Cohoes Falls powered a canal-era manufacturing boom
The name Cohoes comes down from a word used for the falls at the head of the Mohawk River, land the Dutch brewer Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick received by grant from Mahican chiefs in 1665 near what's now Van Schaick Island. Water, not just history, defines the place: the 1811 Cohoes Manufacturing Company drew directly on the Mohawk, and once the Champlain and Erie canals reached the area in the 1820s, the newly formed Cohoes Company took over the falls' water-power rights in 1826, setting up the Harmony Mills complex that by 1872 was the largest cotton-mill operation in the world.
What that water-power legacy means for a Cohoes water line
Mill-worker rowhousing built up around Harmony Mills' 1836-1872 expansion had its plumbing added in waves rather than all at once -- an original iron or lead service line, a later copper repipe, then whatever patchwork followed. A supply-line or drain job in one of these older Cohoes blocks should start by tracing what's actually in the walls rather than assuming a single, consistent installation era.
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