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Encyclopedia Britannica



HOOSICK FALLS

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 677 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOOSICK FALLS , a
village
  of Rensselaer county, New
York
 , U.S.A., in the township of Hoosick, 27 M. N.E. of Troy, on the Hoosick river. Pop. of the
village
  (189o) 7014; (1900) 5671, of whom 1092 were foreign-born; (1905) 5251; (1910) 5532; of the township (1900) 8631; (1910) 8315. Hoosick Falls is served by the Boston & Maine Railroad, and is connected by electric railway with Bennington,
Vermont
 , about 8 m. E. The falls of the Hoosick river furnish water-power for the manufacture of agricultural machinery by the Walter A.
Wood
  Mowing and Reaping Machine Co., which
dates
  from 1866, the business having been started in 1852 by Walter Abbott
Wood
  (1815-1892), who was a Republican representative in Congress in 1879-1883. Other manufactures are knit goods, shirts and collars and
paper
 -making machinery. Hoosick Falls was settled about 1688 by Dutch settlerssettlers from Connecticut and. Massachusetts came after 1763and it was first incorporated in 1827. Three miles N.E. of the village, at Walloomsac, in the township of Hoosick, the battle of Bennington was fought, on the 16th of August 1777.


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