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In 2007, Gelston Castle was purchased along with the Rostropovich Mansion and 330 acres (1.3 km 2) by the Safflyn Corporation. This environmental development corporation works with companies and individuals to reduce their carbon footprint , integrate renewable energy sources, promote environmentally safe products, and lower the bottom line for ...
Gelston may refer to: Gelston, Dumfries and Galloway, a hamlet in Scotland; Gelston, Lincolnshire, a village in England; David Gelston (1744–1828), an American merchant and politician; Gelston Castle in Jordanville, New York, in the United States; Gelston Castle, a listed building in Kelton, Dumfries and Galloway, in Scotland
Mohawk is a village in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 2,731 at the 2010 census. [2] The village was named after the adjacent Mohawk River. The village is at the northern border of the town of German Flatts and adjacent to the Erie Canal. Mohawk is southeast of Utica.
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Mohawk is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 3,844 at the 2010 census. The population was 3,844 at the 2010 census. The Town of Mohawk is on the northern border of the county, west of the City of Amsterdam .
The ancient owners of Gelston were probably monks of Iona. King William, 'The Lion of Scotland', granted Gelston to the monks of Holyrood, sometime between 1165 and 1214. [2] In the Ragman roll of 1296, John of Geneleston (John de Gevelston) was recorded as owner. By 1472, Donald Maclellan of Gelston was owner.
Caughnawaga Indian Village Site (also known as the Veeder site) is an archaeological site located just west of Fonda in Montgomery County, New York. It is the location of a 17th-century Mohawk nation village. One of the original Five Nations of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee, the Mohawk lived west of Albany and occupied much of the ...
In 1677 an English visitor, Wentworth Greenhalgh wrote "Tionondogue is doubly Stockadoed around, has four Ports four foott wide a piece, contains about thirty houses, is situated on a Hill a Bow shott from the Mohawk river." [3] In 1679 the Jesuits left the Mohawk Valley and took a large number of converts with them to Kahnawake, near Montreal. [1]