Fort Plain, New York
| Fort Plain, New York | |
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 Fort Plain, New York
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| Coordinates: 42°55′51″N 74°37′29″W / 42.93083°N 74.62472°WCoordinates: 42°55′51″N 74°37′29″W / 42.93083°N 74.62472°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Montgomery |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Guy Barton |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.4 sq mi (3.7 km2) |
| • Land | 1.4 sq mi (3.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0.1 sq mi (0.1 km2) |
| Elevation | 305 ft (93 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,322 |
| • Density | 1,700/sq mi (630/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 13339 |
| Area code(s) | 518 |
| FIPS code | 36-26924 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0950490 |
Fort Plain is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 2,322. The village is named after a fort built during the American Revolution at the junction of the Mohawk River and its tributary Otsquago Creek.
The village of Fort Plain is at the border of the Towns of Minden and Canajoharie and is west of Amsterdam.
Because of its small size and the close connections with neighboring communities, some former residents who now live in more populous regions use Fort Plain to refer collectively to the village of Fort Plain and the surrounding villages of Nelliston, Canajoharie, and Palatine Bridge.
The village is in a region where the Mohawk had four major villages along the Mohawk River in the 17th century. They historically had occupied territory west of the Hudson River and extending up to the St. Lawrence River and south to the Delaware Water Gap, but their main villages were located close to the Mohawk River. Tionondogue, also called Tionnontogen, was located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Fort Plain. It was said to be the largest, and is sometimes listed as the principal town of the Mohawks. Due to losses from a smallpox epidemic in 1635, the Mohawk reduced their villages to three. By the early 18th century they had two major villages.
In 1738, the governor of New York built a stone house here for the use of his sons. Other early settlers included Palatine Germans, whom the Mohawk had permitted to settle in exchange for gaining help with their defenses in 1712 from Queen Anne of England. Anne's government had supported immigration of the Protestant Germans as religious refugees and paid for their passage, for which they exchanged work in New York in camps along the Hudson River. As the Mohawk requested, Queen Anne ordered the construction of Fort Hunter in 1712 near Tionondoraga; that village was also known by Europeans as the "Lower Castle."
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