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HOOSICK FALLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOOSICK FALLS , a See also:

village of See also:Rensselaer See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in the township of Hoosick, 27 M. N.E. of See also:Troy, on the Hoosick See also:river. Pop. of the village (189o) 7014; (1900) 5671, of whom 1092 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 5251; (1910) 5532; of the township (1900) 8631; (1910) 8315. Hoosick Falls is served by the See also:Boston & See also:Maine Railroad, and is connected by electric railway with See also:Bennington, See also:Vermont, about 8 m. E. The falls of the Hoosick river furnish See also:water-See also:power for the manufacture of agricultural machinery by the See also:Walter A. See also:Wood Mowing and See also:Reaping See also:Machine Co., which See also:dates from 1866, the business having been started in 1852 by Walter See also:Abbott Wood (1815-1892), who was a Republican representative in See also:Congress in 1879-1883. Other manufactures are knit goods, shirts and collars and See also:paper-making machinery. Hoosick Falls was settled about 1688 by Dutch settlers—settlers from See also:Connecticut and. See also:Massachusetts came after 1763—and it was first incorporated in 1827. Three See also:miles N.E. of the village, at Walloomsac, in the township of Hoosick, the See also:battle of Bennington was fought, on the 16th of See also:August 1777.

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