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Silver Creek, New York, the Glossary

Silver Creek is a village in the town of Hanover in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.^[1]

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1803 establishments in New York (state)

Administrative divisions of New York (state)

The administrative divisions of New York are the various units of government that provide local services in the American state of New York.

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Albert G. Dow

Albert Gallatin Dow (August 16, 1808 Plainfield, then in Cheshire Co., now in Sullivan County, New Hampshire – May 23, 1908) was an American merchant, banker and politician from New York.

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Alice Lee Jemison

Alice Mae Lee Jemison (October 9, 1901 – March 6, 1964) was a Seneca political activist and journalist.

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Area codes 716 and 624

Area codes 716 and 624 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and four surrounding counties in western New York.

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Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Chautauqua County, New York

Chautauqua County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Cindy Miller

Cynthia Susan (Kessler) Miller (born February 11, 1956) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour from 1979 to 1981.

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Clinton T. Horton

Clinton Thompson Horton (1876 – 1953) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

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Concord grape

The Concord grape is a cultivar derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca (also known as fox grape) that are used as table grapes, wine grapes and juice grapes.

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Conrail

Conrail, formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999.

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation, known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Doc Alexander

Joseph A. "Doc" Alexander (April 1, 1897 – September 12, 1975) was an American football player, who played center, tackle, guard, and end, and coach in the National Football League (NFL).

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Elisha Ward

Elisha Ward (June 20, 1804 Poultney, Rutland County, Vermont – January 25, 1860 Silver Creek, Chautauqua County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

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Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Ezra Convis

Ezra Convis (–1838) was the first speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and the founder of Verona, Michigan.

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Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for all Federal prisons and provide for the care, custody, and control of federal prisoners.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Field trip

A field trip or excursion is a journey by a group of associated peers, such as coworkers or school students, to a place away from their normal environment for the purpose of education or leisure, either within their country or abroad.

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Fredonia, New York

Fredonia is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. Silver Creek, New York and Fredonia, New York are villages in New York (state).

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Funeral home

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the dead and their families.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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George Carter (basketball)

George Carter (January 10, 1944 – November 18, 2020) was an American professional basketball player.

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George Mohart

George Benjamin Mohart (March 6, 1892 – October 2, 1970) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.

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Good Morning America

Good Morning America (often abbreviated as GMA) is an American morning television program that is broadcast on ABC.

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Gowanda, New York

Gowanda is a village in western New York, United States. Silver Creek, New York and Gowanda, New York are villages in New York (state).

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Grape treading

Grape-treading or grape-stomping is part of the method of maceration used in traditional wine-making.

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Hanover, New York

Hanover is a town in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

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High school (North America)

High schools in North America are schools for secondary education, which may also involve intermediate education.

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Highmark Stadium (New York)

Highmark Stadium is a stadium in Orchard Park, New York, United States, in the Southtowns of the Buffalo metropolitan area.

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Howard Ehmke

Howard John Ehmke (April 24, 1894 – March 17, 1959) was an American baseball pitcher.

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Interstate 90 in New York

Interstate 90 (I-90) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts.

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Interstate Commerce Commission

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

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James V. Bennett

James Van Benschoten Bennett (August 29, 1894, in Silver Creek, New York, United States – November 19, 1978) was a leading American penal reformer and prison administrator who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from 1937 to 1964.

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Juglans nigra

Juglans nigra, the eastern American black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to North America.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie (Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally.

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Lake Erie Basin

Lake Erie Basin consists of Lake Erie and surrounding watersheds, which are typically named after the river, creek, or stream that provides drainage into the lake.

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Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, established in 1833, and sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the south shore of Lake Erie (in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio) and across northern Indiana.

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List of counties in New York

There are 62 counties in the U.S. state of New York.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of towns in New York

This is a list of towns in New York.

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Middle school

A middle school, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school, is an educational stage between primary school and secondary school.

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Midway (fair)

A game of popping balloons with darts for prizes—a common part of a carnival or fair midway A midway at a fair (commonly an American fair such as a county or state fair) is the location where carnival games, amusement rides, entertainment, dime stores, themed events, exhibitions and trade shows, pleasure gardens, water parks and food booths cluster.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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New York Public Service Commission

The New York Public Service Commission is the public utilities commission of the New York state government that regulates and oversees the electric, gas, water, and telecommunication industries in New York as part of the Department of Public Service.

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New York State Department of Health

The New York State Department of Health is the department of the New York state government responsible for public health.

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New York State Police

The New York State Police (NYSP) is the state police of the U.S. state of New York; it is part of the New York State Executive Department and employs over 5,000 sworn state troopers and 711 non-sworn members.

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New York State Route 5

New York State Route 5 (NY 5) is a state highway that extends for across the state of New York in the United States.

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New York State Thruway

The New York State Thruway (officially the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway and colloquially "the Thruway") is a system of controlled-access toll roads spanning within the U.S. state of New York.

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Nickel Plate Road

The New York, Chicago and St.

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Norfolk and Western Railway

The Norfolk and Western Railway, commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States.

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Old gold

Old gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow, generally on the darker side of this range.

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Orchard Park, New York

Orchard Park is an incorporated town in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Parade

A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats, or sometimes large balloons.

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Penn Central Transportation Company

The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American class I railroad that operated from 1968 to 1976.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Pre-kindergarten

Pre-kindergarten (also called Pre-K or PK) is a voluntary classroom-based preschool program for children below the age of five in the United States, Canada, Turkey and Greece (when kindergarten starts).

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Primary school

A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Robert F. Young

Robert Franklin Young (June 8, 1915 – June 22, 1986) was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York.

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Samuel S. Brannan

Samuel Stephen Brannan (February 5, 1835April 5, 1880) was an American newspaper editor, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.

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Skew arch

A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right angle.

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St. Bonaventure University

St.

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Sunset Bay, New York

Sunset Bay is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Hanover in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

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U.S. Route 20 in New York

U.S. Route 20 (US 20) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Newport, Oregon, to Boston, Massachusetts.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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UPMC Hamot

UPMC Hamot, formerly known as Hamot Medical Center, is a 446-bed hospital and a tertiary-care medical facility located in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Varsity team

Varsity teams are sports teams that compete in university sports events.

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Village (United States)

In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction.

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Vocational education

Vocational education is education that prepares people for a skilled craft as an artisan, trade as a tradesperson, or work as a technician.

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A weather cancellation or delay is closure, cancellation, or delay of an institution, operation, or event as a result of inclement weather.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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2020 United States census

The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Creek,_New_York

Also known as Silver Creek, Chautauqua County, New York, Silver Creek, NY.

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1803 establishments in New York (state)

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