Place:Massena (town), St. Lawrence, New York, United States

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NameMassena (town)
Alt namesMassena
Messinasource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36016783
TypeTown
Coordinates44.917°N 74.883°W
Located inSt. Lawrence, New York, United States


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Massena is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. Massena is along the county's northern border, just south of the St. Lawrence River and the Three Nations Crossing of the Canada–United States border. The population was 12,433 at the 2020 census. The town of Massena contains a village also named Massena.

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Massena was one of the first towns settled in St. Lawrence county, but was not incorporated until 1802 when it was formed from the town of Lisbon. The town and its village are named after André Masséna, a general and Marshal to Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars.

The town suffered natural disasters in the 1944 Cornwall-Massena earthquake and in the January 1998 North American ice storm. In 1928 it was the scene of the antisemitic Massena blood libel.

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