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The Mohawk Valley covers 5,900 square miles across six thriving counties with more than 500,000 residents. For centuries, this region formed part of the ancestral homeland of the Native American Iroquois. French, Dutch, and British colonists sought the good graces of the Iroquois people who lived here west of the colonial settlements. Over thousands of years, the Mohawk River formed the valley, and its lowest point, known as "the Noses," lies just west of this welcome center. Generations of traders and settlers looked to "the Noses" for easy passage west.
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