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Glen, New York
Glen is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 2,536 at the 2020 census. The town was named after Jacob Glen, an early landowner. History Glen was inside the original town of Mohawk, which was subdivided out of existence. Glen was first settled by European colonists in the 18th century, ''circa'' 1725. The town was formed in 1823 from the town of Charleston. In 1848, a larger concentrated settlement in the town along the Mohawk River incorporated as the village of Fultonville. Geography Glen is in east-central Montgomery County, bordered to the north by the Mohawk River/Erie Canal and to the east by Schoharie Creek. The New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) crosses the northern part of Glen to the south of the Mohawk River. The Thruway leads east to Albany, the state capital, and west to Utica. New York State Route 5S parallels the Thruway in Glen, leading east to Amsterdam and west to Canajoharie. New York State Route 30A cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrative Divisions Of New York
The administrative divisions of New York are the various units of government that provide local government, local services in the American New York (state), state of New York. The state is divided into boroughs of New York City, boroughs, counties, cities, towns, and villages. (The only boroughs, the five boroughs of New York City, have the same boundaries as their respective counties.) They are municipal corporations, chartered (created) by the New York State Legislature, as under the Constitution of New York, New York State Constitution the only body that can create governmental units is the state. All of them have their own governments, sometimes with no paid employees, that provide local services. Centers of population that are not incorporated and have no government or local services are designated Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Hamlet, hamlets. Whether a municipality is defined as a borough, city, town, or village is determined not by population or land are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohawk, Montgomery County, New York
Mohawk is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 3,572 at the 2020 census, down from 3,844 in 2010. The town is on the northern border of the county, west of Amsterdam. The county seat, Fonda, is in Mohawk. History Jesuit missionaries entered the region from Quebec around 1642 to work among the Mohawk people. The principal village of the Mohawk was Caughnawaga, which was later developed as the site of Fonda. The area that became Mohawk was settled around 1725 by colonists from the English/Dutch region to the east around Albany. The Mohawk District, which became the original town of Mohawk, was created in March 1772 by Sir William Johnson when Tryon County was split off from Albany County. It was the easternmost of five districts in the new county, which eastern boundary ran north from the Delaware River at the Pennsylvania line through present Schoharie County to a north–south line that now forms the eastern boundaries of Montgomery, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloansville, New York
Sloansville is a hamlet in Schoharie County, New York, United States. The community is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 20, New York State Route 30A, and New York State Route 162, west of Esperance. Sloansville has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ... with ZIP code 12160, which opened on March 13, 1818. References Hamlets in Schoharie County, New York Hamlets in New York (state) {{SchoharieCountyNY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fonda, New York
Fonda is a village in and the county seat of Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 668 at the 2020 census, down from 795 in 2010. The village is named after Douw Fonda, a Dutch-American settler who was killed and scalped in 1780, during a Mohawk raid in the Revolutionary War, when the tribe was allied with the British. The village of Fonda is in the town of Mohawk and is west of Amsterdam. In 1993, the Mohawk people bought land near the village to re-establish the ''Kanatsiohareke'' community formerly at this site. The Fonda Fair is an annual agricultural event that takes place in August. History The village of Fonda developed near the site of the former Mohawk village of Caughnawaga, also known as ''Kanatsiohareke''. Here the Mohawk had cultivated corn in the floodplain on the north side of the Mohawk River. In the late 17th century, Kateri Tekakwitha resettled here. She was a Mohawk girl who had converted to Catholicism and become renowned f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York State Route 30A
New York State Route 30A (NY 30A) is a state highway in the Capital District of New York in the United States. It serves as a westerly alternate route of NY 30 from near the Schoharie County village of Schoharie to the Fulton County hamlet of Riceville, south of the village of Mayfield. While NY 30 heads generally north–south between the two locations and passes through Amsterdam, NY 30A veers west to serve the villages of Fonda and Fultonville and the cities of Johnstown and Gloversville. Along the way, it connects to several major east–west highways, including U.S. Route 20 (US 20) in Esperance and the New York State Thruway in Fultonville. All of NY 30A north of NY 7 in Central Bridge was originally designated as New York State Route 148 as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, replacing NY 54 from Fonda to Mayfield. The piece of modern NY 30A south of NY 7 has been part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canajoharie (village), New York
Canajoharie () is a village in the town of Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 2,037, out of 3,660 in the entire town. The name is said to be a Mohawk language term meaning "the pot that washes itself", referring to the "Canajoharie Boiling Pot", a circular gorge in Canajoharie Creek, in the southern part of the village. The village of Canajoharie is at the north border of the town of Canajoharie; it is west of Amsterdam and east of Utica. The village and town name also refer to '' Canajoharie'', a historic Mohawk town that was located west of here, referred to by the English colonists as the "Upper Castle". The Erie Canal passes the north side of the village. History The current village is located east of the historic ''Canajoharie'', one of two major towns of the Mohawk nation in the late 17th and 18th centuries. The Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District in the former area contains the Upp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York State Route 5S
