Coopersville (formerly, Corbeau, Cooperville and Moore's Mills) is a
hamlet
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in
Clinton County Clinton County may refer to:
*Counties named for George Clinton, first and third Governor of New York, and later the fourth Vice President of the United States:
**Clinton County, New York
**Clinton County, Ohio
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,
New York
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, United States. Coopersville lies at an elevation of 105 feet (32 m).
Most of the first settlers of this area were refugees from Canada who either did not support the British during the
American Revolution
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, or actually took up arms against the British. Many of these had been soldiers in the French army from "The Old French War", (The
French and Indian War
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).
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Hamlets in New York (state)
Hamlets in Clinton County, New York
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