Hoosick Falls, New York

City: Hoosick Falls

County: Rensselaer

State: New York

Lat/Long: 42.9000, -73.3500

Europeans first settled the area currently known as Hoosick Falls in 1638. Additional settlers moved deeper into the present-day boundaries of Hoosick Falls in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and Hoosick was organized as a town in March 1788. Hoosick Falls was one of its largest villages, located at the falls of the Hoosick River. Settlers utilized the falls for water-powered manufacturing starting in the late-eighteenth century. The U.S. Post Office Department granted the village a post office in 1822, and the village was incorporated in 1827 with fifty buildings and a population of 200. The famous John P. Manny reaper was manufactured in Hoosick Falls beginning in the 1850s.

George B. Anderson, Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason, 1897), 416, 418-19, 421, 423-24, 428; Rutherford Hayner, Troy and Rensselaer County New York (New York: Lewis Historical, 1925), 93.