ALBANY COUNTY 



Albany County is situated at the junction of the Hudson and 

 Mohawk rivers, the eastern boundary being formed by the Hudson 

 and the northeastern by the Mohawk. It lies at the head of 

 tidewater, about 150 miles from the mouth of the Hudson. 



The total area is 337,280 acres. From east to west the county 

 measures about 25 miles; from north to south about 22 miles. 



The population is shown in the following table: 



Population by Cities and Townships 



(Census of 1915) 



'Albany ( city ) 107,979 Guilderland 3,090 



Cohoes (city) 23,433 Knox 1,101 



Watervliet (city) 14,990 New Scotland 2,924 



Berne 1,638 Rensselaerville 1,619 



Bethlehem 5,590 Westerlo 1,263 



Coeymans 4,581 



Colonie 9,989 Total 183,330 



Green Island 4,533 ===== 



•Albany is the county scat. 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



This was one of the ten original counties formed in 1683, the 

 other nine being Xew York, Westchester, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, 

 Richmond, Kings, Queens, and Suffolk. The boundaries were 

 changed during subsequent periods ; in 1768 Albany County 

 included all that part of New York lying north of Ulster and 

 Dutchess counties on both sides of the Hudson, and at one time 

 the whole of Vermont. The present limits were adopted shortly 

 after the Revolution. Its name arises from the Scotch title of the 

 Duke of York, and was first used after the surrender of the colony 

 to the English in 1064. 



Hendrirk Hudson is supposed to have made his famous trip 

 up the Hudson in the " Half Moon " in 1609, as far as the present 

 location of Albany. Within the next three or four years several 

 Dutch traders commenced the beaver trade with the Indians. 



Note: Albany has at present a population of about 113,000. 



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