Assisted Living in Cohoes, NY

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Facts about Cohoes

Cohoes is also known as: Albany County / Cohoes city.

And some of the notable people born here have been: Tommy Myers (american football player).

And featured attractions of Cohoes: Cohoes Falls, Downtown Cohoes Historic District, Olmstead Street Historic District, J. Leonard Lackman House, and Lock 18 of Enlarged Erie Canal.

Cohoes, New York (/kEEˆhoESs/ kE-HOHSS) is an incorporated city located at the northeast corner of Albany County in the U.S. state of New York. It is called the "Spindle City" because of the importance of textile manufacturing to its growth in the 19th century. The city's factories processed cotton from the Deep South, produced on plantations in the slave states. New York state industries and businesses had extensive ties with the slave economy of the South. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 16,168. The name Cohoes is believed derived from a Mohawk term, Ga-ha-oose, referring to the Cohoes Falls and meaning "Place of the Falling Canoe," an interpretation noted 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, a place name based on a word meaning 'pine tree'.

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