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Mohawk River: Cohoes Falls
Mohawk River: Cohoes Falls Cohoes Falls (or Great Falls) on the Mohawk River, Cohoes, New York.

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Cohoes, city, Albany county, eastern New York, U.S. It lies at the Cohoes Falls (locally called the Great Falls; 70 feet [21 metres] high) of the Mohawk River, where it tumbles into the Hudson River. Settled in 1665 by the Dutch Van Schaick family on the colonial military road between Albany (10 miles [16 km] south) and Lake George, its name is of Algonquian origin and means “pine tree.” Growth was influenced by the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the construction of a dam at the falls, which provided abundant waterpower. An early textile centre, it has ...(100 of 131 words)

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