# Anthony Kill

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The **Anthony Kill**, also called **Tenandeho Creek**, is a [stream](/source/Stream) ("[kill](/source/Kill_(body_of_water))") in [Saratoga County, New York](/source/Saratoga_County,_New_York) approximately 8 miles (13 km) long. Its source is the east end of [Round Lake](/source/Round_Lake_(Saratoga_County,_New_York)), and it flows east into the [Hudson River](/source/Hudson_River) in [Mechanicville](/source/Mechanicville,_New_York). It drains an area of approximately 53 square miles (140 km2).[1]

The Native name "Ta-nen-da-ho-wa" has been translated "great point".[2] In English the name was formerly "Anthony's Kill", or the "St. Anthony Kill,"[3] but there seems to be no record of its origin. The will of [Robert Livingston](/source/Robert_Livingston_the_Elder), dated 1728, refers to "a creek commonly called Anthony's kill."[4]

## Recreation

The Kill is popular with [kayakers](/source/Kayak) and [canoeists](/source/Canoe). In the short spring [snowmelt](/source/Snowmelt) season it is "a class II run with several named rapids." The Tenandeho Whitewater Derby is held annually,[5] and normally attracts 50 entrants.[6] Outside of the spring season, "Anthony Kill is a slow moving marshy river that bends and meanders."[7]

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.[8][5]

## 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](/source/Pleistocene) 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](/source/Mohawk_River) 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](/source/Ballston_Lake), is the shrunken remnant of the much larger stream through whose erosive work the present relatively large valley was formed."[9]

## References

1. ["USGS 01335698 ANTHONY KILL AT COONS NY"](https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/nwismap/?site_no=01335698&agency_cd=USGS). *US Geological Survey*. Retrieved Sep 18, 2019.

1. Beauchamp, William Martin (1907). [*Aboriginal Place Names of New York*](https://archive.org/details/aboriginalplace00beaugoog). New York State Museum. p. [280](https://archive.org/details/aboriginalplace00beaugoog/page/n284). Retrieved Sep 18, 2019.

1. Niles, Grace Greylock (1912). [*The Hoosac Valley*](https://books.google.com/books?id=c-F4AAAAMAAJ). New York: The Knickerbocker Press. p. 55. ISBN 9781404751910. Retrieved Jun 29, 2021.

1. De Lancey, Edward F. (ed.) (1894). [*Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1893*](https://books.google.com/books?id=A1EzAQAAMAAJ). New York Historical Society. p. 347. Retrieved Jun 30, 2021.

1. ["Anthony Kill"](https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/detail/id/10954/). *American Whitewater*. Retrieved Sep 17, 2019.

1. Wilkin, Jeff (March 25, 2018). ["Tenandeho Tough: Brave hearts hit white water in canoes, kayaks"](https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/03/25/tenandeho-tough-brave-hearts-hit-white-water-in-canoes-kayaks). The Daily Gazette. Retrieved Sep 18, 2019.

1. ["Round Lake and Anthony Kill in New York"](https://paddling.com/paddle/trips/round-lake-and-anthony-kill-new-york/?lat=42.9299&lng=-73.7863&zoom=14). *paddling.com*. Retrieved Sep 18, 2019.

1. Williams, Stephen (June 7, 2016). ["DEC unveils public boat launch on Round Lake"](https://dailygazette.com/article/2014/06/07/dec-unveils-public-boat-launch-round-lake). The Daily Gazette. Retrieved Sep 18, 2019.

1. Stoller, James H. (November–December 1918). ["Glacial Geology of the Cohoes Quadrangle"](https://books.google.com/books?id=qrgaAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22anthony%20kill%22&pg=RA2-PA3). *New York State Museum Bulletin*. '***(215,216): 5–49.***

## External links

- [Tenandeho Canoe Association](http://tenandeho.org/contact.php)

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