Belfast, New York

Belfast, United States

Belfast, New York shares 28 connections with 7711 other places across 11 topics, including history, government, nature, and industry. It was named in 1825 after Belfast, Ireland, because many residents had Scots-Irish ancestry. The land was long held by the Seneca people of the Haudenosaunee. Its strongest overlaps are with the United States and Canada, followed by Ontario, Pennsylvania, and France. The Genesee Valley Canal, completed around 1853, linked southern markets to the Great Lakes.

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