle, Forts Hunter and Herkimer, and at length reached the head of river navigation at Fort Stanwix.
Odd clusters and strays of Negroes wandered the back roads and cowpaths from Schenectady to Jackson.
While I was in Schenectady he joined the Dutch Reformed Church, which is a very tough church, indeed.
Bernard worked for the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, for a while, where he discovered that silver iodide could precipitate certain sorts of clouds as snow or rain.