WATERVLIET, a city of New York, U S.A. Pop. (1920) 16,073 (84% native white) ; 1930 Federal census 16,083. It has railroad shops and extensive manufactures of bells, iron and steel castings, stoves, ladders, woollen goods, paper and wooden boxes, asbestos products, spun silk, men's clothing and various other com modities, with an aggregate output in 1927 valued at Within the city limits is a U.S. arsenal (1807). Watervliet was
originally called West Troy. It was incorporated as a village in 1836 and as a city (under its present name) in 1896. Since 1918 it has had a commission-manager form of government. In 1776 "Mother Ann" Lee and her followers established the first Shaker settlement in America near the present site of Watervliet.