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The Mohawk Valley region of the U.S. state of New York is the area surrounding the Mohawk River, sandwiched between the Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains, northwest of the Capital District. As of the 2010 United States Census , the region's counties have a combined population of 622,133 people.
Record of Valley events from the opening of the Erie Canal to the end of the Civil War — Town building and manufacturing in the Mohawk Valley stimulated by the Erie Canal — Reform movements of the period, abolition, women's suffrage, and equal rights, temperance — Elizabeth Cady Stanton of Johnstown, pioneer American suffragist, joined by ...
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The story of the Mohawk Valley, from 1760 to 1775, covers the relatively greatest period of development in our three hundred years of growth as a civilized region. The population of Albany County, in 1756, was 14,805 whites and 2,656 blacks, a total of 17,424.
Hamilton, county, northeastern New York state, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region located in the centre of Adirondack Park (1892), which is one of the largest parks in the United States and the nation’s first forest preserve.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Come explore America's rich heritage- visit places where great events, and heroic people shaped our national history and changed the world. » Discover More About the Mohawk Valley Region. History comes to life with this interactive website.
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From the oldest living participatory democracy of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy to the Palatine migration, Revolutionary War, Industrial Revolution, First U.S. Cheese Market, Erie Canal, and so much more, the Mohawk Valley has a wealth of history that attracts historians, archeologists, scholars, genealogists and tourists.
