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Photographer: Steve Stoessel
Taken: March 31, 2019
Caption: Hannacroix Creek
Additional Description: Hannacrois Creek is a 21-mile-long tributary to the Hudson River. From its source in Westerlo, it flows through Dunbar Hollows and over Dickerson Falls to the Alcove Reservoir. It then passes through Coeymans Hollow and just into Greene County to its mouth at the Hudson River in Coeymans, NY.

Variant names of the creek include Hannacroix Creek, Haanadrois Creek, and Hannekraai, among others. The name translates to the Dutch "Rooster crowing". There is a story that the early Dutch settlers here saw a rooster come floating down the creek on a block of ice, so the creek became known as the Hannekraai, meaning "cock-crowing" creek. The settlement of Hannecroix also took its name from the creek.
Submitted: April 4, 2019, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p468910
File Size: 2.909 Megabytes

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