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Fultonville, New York
Fultonville is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The village is named after Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 742. Fultonville is on the south bank of the Mohawk River in the town of Glen. It is west of the city of Amsterdam. In 2019, the area of the village that had been developed in the 19th and early 20th centuries was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Fultonville Historic District, in recognition of its well-preserved architecture from its original settlement, the era centering around the development of the Erie Canal and afterwards. History The present village is located near the site of the Mohawk village of Andagaron, which was active during the middle of the seventeenth century and located about a mile to the west. The first white settlement on the site was made around 1750 by John Evart Van Epps and was called "Van Epps Swamp" due to the swampland by the ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village (United States)
In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction. In formal usage, a "village" is a type of administrative division at the local government in the United States, local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from legislating on local government, the U.S. state, states are free to have political subdivisions called "villages" or not to and to define the word in many ways. Typically, a village is a type of municipality, although it can also be a special-purpose district, special district or an unincorporated area. It may or may not be recognized for governmental purposes. In informal usage, a U.S. village may be simply a relatively small clustered human settlement without formal legal existence. In colonial New England, a village typically formed around the church building, meetinghouses that were located in the center of each New England town, town.Joseph S. Wood ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohawk River
The Mohawk River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed October 3, 2011 river in the U.S. state of New York (state), 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, New York, Albany.Mohawk River , The Columbia Gazetteer of North America The river is named for the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois, Iroquois Confederacy. A major waterway, in the early 19th century, the river's east-west valley provided the setting and water for development of the Erie Canal, as a key to developing New York. The largest tributary, the Schoharie Creek, accounts for over one quarter (26.83%) of the Mohawk River's Drainage basin, watershed. Another main tributary is the West Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeptha Root Simms
Jeptha Root Simms (December 31, 1807 – May 31, 1883) was an American historian best known for chronicling the settlement of upstate New York (state), New York. Personal life Jeptha Root Simms was born at Canterbury, Connecticut, on December 31, 1807, son of Joseph Simms and the former Phoebe Fitch. His family moved to Plainfield, New York, in 1824. He married April 1, 1833, to Catherine Lawyer of Schoharie, New York. He died May 31, 1883, in Fort Plain, New York, age 75. Education Mr. Simms was largely self-educated. He became an acknowledged authority on the history and geology of upstate New York through years of personal interviews with the region’s oldest surviving residents and collecting fossils and mineral samples. The interviews became the backbone of his subsequent writings, while his geological collection was eventually purchased by the State of New York for $5,000 (an impressive sum at the time). Career As a young man, Simms worked at Canajoharie, New York, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelius Gardinier
Cornelius Gardinier (June 24, 1809 in Fultonville, Montgomery County, New York – October 21, 1892 in Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut) was an American politician from New York. Life Born to Rynier Gardinier and Mary Newkirk, he married Catherine and had at least ten children. He was Postmaster of Fultonville from 1841 to 1843. In 1853, he ran for Canal Commissioner on the Whig ticket against John C. Mather. He won the election and remained in office from 1854 until 1856. He died on October 21, 1892, in Darien, Connecticut, at the home of his son-in-law J. H. Taylor. Sources''Official State Canvass''in NYT on January 3, 1854''Whig State Officers''in the ''Havana Journal'', of Havana Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howland Fish
Howland Fish (December 1786 – June 21, 1862) was an American legislator and lawyer. He was born in Dutchess County, New York. He graduated from Yale College in 1809. He studied law with the late Philip Parker of Hudson, New York, and pursued the profession with success in Johnstown, Glen, and Fultonville. He represented Montgomery County, New York, three times in the New York State Legislature, was an active member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and in later years held the office of District Attorney. He died at Fultonville, New York Fultonville is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The village is named after Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 742. Fultonville is on the south bank of the Mo ..., aged 75. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fish, Howland 1786 births 1862 deaths Politicians from Dutchess County, New York Yale College alumni New York (stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammonsville, New York
Sammonsville is a hamlet in the Town of Johnstown in Fulton County, New York, United States. It is located by the southern town line on New York State Route 334 New York State Route 334 (NY 334) is a north–south state highway in the Mohawk Valley region of New York in the United States. It extends for from an intersection with NY 5 in the village of Fonda to a junction with NY 6 ... (NY 334). References {{FultonCountyNY-geo-stub Geography of Fulton County, New York Hamlets in Fulton County, New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Central
The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse. The New York Central was headquartered in the New York Central Building, adjacent to its largest station, Grand Central Terminal. The railroad was established in 1853, consolidating several existing railroad companies. In 1968, the NYC merged with its former rival, the Pennsylvania Railroad, to form Penn Central. Penn Central went into bankruptcy in 1970 and, with extensive Federal government support, emerged as Conrail in 1976. In 1999, Conrail was broken up, and portions of its system were transferred to CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), with CSX acquiring most of the NYC's eastern trackage and NS acquiring most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Shore Railroad
The West Shore Railroad was a U.S. railway company active in the states of New York and New Jersey between 1885 and 1952. It was incorporated in 1885 to reorganize the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway, which had originally been intended as a competitor to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. The oldest original component of the line traced to 1866, with other lines and trackage rights acquired into the 1880s. Its main line ran from Weehawken, New Jersey, on the west bank of the Hudson River opposite New York City, north to Albany, New York, and then west to Buffalo. An effort by the powerful Pennsylvania Railroad to acquire the New York West Shore and Buffalo Railway and challenge the New York Central on its home state resulted in a turf war, settled by financier J. P. Morgan, with the NYC taking the line over in return for dropping its South Pennsylvania Railroad incursion into the heart of the Pennsylvania's territory. Within a week of being acquir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Revolution
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a colonial rebellion and war of independence in which the Thirteen Colonies broke from British America, British rule to form the United States of America. The revolution culminated in the American Revolutionary War, which was launched on April 19, 1775, in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Leaders of the American Revolution were Founding Fathers of the United States, colonial separatist leaders who, as British subjects, initially Olive Branch Petition, sought incremental levels of autonomy but came to embrace the cause of full independence and the necessity of prevailing in the Revolutionary War to obtain it. The Second Continental Congress, which represented the colonies and convened in present-day Independence Hall in Philadelphia, formed the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as its commander-in-chief in June 1775, and unanimously adopted the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohawk People
The Mohawk, also known by their own name, (), are an Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous people of North America and the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Five Nations or later the Six Nations). Mohawk are an Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian-speaking people with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York (state), New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original members of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Mohawk are known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door who are the guardians of the confederation against invasions from the east. Today, Mohawk people belong to the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation, Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, Mohawks of Kanesatake, Six Nations of the Grand River, and Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, a federally recognized tribe in the United States. At the time of European contact, Mohawk people were based in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigability, navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians. The Erie Canal accelerated the settlement of the Great Lakes region, the westward expansion of the United States, and the economic ascendancy of New York (state), New York state. It has been called "The Nation's First Superhighway". A canal from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes was first proposed in the 1780s, but a formal survey was not conducted until 1808. The New York State Legislature authorized construction in 1817. Political opponents of the canal (referencing its lead supporter New York Governor DeWitt Clinton) denigrated the project as "Clinton's Folly" and "Clinton's Big Ditch". Nonetheless, the canal saw quick success upon opening on October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
