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The Mohawk River is a 149-mile-long (240 km) [1] river in the U.S. state of New York. It is the largest tributary of the Hudson River . The Mohawk flows into the Hudson in Cohoes, New York , a few miles north of the state capital of Albany . [ 10 ]
The river's valley is known as the Mohawk Valley. [3] The Mohawk River was probably given its name by Jacob C. Spores in 1849. [4] Spores was a native of the Mohawk River region of New York, and the Oregon river's valley reminded him of the Mohawk Valley in his home state. [4]
The Mohawk Valley region of the U.S. state of New York is the area surrounding the Mohawk River, sandwiched between the Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains, northwest of the Capital District. As of the 2010 United States Census , the region's counties have a combined population of 622,133 people.
In 1804, the national poet of Ireland, Thomas Moore, visited Cohoes and wrote a paean to the waterfall's beauty: "Lines Written at the Cohos, or Falls of the Mohawk River." In 1831, town leaders built a dam across the Mohawk River to harness the power of the falls to fuel the turbines of the city's burgeoning textile industry. Over the next ...
The Canajoharie Creek (/ ˌ k æ n ə dʒ ə ˈ h ɛər i /) is a river that flows into the Mohawk River in the Village of Canajoharie in the U.S. State of New York. [3] The name "Canajoharie" is a Mohawk language term meaning "the pot that washes itself", referring to the "Canajoharie Boiling Pot", a 20-foot (6.1 m) wide and 10-foot (3.0 m) deep pothole in the Canajoharie Creek, just south of ...
The siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777.Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the Mohawk River Valley, was a primary defense point for the Continental Army against the British and indigenous forces aligned against them during the American Revolutionary War.
This week in Mohawk Valley history, Civil War regiments wait for orders, voter turnout drops and Clinton school extends honors.
Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District is a historic district in Herkimer County, New York that was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993. [2] Located south of the Mohawk River, it includes the Indian Castle Church, built in 1769 by Sir William Johnson, British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, as a missionary church for the Mohawk in the western part of their territory; the Brant ...