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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 90 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COOPER 

UNION the
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Oneonta &
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Mohawk Valley electric railway . The
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village lies in the midst of a hop-growing and dairying region, and has cheese factories and creameries . It has a public library, Thanks-giving hospital, a Y.M.C.A. hall, and the Diocesan orphanage (
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Protestant Episcopal) .
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Cooperstown is a summer resort, Otsego Lake (9 M. long and with an
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average width of about 1 m.), the " Glimmerglass " of Cooper's novels, being one of the most picturesque of the New York lakes . Cooperstown occupies the site of an old
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Indian
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town . In 1785 the site became the
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property of Judge William Cooper, who in the following
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year founded there a village which took his name and was incorporated in 1807 . Judge Cooper himself settled here with his
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family in 1790 . His son, James Fenimore Cooper, who lived here for many years and is buried in the Episcopal cemetery here, made the region famous in his novels . See J . Fenimore Cooper, The Chronicles of Cooperstown (Coopers-town, 1838) .

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