The Wynants Kill
is a
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
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accessed October 3, 2011 stream which has its source at Glass Lake near
Averill Park, New York, and terminates at the
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between N ...
at
Troy, New York
Troy is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Rensselaer County. The city is located on the western edge of Rensselaer County and on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. Troy has close ties to the nearby cities of Albany ...
.
The stream is named after Wijnant Gerritsen van der Poel (1617–1699), a Dutch cabinet maker from
Meppel who owned a sawmill on it in the 1650s,
[John Warren]
''The Poesten Kill: Waterfalls to Waterworks in the Capital District''
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kill
Kill often refers to:
*Homicide, one human killing another
*cause death, to kill a living organism, to cause its death
Kill may also refer to:
Media
*'' Kill!'', a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto
* ''Kill'' (Cannibal Corpse album), 2006
* ...
'' is from an archaic Dutch word for "stream".
Tributaries
* Horse Heaven Brook
* Glass Lake
** Crooked Lake
* Crystal Lake
* Burden Lake
See also
*
List of rivers of New York
References
Further reading
*
Rivers of Rensselaer County, New York
Rivers of New York (state)
Tributaries of the Hudson River
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