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Canajoharie (/ ˌ k æ n ə dʒ ə ˈ h ɛər i /) is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 3,730 in 2010. [2] Canajoharie is located south of the Mohawk River on the southern border of the county. The Erie Canal passes along the northern town line. There is also a village of Canajoharie in the town.
Canajoharie (/ ˌ k æ n ə dʒ ə ˈ h ɛər i /), also known as the "Upper Castle", was the name of one of two major towns of the Mohawk nation in 1738. The community stretched for a mile and a half along the southern bank of the Mohawk River , from a village known as Dekanohage westward to what is now Fort Plain, New York .
The village and town name also refer to Canajoharie, a historic Mohawk town that was located west of here, referred to by the English colonists as the "Upper Castle." A church stands at that site from the pre-revolutionary era; the Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District is a National Historic Landmark.
Canajoharie Historic District is a national historic district located at Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York. It encompasses 836 contributing buildings , 4 contributing sites, 11 contributing structures, and 19 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of the village of Canajoharie.
Ames is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. [2] The population was 145 at the 2010 census. The Village of Ames is in the south-central part of the Town of Canajoharie and is south of the Village of Canajoharie. Ames is one of the smallest villages in New York State.
Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District is a historic district in Herkimer County, New York that was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993. [2] Located south of the Mohawk River, it includes the Indian Castle Church, built in 1769 by Sir William Johnson, British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, as a missionary church for the Mohawk in the western part of their territory; the Brant ...
The Canajoharie Creek (/ ˌ k æ n ə dʒ ə ˈ h ɛər i /) is a river that flows into the Mohawk River in the Village of Canajoharie in the U.S. State of New York. [3] The name "Canajoharie" is a Mohawk language term meaning "the pot that washes itself", referring to the "Canajoharie Boiling Pot", a 20-foot (6.1 m) wide and 10-foot (3.0 m) deep pothole in the Canajoharie Creek, just south of ...
Van Alstyne Homestead is a historic home located at Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York. It is a long, low rectangular house with a steeply pitched gambrel roof in the Dutch Colonial style. The original fieldstone house was built before 1730 and has three rooms (loft, living area, kitchen cellar) with a garret under the roof.