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End Of The LOSP
Back in the 1930s, Robert Moses proposed and started constructing a parkway that would run along the lake shore of Lake Ontario, connecting Niagara Falls, Rochester, Oswego, and ultimately Watertown, Massena, and Malone, roughly parallel to the local routes now known as NY 104 and NY 3. Only about 35 miles of the parkway were ultimately built west of Rochester, leaving a 30 mile gap between the Robert Moses Parkway in Fort Niagara to Lakeside Beach Park in Carlton, Orleans County.
Limekiln Falls Area
Near the lands of Panther Mountain Club, and Panther Mountain, the Middle Branch of the Moose River dips north around Green Lake before decending Limekiln Falls. While no public access exists for these lands, the river is sometimes kayaked by by white-water kayakers.
Lackawanna Steel Mill 1963
In 1963, a year after John F. Kennedy publicly derided USW Leader Roger Blought over follow the leader pricing for steel, the Lackawanna Steel Mill was still the largest in the world. But the mill no longer had the latest technologies, it hasn't been updated since World War II. The mill would limp along into the 1970s, slowly winding down with rounds of layoffs before permanently shuttering in 1982.
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Mexico Point State Park
Mexico Point State Park is a boat launch and preserved marshlands along Lake Erie.
Exit 5A to Nowhere
Before Corporate Woods was built, as seen in this 1973 Aerial Photo, Exit 5A of Interstate 90 was an "Exit to Nowhere".