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News Release 10-226
America's Colonial Hydrologic History Recreated
Human activities played important role in the evolution of watersheds
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"The Lake of the Dismal Swamp," by John Gadsby Chapman, 1842.
Credit: Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society
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Map showing the region of study broken down into socio-cultural subregions.
Credit: Graphic by Jonathan M. Duncan
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"View of the West Bank of the Hudson's River 3 Miles above Still Water," by Inigo Barlow, 1789.
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"Red Mill Fall (Opposite Albany)" by William Tolman Carlton, 1847-1849.
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"The American Beaver," by John James Audubon, in: The Quadrupeds of North America, 1854.
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"View of the Oxbow," by Henry Woodward, 1859.
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