Point Judith (Otsego Lake)
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Point Judith also known as Kingfisher Point is a geographic cape extending into Otsego Lake in the Town of Otsego north of
Cooperstown, New York Cooperstown is a village in and county seat of Otsego County, New York, United States. Most of the village lies within the town of Otsego, but some of the eastern part is in the town of Middlefield. Located at the foot of Otsego Lake in the C ...
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Kingfisher Tower Kingfisher Tower is a folly, built by Edward Clark in 1876, on the eastern shore of Otsego Lake at Point Judith. It is located north of Cooperstown, New York near County Highway 31. The tower was used in a scene in a movie in 1911. It is a Got ...
is located on the lake off Point Judith. Originally it was called Two Mile Point, but the point's present name is derived from Judith Hutter from
The Deerslayer ''The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path'' (1841) was James Fenimore Cooper's last novel in his ''Leatherstocking Tales''. Its 1740–1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leathers ...
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