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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 792 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROCK . in the See also:

United States. The manufacture of See also:flour and grist-See also:mill products was formerly an important See also:industry; a mill burned in 1782 by Tories and See also:Indians had supplied almost the entire See also:Mohawk Valley, and particularly Forts See also:Herkimer and See also:Dayton. Near the See also:city is the See also:grave of See also:General See also:Nicholas Herkimer, to whom a See also: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 See also:village in 1811 and as a city in 1895. See See also:George A. Hardin, See also:History of Herkimer See also:County (See also:Syracuse, 1893).

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