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WATERVLIET , a See also:city of See also:Albany See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on the W. See also:bank of the See also:Hudson See also:river opposite See also:Troy and about
5 M. N. of Albany. Pop. (189o) 12,967; (1900) 14,321, of whom
2754 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 59 were negroes; (1910 See also:census)
15,074. Watervliet is served by the See also:Delaware & Hudson railway and by steamboat lines on the Hudson river, and is connected with Troy by See also:bridges and ferries, and with Albany, Troy, See also:Cohoes and See also:Schenectady by electric lines. The See also:Erie and See also:Champlain canals have their terminals a See also:short distance above the city. The city has a city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall and a public library. Watervliet is situated in a See also:good farming See also:country, but is chiefly a manufacturing See also:place; in 1905 its factory products were valued at $1,884,802 (25% more than in 1900), not including the product of the See also:United States See also:Arsenal (1807), on the river, an important manufactory of heavy See also:ordnance. The place was originally called See also:West Troy and was incorporated as a See also:village in 1836; in 1897 it was chartered as a city under its See also:present name; at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the township of Watervliet in which it was situated was divided into the townships cf Colonie and See also:Green See also:Island. In 1776 the first See also:settlement of See also:Shakers (q.v.) in See also:America was made in the township by " See also:Mother See also:Ann " See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee and her followers, who named it Niskayuna. Here " Mother Ann " died and is buried.
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