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Utica

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located on Mohawk River & Barge Canal; famous Amerindian council stone is nearby; settled by Dutch & Palatinate Germans; British arrived in 1758; destroyed in Tory-Amerindian raid, but rebuilt; grew after arrival of Erie Canal in 1825.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);

Born

Arthur B. Davies (American, 1862-1928)

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