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Black Rock Forest

... that Black Rock Forest (pictured) gets its name from visible magnetite deposits in it?
... that the town of Kent, New York, dealt with an excess Canada goose population around Lake Carmel by rounding them up while they were molting and distributing the meat to the poor?
... that the Troy, New York post office has been in ten different places since it was first established in 1796?

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