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PLACE NAME DUDE
One thousand Adirondack toponyms + historical tidbits
PLACE NAME DUDE
One thousand Adirondack toponyms + historical tidbits
AOE
Adirondack Onomastic Experience (AOE) is the interactive map and backbone of Place Name Dude. With AOE you can search a database of 1,000 toponyms from Windfall Pond to West Mountain, Shattuck Clearing to Sugar Hill, Mill Pond to Mount Marcy and just about everything in between. AOE is a perpetual project in which other historical layers will be added.
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Red checks = High Peaks toponyms
Blue checks = PND's ten proposed toponyms
Orange checks = PND's fifty favorite toponyms
Green checks = All other toponyms
Brown flags = Town place names
Black skull and crossbones = Deaths
Tan bears = Big bears
Tan deer = Big deer
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