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Glens Falls

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Glens Falls, city, Warren county, east-central New York, U.S., on the Hudson River, 45 miles (72 km) north of Albany. Part of the Queensbury Patent (1759; now Queensbury town [township]), it was settled in the 1760s by Quakers as Wing’s Falls (for Abraham Wing, leader of the settlers) and was renamed (1788) for Colonel Johannes Glen, who built mills there. Lumbering, paper, and clothing industries developed based on waterpower generated by the 60-foot (18-metre) falls....

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