Honeoye Lake
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Honeoye Lake ( HUN-ee-oy) is a Finger Lake in Ontario County in western New York state. It is the third largest of the four Finger Lakes in the county, and second smallest in all. Most of the lake is within the town of Richmond but a smaller southwestern part is in the town of Canadice. The hamlet of Honeoye is just north of the lake.
The name Honeoye comes from the Seneca word ha-ne-a-yah, which means lying finger, or where the finger lies. The name comes from the local story of a Native American whose finger was bitten by a rattlesnake and who therefore cut off his finger with a tomahawk.
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