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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 90 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UNION the See also:Oneonta & See also:Mohawk Valley electric railway. The See also:village lies in the midst of a See also:hop-growing and dairying region, and has See also:cheese factories and creameries. It has a public library, Thanks-giving See also:hospital, a Y.M.C.A. See also:hall, and the Diocesan orphanage (See also:Protestant Episcopal). See also:Cooperstown is a summer resort, Otsego See also:Lake (9 M. See also:long and with an See also:average width of about 1 m.), the " Glimmerglass " of Cooper's novels, being one of the most picturesque of the New See also:York lakes. Cooperstown occupies the site of an old See also:Indian See also:town. In 1785 the site became the See also:property of See also:Judge See also:William Cooper, who in the following See also:year founded there a village which took his name and was incorporated in 1807. Judge Cooper himself settled here with his See also:family in 1790. His son, See also:James Fenimore Cooper, who lived here for many years and is buried in the Episcopal See also:cemetery here, made the region famous in his novels. See J. Fenimore Cooper, The See also:Chronicles of Cooperstown (Coopers-town, 1838).

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