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Onanda Park

In 1919 the Rochester YWCA purchased the Shale Glen property on the north side of Point Rochester on Canandaigua Lake. Camp Onanda, named by Mary Moulthrop as an approximation of the Native American word for “pine or fir tree,” was opened in 1920, serving young working women. In its final years before being purchased by […]

Whiskey Point

Whiskey Point is located on the east side of Canandaigua Lake. The spot gets its name from a whiskey still that early Ontario County settlers operated there. It’s said that a scow full of whiskey sank off the point, momentarily turning the lake into a large highball. By the early 20th Century, disreputable gangs of […]

Glimpses of Canandaigua and the Lake

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