Johnstown (city), New York
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State of New York.
As of the 2010 Census, the town/city had populace of 8,743. The town/city was titled after its founder, Sir William Johnson. The town/city of Johnstown is mostly surrounded by the town of Johnstown, of which it was once a part when it was a village.
Johnstown, originally "John's Town", was established in 1762 by Sir William Johnson, a Baronet who titled it after his son John Johnson. William Johnson came to the British colony of New York from Ireland in 1732. He was a trader who learned American Indian languages and culture, forming close relationships with many Native American leaders.
He established Johnstown and became one of New York's most prosperous and influential people.
Johnson, the biggest slaveholder in the county and perhaps in the state of New York, had some 60 enslaved Africans working these businesses.
Fort Johnstown, New York State Historic Site As the region initially owned and settled by Johnson grew, he convinced the governor, Lord William Tryon, to establish a new county in upstate New York west of Albany County.
This new county was titled Tryon, after the governor, and Johnstown was made the county seat. The county courthouse, assembled by William Johnson in Johnstown in 1772, partly at his own cost, still stands today, as the earliest operating courthouse in New York. Sir William Johnson died in 1774 before the American colonies declared their independence from Britain.
With region residents not knowing of Cornwallis' defeat and surrender at the Battle of Yorktown in Virginia, about 1,400 soldiers fought at the Battle of Johnstown, one of the last battles of the American Revolution, on October 25, 1781.
Marinus Willett of Johnstown, ultimately put the British to flight. During that time, many British Loyalists fled both Johnstown and the encircling area for Canada, including Johnson's surviving family.
After the American Revolution, Johnstown became part of Montgomery County when the name of Tryon County was changed to honor the Continental General Richard Montgomery, who died at the Battle of Quebec.
In 1838, Johnstown's county affiliation changed yet again when what by then remained of Mongomery County was divided into two separate counties: Montgomery and Fulton.
While the village of Fonda became the new governmental center of county of Montgomery County, Johnstown became the governmental center of county of Fulton County.
The village of Johnstown became a town/city in 1895, becoming separate from the encircling town.
In 1889, shortly after the Johnstown Flood in Pennsylvania, Johnstown New York suffered a similarly devastating flood.
It is directed by New York State as an historic site, with regularly scheduled special affairs.
Silas Talbot moved with his family to Johnstown, where he purchased Sir William Johnson's estate and manor home.
A hero of the American Revolution, he later served as a member of the New York Assembly (1792 1793) and as a congressman in the U.S.
One of the men instrumental in shaping Fulton County was Judge Daniel Cady, a prominent Johnstown resident.
Sometimes called "the father of Fulton County", Cady titled the new county after Robert Fulton, who was related by marriage to Cady's wife, Margaret Livingston.
With indirect connections by marriage to John Jacob Astor and that family's lucrative fur company interests, Daniel Cady, adept at managing these connections and his own company interests, joined the rates of the wealthiest landowners in New York.
Livingston is credited with frustrating Benedict Arnold's attempted treason by firing on The Vulture, the boat intended to carry Arnold to safety. A enhance servant as well as astute lawyer and businessman, Judge Cady served in the New York state council from 1808 until 1814.
Daniel Cady is today perhaps best known as the father of the prominent women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born in Johnstown in 1815.
Anthony and served for many years as president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), spent her childhood in Johnstown, where she studied at the Johnstown Academy.
It was one of the first schools in New York to receive a teaching certificate issued by the newly formed state education fitness in the later 19th century. After leaving to continue her education in Troy, New York, Stanton returned to Johnstown with her husband Henry Brewster Stanton, a lawyer and abolitionist who studied law under her father, Daniel Cady. Because of her part , Johnstown, together with Seneca Falls, New York, where Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848, lays claim to being the place of birth of the women's rights boss in the United States. Stanton's speech, the Declaration of Sentiments, given at the Seneca Falls convention and modeled on the Declaration of Independence, is generally credited with instigating the women's suffrage boss in the United States.
He settled in Johnstown where, backed by Sir William Johnson, he became a prosperous tanner.
With plentiful forests and the wood bark they produced, Johnstown became a center for tanning of leather amid the late 19th century.
Nicknamed the "Glove Cities", the two metros/cities are still called that today. Many fringe company once existed to support the glove and leather industries around Johnstown.
Johnstown and Gloversville were home to various glove manufacturing companies and dozens of leather tanners and finishers.
Throughout most of the history of the glove trade in Johnstown, most companies used home workers to sew the gloves.
It was directly affected by tax and tariff laws. The tanneries and glove shops flourished amid World War II when most of the "Military Black" leather gloves worn by American servicemen were produced in Fulton County. During the last half of the 20th century, however, the cities' economies steadily declined as company was lost to low-wage manufacturing operations overseas.
Today countries such as China and the Philippines produce most of the world's gloves. While some companies still remain in the Glove Cities, just a several manufacture their product in the United States. The the rest use overseas workforce to sew gloves. Today only one glove manufacturer is positioned in Johnstown, while a several operate in Gloversville. One of the early industries to establish itself in Johnstown was the Knox gelatine plant.
Knox, a prominent Johnstown resident, who advanced the granulated, unflavored gelatin still used in food preparation today. When Knox died in 1908, his wife Rose Knox assumed management of the business.
Johnstown is positioned along the southern edge of Fulton County, in the picturesque Mohawk Valley of upstate New York.
Although not a hilltown, Johnstown is close to the Adirondack Mountains that stretch athwart the northern portion of Fulton County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.88 square miles (12.65 km2), of which 4.88 square miles (12.63 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.02 km2), or 0.17%, is water. The town/city is bordered to the north, east, and west by the town of Johnstown, to the northeast by the town/city of Gloversville, and to the south by the town of Mohawk in Montgomery County.
East-west highways, New York State Route 29 and New York State Route 67, intersect in the town/city and also cross the north-south highway New York State Route 30 - A.
NY 30 - A leads northeast 4 miles (6 km) to Gloversville and 10 miles (16 km) to Mayfield, as well as south 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to Fonda and 6 miles (10 km) to the New York Thruway.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001), Johnstown city, New York".
Historic Johnstown, New York (Battle of Johnstown) Archived 2006-12-06 at the Wayback Machine.
Historic Johnstown, New York, accessed September 19, 2006.
City of Johnstown official website "Glovers, Tanners & Leather Dressers of Fulton County, New York" Darci's Place (Biography of Charles Knox, founder of Knox Gelatin in Johnstown, NY) "Battle of Johnstown", Historic Johnstown, New York "Rose Knox, First Lady of Johnstown", Historic Johnstown, New York Revolutionary Day (narrative and walking tour of historic sites of the American Revolutionary reconstructionin Johnstown, NY) "Sir William Johnson & Johnson Hall", Historic Johnstown Municipalities and communities of Fulton County, New York, United States State of New York
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Cities in Fulton County, New York - Cities in New York - County seats in New York - Populated places established in 1762
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