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History of Amsterdam, New York, USA

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Visit Amsterdam, New York, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1854 - Amsterdam
  Amsterdam, a township in the N. E. extremity of Montgomery county, New York, about 30 miles N. E. from Albany. Population. 4128.
  
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• 1869 - Amsterdam
  AMSTERDAM, named from the place in Holland from which many of the early settlers came, was formed from Caughnawaga, March 12, 1793. Perth, Fulton...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1870 - An Amsterdam (N. Y.) man has invented a patent glass coffin, which can be hermetically sealed after the air is exhausted, thus preserving bodies perfectly without embalming.
  
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  February 26, 1870
  
  
• 1889 - Nov. 9 - Sanford & Son's carpet mills, Amsterdam, N. Y., shut down for some time, resumed operations.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  January 5, 1889
  
  
• 1895 - Amsterdam
  Amsterdam, a city of Montgomery co., N.Y., on the Mohawk River, and on the New York Central and the West Shore Railroads, 33 miles N.W. of Albany. It ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Gas-Ko-Sa-Da, The Fall, Amsterdam, N.Y.
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  East Main Street
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  Sanford Mills
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  Pawling Street, Hagaman, N.Y., 1907
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• 1916
  Amsterdam, a city of Montgomery co., N.T., on the Mohawk River and on the New York Central and Hudson River and the West Shore Rs., 33 miles NW. of...Read MORE...