History of Copake, New York, USA

Copake, a post-township of Columbia county. New York, 60 miles S. from Albany, intersected by the Harlem railroad. Population, 1052.

This town lies on the east border of the county, and in the second tier of towns from the south line. It contains an area of twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight acres, of which a little more than three-fourths are improved lands. It population was eighteen hundred and thirty-nine in 1860, seventeen hundred and thirty-eight in 1865, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, in 1870, and eighteen hundred and eighty-four in 1875. It ranks as the ninth town in the county, both in area and in population. It is bounded as follows: north by Hillsdale, east by the town of Mount Washington, in Massachusetts, south by Ancram, and west by Taghkanic. It is nearly square in form, being six miles wide, from east to west, and seven miles long, from north to south. The surface is broken by ranges of high hills, separated by valleys of varying width. The eastern border is formed by the range of the Taghkanic mountains, the highest part, called the "Alander," lying near the centre of the...

Copake a post-hamlet of Columbia co., N.Y., in Copake township, on the New York & Harlem and Rhinebeck & Connecticut Railroads, 105 miles N. of New York City. It has a church and a flour-mill. Pop. of the township in 1890, 1515.

Copake Iron-Works, a post-village of Columbia co., N.Y., on the New York & Harlem Railroad, 106 miles N. by E. of New York. It has a blast-furnace and 2 churches.