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Cohoes, New York

Cohoes
City
Cohoes, NY, skyline.jpg
Downtown seen from the west
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Name origin: Dutch adaptation of Mohawk "Ga-ha-oose" for "place of the falling canoe"
Motto: A Community That Cares
Nickname: Spindle City
Country United States
State New York
Region Capital District
County Albany
Landmark Cohoes Falls, Harmony Mills
River Hudson, Mohawk
Center City Hall
 - elevation 80 ft (24 m)
 - coordinates 42°46′45″N 73°42′46″W / 42.77917°N 73.71278°W / 42.77917; -73.71278Coordinates: 42°46′45″N 73°42′46″W / 42.77917°N 73.71278°W / 42.77917; -73.71278
Highest point Elizabeth Court
 - elevation 310 ft (94 m)
 - coordinates 42°46′54″N 73°43′40″W / 42.78167°N 73.72778°W / 42.78167; -73.72778
Lowest point Hudson River
 - elevation 10 ft (3 m)
Area 4.2 sq mi (11 km2)
 - land 3.7 sq mi (10 km2)
 - water 0.5 sq mi (1 km2)
Population 16,168 (2010)
Density 4,145.8/sq mi (1,601/km2)
Incorporation as village 1848
Incorporation as city 1869
Government City Hall
 - location 97 Mohawk Street

Cohoes, NY 12047

 - coordinates 42°46′28″N 73°41′59″W / 42.77444°N 73.69972°W / 42.77444; -73.69972
Mayor George E. Primeau (D)
Timezone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 - summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP Code 12047
Area code 518
FIPS code 36-16749
GNIS feature ID 0947009
Official newspaper The Record
Albany County New York incorporated and unincorporated areas Cohoes highlighted.svg
Location in Albany County and the state of New York.
Map of USA NY.svg
Location of New York in the United States
Statistics: City-data.com
Website: City of Cohoes, NY

Cohoes, NY 12047

Cohoes, New York (/kəˈhs/ kə-HOHSS) is an incorporated city located at the northeast corner of Albany County in the U.S. state of New York. It is called the "Spindle City" because of the importance of textile manufacturing to its growth in the 19th century. The city's factories processed cotton from the Deep South, produced on plantations in the slave states.

As of the 2010 census, the city population was 16,168. The name Cohoes is believed derived from a Mohawk term, Ga-ha-oose, referring to the Cohoes Falls and meaning "Place of the Falling Canoe," an interpretation noted by Horatio Gates Spafford in his 1823 publication "A Gazetteer of the State of New York". Later historians posited that the name is derived from the Algonquian Cohos, a place name based on a word meaning 'pine tree'.

In the early years of Dutch colonial settlement, the majority of the city's territory was once part of the area of Manor of Rensselaerswyck, a feudal-style manor or patroonship. The land north of a line crossing the Cohoes Falls (today Manor Avenue) was outside the Manor and was owned by the Van Olohde family between 1725 and 1750. Rensselaerswyck was established by Killiaen Van Rensselaer, the patroon and a Dutch merchant. In 1632 he had an agent pace off an enormous triangle-shaped area around the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, from the Peebles Island northwest to the Cohoes Falls and south to today's Watervliet; this area was the core of the future city of Cohoes. Starting in the 1690s the Patroon began to issue leases for the area of Cohoes, reserving for himself a strip below the Cohoes Falls for the future site of mills powered by water.


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