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COHOES
, a See also:city of See also:Albany See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., about 9 M
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N. of Albany, at the confluence of the See also:Mohawk and See also:Hudson See also:rivers
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Pop
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(189o) 22,509; (1900) 23,910, of whom 7303 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910) 24,709
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It is served by the New York Central & Hudson See also:River and the See also:Delaware & Hudson See also:railways, by electric lines to See also:Troy and Albany, and by the See also:Erie and See also:Champlain canals
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It is primarily a manufacturing city
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See also:Hosiery and knit goods, See also:cotton See also:cloth, cotton batting, See also:shoddy, underwear and shirts and collars are the See also:principal products, but there are also extensive See also:valve See also:works and manufactories of pulp, See also:paper and paper boxes, See also:beer, pins and needles, tools and machinery, and See also:sash, doors and blinds
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The value of the factory products in 1905 was $10,289,822, of which $4,126,873, Or 40'1 %, was the value of hosiery and knit goods, Cohoes ranking fifth among the cities of the See also:United States (of 20,000 inhabitants or more) in this See also:industry, and showing a higher degree of specializa-tion in it than any other city in the United States except Little Falls, N.Y
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The Falls of the Mohawk, which furnish See also:power for the See also:majority of the manufacturing establishments, are 75 ft. high and 900 ft. broad, a large See also:dam above the falls storing the See also:water, which is conveyed through canals to the See also:mills
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Below the falls the river is crossed by two See also:fine See also:iron See also:bridges
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The city has a public library, a normal training school and the St See also:Bernard's (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) See also:Academy
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Cohoes was a See also:part of the extensive manorial See also: It was incorporated as a See also:village in 1848 and was chartered as a city in 187o . |
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