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Peebles Island State Park

Peebles Island State Park — Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

CategoryParks & Nature

Phone(518) 268-2188

Coordinates42.78291511252, -73.685209111145 ↗

SectionWaterford ↗

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Which Canal Is This? The Four Waterways Behind the Erie Canal
Clinton’s Ditch: How the Erie Canal Was Built
From Freight to Fun: The Canal’s Decline and Recreational Rebirth
Low Bridge, Everybody Down: The Song That Remembers the Mules
Mother of Cities: How the Canal Built Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Utica
The Amateur Engineers Who Built America’s First Great Public Work
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