New York State Route 5S (NY 5S) is a east–west state highway located in the Mohawk Valley of New York (state), New York in the United States. It extends from a continuation of New York State Route 5A, NY 5A at an interchange with Interstate 790, I-790, New York State Route 5, NY 5, New York State Route 8, NY 8, and New York State Route 12, NY 12 in Utica, New York, Utica to an interchange with Interstate 890, I-890 and New York State Route 890, NY 890 in Rotterdam (town), New York, Rotterdam. The route runs along the south side of the Mohawk River for its entire length and parallels NY 5, which runs along the north side of the Mohawk River (hence the "S" in the route number of NY 5S). NY 5S intersects several primary routes including New York State Route 28, NY 28 in Mohawk, New York State Route 30A, NY 30A in Fultonville, New York State Route 30, NY 30 south of Amsterdam, as well as intersecting the New York Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utica, New York
Utica () is the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The tenth-most populous city in New York, its population was 65,283 in the 2020 census. It is located on the Mohawk River in the Mohawk Valley at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, approximately west-northwest of Albany, east of Syracuse and northwest of New York City. Utica and the nearby city of Rome anchor the Utica–Rome metropolitan area comprising all of Oneida and Herkimer counties. Formerly a river settlement inhabited by the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, Utica attracted European-American settlers from New England during and after the American Revolution. In the 19th century, immigrants strengthened its position as a layover city between Albany and Syracuse on the Erie and Chenango Canals and the New York Central Railroad. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city's infrastructure contributed to its success as a manufacturing center and defined its role as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albany, New York
Albany ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. Albany is the oldest city in New York, and the county seat of and most populous city in Albany County, New York, Albany County. Albany's population was 99,224 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and estimated at 101,228 in 2023. The city is the economic and cultural core of New York State's Capital District (New York), Capital District, a metropolitan area including the nearby cities and suburbs of Colonie, New York, Colonie, Troy, New York, Troy, Schenectady, New York, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs, New York, Saratoga Springs. With a population of 1.23 million in 2020, the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state. The Hudson River area was originally inhabited by Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 90 In New York
Interstate 90 (I-90) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts. In the US state of New York (state), New York, I-90 extends from the New York–Pennsylvania border, Pennsylvania state line at Ripley, New York, Ripley to the Massachusetts state line at Canaan, New York, Canaan, and is the second-longest highway in the state after New York State Route 17 (NY 17). Although most of the route is part of the tolled New York State Thruway, two non-tolled sections exist along I-90 (the first, situated outside of Buffalo, is included in the Thruway system; the second, situated in the Capital District (New York), Capital District, is not part of the Thruway system and links Albany, New York, Albany and its eastern suburbs). Within New York, I-90 has a complete set of auxiliary Interstates, which means that there are Interstates numbered Interstate 190 (New York), I-190 through Interstate 990, I-990 in the state, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York State Thruway
The New York State Thruway (officially the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway and colloquially "the Thruway") is a system of controlled-access toll roads spanning within the U.S. state of New York. It is operated by the New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA), a New York State public-benefit corporation. The mainline is a freeway that extends from the New York City line at Yonkers to the Pennsylvania state line at Ripley by way of I-87 and I-90 through Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo. According to the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, the Thruway is the fifth-busiest toll road in the United States. The toll road is also a major route for long distance travelers linking the cities of Toronto, Buffalo, and Montreal with Boston and New York City. A tolled highway connecting the major cities of New York was first proposed in 1949. The first section of the Thruway, between Lowell, New York (south of Rome) and Rochester, opened on June 24, 1954. The remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoharie Creek
Schoharie Creek is a river in New York (state), New York that flows north from the foot of Indian Head Mountain (New York), Indian Head Mountain in the Catskill Mountains, Catskills through the Schoharie Valley to the Mohawk River. It is twice impounded north of Prattsville, New York, Prattsville to create New York City, New York City's Schoharie Reservoir and the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project, Blenheim-Gilboa Power Project. The Erie Canal crossed over the creek by an aqueduct at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site. Two notable bridge collapses have occurred on Schoharie Creek. In 1987, two spans of the New York State Thruway Schoharie Creek Bridge collapse, collapsed. On August 28, 2011, the covered Old Blenheim Bridge collapsed due to flooding from Hurricane Irene (2011), Hurricane Irene. Geography Watershed and tributary streams Schoharie Creek is part of the drainage system of the Hudson River watershed and a direct tributary of the Mohawk River. Tributa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
