Canoga is a

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in the Town of Fayette, Seneca County,

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, United States, along

Cayuga Lake Cayuga Lake (, or ) is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area (marginally smaller than Seneca Lake) and second largest in volume. It is just under long. Its average width is , and i ...

. It is located southeast of the town of Seneca Falls, at an elevation of . The primary cross roads where the hamlet is located are N.Y. Route 89 and Canoga Road (CR 121). The word Canoga, or "Ga-no-geh" as called by native

Cayuga people The Cayuga ( Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes re ...

, means "place of the sweet water".Canoga Creek Farm & Conservancy
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. Canoga and the immediate area is home to some members of the Cayuga Nation.Cayuga Nation
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. Nearby at Canoga Cemetery is a historical monument marking the birthplace of Seneca Indian Chief Red Jacket, although it is currently unknown as to where he was actually born.Red Jacket Birthplace Monument
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. According to

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history and tradition, Chief Red Jacket was born in 1750 at the former Indian village of Skannayutenate along Canoga Creek which was later burned in 1779 by troops under the command of

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during the

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of the

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.Access Genealogy, Red Jacket Monuments, July 19, 2013
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.
, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. As orator of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, there are six stones at the base of the Chief Red Jacket birthplace monument mentioning each of the tribes belonging to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Cayuga Lake State Park and Seneca Falls Country Club are located north of Canoga on N.Y. Route 89.New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - Cayuga Lake State Park
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.Seneca Falls Country Club
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.

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(official website)
Chief Red Jacket birthplace monumentNew York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - Cayuga Lake State ParkSeneca Falls Country ClubCanoga Creek Farm & Conservancy
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