10 Facts About Finger Lakes

Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located south of Lake Ontario in an area called the Finger Lakes region in New York, in the United States.

Cayuga and Seneca Finger Lakes are among the deepest in the United States, measuring 435 feet and 618 feet respectively, with bottoms well below sea level.

Silver Lake, west of Conesus Lake, would seem to qualify because it is in the Great Lakes watershed, but Waneta and Lamoka lakes, sometimes called the "fingernail" lakes, are part of the Susquehanna River watershed, draining into a tributary of the Chemung River.

East of Oneida and Cazenovia Finger Lakes are the headwaters of the Susquehanna River and Hudson River watersheds .

Finger Lakes region is a central part of the Iroquois homeland.

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Major Iroquois towns in the Finger Lakes region included the Seneca town of Gen-nis-he-yo, Kanadaseaga, Goiogouen, Chonodote, Catherine's Town and Ganondagan State Historic Site in Victor, New York.

Roughly the western half of the Finger Lakes region comprised the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1790.

Hornell, just southwest of the Finger Lakes, was a major railroad center; locomotives were repaired there for many years and rail passenger cars are built there today .

Many buildings and historic districts of the Finger Lakes region are notable, in addition to these historic houses.

Nearby the Finger Lakes is Binghamton University, the University of Rochester, Nazareth College, St John Fisher College, Roberts Wesleyan College and Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester; Elmira College in Elmira; Corning Community College in Corning; and the State University of New York at Geneseo.