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Cambridge is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area . [ 3 ] The town population was 1,952 at the 2020 census.
The Cambridge Historic District is located in an irregular pattern along streets in the village of Cambridge in Washington County, New York.It is a 105-acre (42 ha) area reflecting the extent of the village when it was first incorporated in the 1860s and its subsequent development in the years the Rice Seed Company, largest in the world at the time, was located here.
The settlement is named after Cambridge in England. The town and village named Cambridge were once in Albany County, but were transferred to Washington County in 1791. Hubbard Hall in Cambridge is an 1878 Victorian Opera House, a contributing property to the Cambridge Historic District located on East Main street. It fell into disuse in the ...
Spans Hoosic River north of NY 67: Buskirk: part of the Covered Bridges of Washington County Thematic Resource (TR) 6: Cambridge Historic District: Cambridge Historic District: November 15, 1978 : Irregular pattern along Main and S. Union Sts.
When counties were established in the colony of New York in 1683, the present Washington County was part of Albany County.This was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present state of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean.
Photo by Cliff Oliver Photo by Jon Barber. The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater is an opera company founded by its artistic director Alexina Jones in 2008. [9]HHOT presents operatic performances of classically trained singers and instrumentalists in New England and upstate New York, [10] [11] and provides affordable cultural entertainment for rural audiences.
A 1777 map depicting Lake Champlain and the upper Hudson River. In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the French decided to construct a fort here. Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon. [9]
New Skete is the collective term for two Orthodox Christian monastic communities in Cambridge, New York (geographically in the town of White Creek): The Monks of New Skete, a men's monastery founded in 1966, and; the Nuns of New Skete, a women's monastery founded in 1969.