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GLENS FALLS

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 121 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GLENS FALLS , a
village
  of Warren county, New
York
 , U.S.A., 55 M. N. of Troy, on the Hudson river. Pop. (189o) 9509; (1900) 12,613, of whom 1762 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 15,243. Glens Falls is served by the
Delaware
  & Hudson and the Hudson Valley (electric) railways. The
village
  contains a state armoury, the Crandall free public library, a Y.M.C.A. building, the Park
hospital
 
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, an old ladies' home, and St Mary's (Roman Catholic) and Glens Falls (non-sectarian) academies. There are two private parks, open to the public, and a water-works system is maintained by the village. An iron bridge crosses the river just below the falls, connecting Glens Falls and South Glens Falls (pop. in 191o, 2247). The falls of the Hudson here furnish a fine water-power, which is utilized, in connexion with steam and electricity, in the manufacture of lumber,
paper
  and
wood
  pulp, women's clothing, shirts, collars and cuffs, &c. In 1905 the village's factory products were valued at $4,780,331. About 12 M. above Glens Falls, on the Hudson, a massive stone dam has been erected; here electric power, distributed to a large area, is generated. In the neighbourhood of Glens Falls are valuable quarries of black marble and limestone, and lime, plaster and
Portland
  cement works. Glens Falls was settled about the close of the French and Indian War (1763), and was incorporated as a village in 1839.


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