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  • Population: 100,224
  • Year Organized: 1789
  • Area: 644 Square Miles
  • County Seat: Canandaigua
  • Main Industry: Retail Trade
  • County Supervisors: 21
  • County Nursing Homes: 1
  • Colleges and Universities: 2
  • State Parks: 3
  • School Districts: 9
  • Communities: 33
  • 49 Uniformed Police Officers

  • Named after a corruption of the Iroquois word
    meaning “beautiful lake.”
  • Home of the Ganondagan Historic Site.
  • Home of the Granger Homestead Museum.
  • Home of the Smith Opera House.
  • Home of the Sonnenburg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park.
  • Home of the fossil of the oldest tree in the world.
  • Home of Rose Hill Mansion.
Last modified: February 25, 2008
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