{{short description| Stream in Saratoga County, New York}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} thumb|The Head of the Anthony Kill in Malta, New York thumb|The Anthony Kill at Mechanicville, New York The '''Anthony Kill''', also called '''Tenandeho Creek''', is a stream ("kill") in Saratoga County, New York approximately {{convert|8|mi|km}} long. Its source is the east end of Round Lake, and it flows east into the Hudson River in Mechanicville. It drains an area of approximately {{convert|53|sqmi|sqkm}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=USGS 01335698 ANTHONY KILL AT COONS NY |url=https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/nwismap/?site_no=01335698&agency_cd=USGS |website=US Geological Survey |access-date=Sep 18, 2019}}</ref>
The Native name "Ta-nen-da-ho-wa" has been translated "great point".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beauchamp |first1=William Martin |title=Aboriginal Place Names of New York |date=1907 |publisher=New York State Museum |url=https://archive.org/details/aboriginalplace00beaugoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/aboriginalplace00beaugoog/page/n284 280] |access-date=Sep 18, 2019}}</ref> In English the name was formerly "Anthony's Kill", or the "St. Anthony Kill,"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Niles |first1=Grace Greylock |title=The Hoosac Valley |date=1912 |publisher=The Knickerbocker Press |location=New York |page=55 |isbn=9781404751910 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-F4AAAAMAAJ |access-date=Jun 29, 2021}}</ref> but there seems to be no record of its origin. The will of Robert Livingston, dated 1728, refers to "a creek commonly called Anthony's kill."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1EzAQAAMAAJ |title=Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1893 |publisher=New York Historical Society |year=1894 |editor-last=De Lancey |editor-first=Edward F. |page=347 |access-date=Jun 30, 2021}}</ref>
==Recreation== The Kill is popular with kayakers and canoeists. In the short spring snowmelt season it is "a class II run with several named rapids." The Tenandeho Whitewater Derby is held annually,<ref name=AWW>{{cite web |title=Anthony Kill |url=https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/detail/id/10954/ |website=American Whitewater |access-date=Sep 17, 2019}}</ref> and normally attracts 50 entrants.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilkin |first1=Jeff | title = Tenandeho Tough: Brave hearts hit white water in canoes, kayaks|url=https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/03/25/tenandeho-tough-brave-hearts-hit-white-water-in-canoes-kayaks |access-date=Sep 18, 2019 |agency=The Daily Gazette |date=March 25, 2018}}</ref> Outside of the spring season, "Anthony Kill is a slow moving marshy river that bends and meanders."<ref>{{cite web |title=Round Lake and Anthony Kill in New York |url=https://paddling.com/paddle/trips/round-lake-and-anthony-kill-new-york/?lat=42.9299&lng=-73.7863&zoom=14 |website=paddling.com |access-date=Sep 18, 2019}}</ref>
In 2014 The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) opened a boat launch or the west side of Round Lake, replacing an informal launch site, which provides access to the Anthony Kill.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Stephen |title=DEC unveils public boat launch on Round Lake |url=https://dailygazette.com/article/2014/06/07/dec-unveils-public-boat-launch-round-lake |access-date=Sep 18, 2019 |agency=The Daily Gazette |date=June 7, 2016}}</ref><ref name=AWW />
==Geology== The Anthony Kill is notable because its size is "out of proportion to the breadth and depth of the valley." "There is quite conclusive evidence that in late glacial times waters from the flooded Mohawk river coursed through this system of channels, discharging into the waters of the Hudson valley at Mechanicville. At a later time the Mohawk became established in its present course, and the Anthony kill, draining the old channel as far back as the divide at the head of Ballston Lake, is the shrunken remnant of the much larger stream through whose erosive work the present relatively large valley was formed."<ref name="Stoller">{{cite journal |last1=Stoller |first1=James H. |title=Glacial Geology of the Cohoes Quadrangle |journal=New York State Museum Bulletin |date=November–December 1918 |issue=215,216 |pages=5–49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qrgaAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22anthony%20kill%22&pg=RA2-PA3}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://tenandeho.org/contact.php Tenandeho Canoe Association]
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Category:Rivers of New York (state) Category:Rivers of Saratoga County, New York
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