GLENS FALLS, N. Y., city in Warren County on the Hudson River, Glens Falls Feeder to Champlain Canal and the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and Hudson Valley Trol ley System (running from Warrensburg to Troy) •, about 56 miles north from Albany, 50 miles from Troy, 18 miles from Saratoga and 9 miles from Lake George. The river at this point has a descent of about 60 feet with a suc cession of falls and rapids. Cooper in
several miles of paved streets, a paid fire de partment, police and all modern municipal equipments. The city owns its own water works system. Glens Falls has an excellent union school system and its high school build ing completed in 1906 cost over $120,000. It has also Saint Diary's and Glens Falls academies, Crandall Free Library, Parks' Hospital, Glens Falls Hospital, Glens Falls Home for Aged Women and the Crandall Park. There are many fine buildings, including the home office building of the Glens Falls Insurance Com pany, the State Armory of Company K, 2d Regiment, N. Y. M., the Ordway Memorial Y. M. C. A. Building, the Village Hall (costing $60,000), and the Empire Theatre Building. There are churches comprising all the leading denominations. Glens Falls has several na tional banks and a trust company with a com bined capital of over half -a million dollars. Glens Falls is situated on the Great War Trail leading from Lake George to Albany. