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Paperback Mechanicville Book

ISBN: 0738599190

ISBN13: 9780738599199

Mechanicville

(Part of the Images of America: New York Series)

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In 1764, groups of independent craftsmen began forming a small settlement near the junction of the Tenendehowa Creek and the Hudson River that eventually came to be called Mechanicville. Although neighboring farmers classified them as lowly "mechanics," residents chose to embrace the derogative term rather than shrink from it. In 1815, the Mechanicville Post Office opened its doors, and the community's identity began to grow. A century later, Irish,...

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