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Title: A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources ..
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: (Sears, Robert), 1810-1892. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, R. Sears
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, of which this town is thecapital. Remains of a road are still tobe seen, which was cut through the for-est by a brigade of General Sullivansarmy, from Fort Plain to the head ofOtsego lake ; and at the outlet are sometraces of a dam constructed by thetroops, at the direction of their com-mander, General Clinton, by which thewater was made to rise, and then, thedam being broken down, allowed it torush down in a torrent, which clearedthe channel of the incumbrances of logsthat impeded the passage. Cooperstown is deservedly admiredby travellers, and annually the resort ofcitizens, seeking the pleasures of thecountry in the summer season. Thepopulation however is small, the num-ber of dwelling-houses being only abouta hundred and sixty. The people aredistinguished for their refinement andcourteous manners. Cooperstown may be taken as a fa-vorable specimen of one of the severalclasses of New York villages : such ashave grown up since the Revolutionarywar, and have no associations with the
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164 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. sufferings and dangers of the earliersettlements, and yet removed from ca-nals and railroads, and every other in-fluence which might have given it arapid growth or sudden and great pros-perity. Left to the steady but slowimorovement of an aoricultural neio^h-borhood, it presents fewer evidences ofincrease in wealth or numbers, but isless liable to some of the evils incidentto many other places. There are a few small manufactoriesalong the banks of the outlet of thelake, where about eight thousand spin-dles are employed in cotton-spinning,and on that of Oak creek, one of thenumerous small streams in this county,most of which flow southward into theSusquehannah. Otsego county is hilly, and in someparts mountainous, being crossed by theSusquehannah and Kaatsberg ranges.There is much good grass land. Lime-stone is found near Schuylers lake inCherry Valley, and iron ore in severalplaces. Cherry Valley is one of those unfor-tunate villages which suf

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