ONEONTA  , a

city in the township of the same name, in the south-central part of Otsego county, New York, U.S.A., on the N. side of the Susquehanna river, about 82 m . S.W. of Albany . Pop . (188o) 3002, (1890) 6272, (1900) 7147, of whom 456 were foreign-born, (191o, U.S. census) 9491 . The city lies about I10o ft. above sea-level . It is served by the Ulster & Delaware, by the Susquehanna division of the Delaware & Hudson, and by the Oneonta & Mohawk Valley (electric) railways . In Oneonta are a state normal school (1889), a state armoury, and the Aurelia Fox Memorial Hospital . The city is situated in a good agricultural region . The principal manufactures are machine-shop products (the Delaware & Hudson has repair and machine shops at Oneonta), knit goods, silk goods, lumber and planing mill products, &c . The first settlement was made about 1780 . The township was erected in 183o from parts of Milford and Otego . Oneonta was known as Milfordville until 1830, when it received its present name .

It was first incorporated as a

village in 1848, and was chartered as a city in 1908, the charter coming into effect on the 1st of January 1909 . The name " Oneonta " is derived from Onahrenton or Onarenta, the Indian name of a creek flowing through the city . See Edwin F . Bacon, Otsego County, N.Y . (Oneonta, 1902); and Dudley M . Campbell, A History of Oneonta (Oneonta, 1906) .