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unusual facts about Mohawk Valley


Episcopal Diocese of Albany

In 1704 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel sent two missionaries to the Mohawk Valley, where the first Anglican church was erected in 1711.


John Brown of Pittsfield

He was killed in action on his 36th birthday near the ruins of Fort Keyser in Stone Arabia, NY, on the Mohawk Valley frontier.

Riverside Drive Viaduct

The south and north approaches are of rock-faced Mohawk Valley limestone with Maine granite trimmings, the face work being of coursed ashlar.


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Hartwick, New York

Discontent with the sparsely settled communities of Palatine Germans in the Mohawk Valley to the north, which Hartwick believed made people immoral, he bought the original Hartwick Patent with the intent to build a "New Jerusalem".

Mohawk Valley Prowlers

The Mohawk Valley Prowlers were a United Hockey League team which played from 1998 until January 2001 in Utica, New York.