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Encyclopedia Britannica



COHOES

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 652 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COHOES , a city of Albany county, New
York
 , U.S.A., about 9 M. N. of Albany, at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. Pop. (189o) 22,509; (1900) 23,910, of whom 7303 were foreign-born; (1910) 24,709. It is served by the New
York
  Central & Hudson River and the
Delaware
  & Hudson railways, by electric lines to Troy and Albany, and by the Erie and Champlain canals. It is primarily a manufacturing city. Hosiery and knit goods,
cotton
  cloth,
cotton
  batting, shoddy, underwear and shirts and collars are the principal products, but there are also extensive valve works and manufactories of pulp,
paper
  and
paper
  boxes, beer, pins and needles, tools and machinery, and sash, doors and blinds. The value of the factory products in 1905 was $10,289,822, of which $4,126,873, Or 40'1 %, was the value of hosiery and knit goods, Cohoes ranking fifth among the cities of the United States (of 20,000 inhabitants or more) in this industry, and showing a higher degree of specializa-tion in it than any other city in the United States except Little Falls, N.Y. The Falls of the Mohawk, which furnish power for the majority of the manufacturing establishments, are 75 ft. high and 900 ft. broad, a large dam above the falls storing the water, which is conveyed through canals to the mills. Below the falls the river is crossed by two fine iron bridges. The city has a public library, a normal training school and the St
Bernard
 's (Roman Catholic) Academy. Cohoes was a part of the extensive manorial grant made to Killian Van Rensselaer in 1629 and it was probably settled very soon afterwards. It was incorporated as a
village
  in 1848 and was chartered as a city in 187o.


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