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Cohoes ( /kəˈhoʊs/ kə-HOHSS) is an incorporated city located at the northeast corner of Albany County in the US state of New York. It is called the “Spindle City” because of the importance of textile production to its growth. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 16,168. The name was believed to have arisen from a Mohawk expression, “Ga-ha-oose”, referring to the Cohoes Falls and meaning “Place of the Falling Canoe,” an interpretation originated by Horatio Gates Spafford in his 1823 publication “A Gazetteer of the State of New York”. Later historians posited that the name is derived from the Algonquian “Cohos,” which is a place name based on a word meaning ‘pine tree’.
The majority of the city was once part of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, a Dutch colonial feudal system; however the land north of a line crossing the Cohoes Falls (today Manor Avenue) was outside of the Manor and was owned by the Van Olohde family between 1725 and 1750. Rensselaerswyck was established by…
