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WHITEHALL

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 604 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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village of See also:Washington See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in a township of the same name on the Poultney See also:river and the See also:Champlain See also:Canal, at the See also:head of See also:Lake Champlain, and 78 m. by See also:rail N. by E. of See also:Albany. Pop. (1890) 4434; (1900) 4377, of whom 547 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 4148; (1910) 4917. Whitehall is served by the See also:Delaware & See also:Hudson railway, and is the N. See also:terminus of the new See also:barge-canal See also:system of New York See also:state. It is situated in a narrow valley between two hills called See also:West See also:Mountain and See also:Skene's Mountain, and See also:Wood See also:Creek flows through the village and empties into the lake with a fall, from which valuable See also:water-See also:power is derived; there are various manufactures, and the village owns and operates the water See also:works. In 1759, to strengthen the See also:British hold on See also:Canada, a large See also:tract of See also:land at the S. end of Lake Champlain was granted to See also:Colonel See also:Philip Skene (1725-1810), who fought at See also:Ticonderoga in 1758 and in 1759, and who established here in 1761 a See also:settlement of about See also:thirty families which he called Skenesborough and which was patented in 1765. Skene was a Loyalist, and in May 1775 Skenesborough was seized by a party of See also:American See also:volunteers. In See also:Burgoyne's expedition (1777) Skene and his son, See also:Andrew Philip Skene (1753-1826), served as guides, and Skenesborough was recovered by the British after most of it had been burned by the Americans. At the See also:close of the See also:war Skene's See also:estate was confiscated and in 1786 the See also:place was named Whitehall. In the War of 1812 Whitehall was fortified and was a See also:base of supplies for American operations against Canada. It was incorporated as a village in 18o6.

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