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United States . The manufacture of flour and grist-mill products was formerly an important industry; a mill burned in 1782 by Tories and Indians had supplied almost the entire Mohawk Valley, and particularly Forts Herkimer and Dayton . Near the city is the grave of General Nicholas Herkimer, to whom a monument was erected in 1896 . Little Falls was settled by Germans in 1782, and was almost immediately destroyed by Indians and Tories . It was resettled in 1790, and was incorporated as a village in 1811 and as a city in 1895 . See George A . Hardin, History of Herkimer County (Syracuse, 1893) .