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Article: Cooperstown
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Cooperstown residential and resort village (1990 pop. 2,180), seat of Otsego co., E central N.Y., on the Susquehanna River and Otsego Lake; inc. 1807. It was founded by William Cooper, who brought his family there in 1790. His son, James Fenimore
Cooper
, made his home in Cooperstown after 1836, and the region is described in his
Leatherstocking Tales.
Fenimore House is the headquarters of the New York ...
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Article: Mourners battle to get to graves.
Evening Courier (Halifax, England);
June 22, 2007 ;
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...MOURNERS at a Calderdale cemetery say they are being forced to battle through tall grass to reach graves. When Janet and William Cooper, of Sowerby, visited their family grave at All Saints Church, in Dudwell Lane, Halifax, on Father's Day they were disgusted...
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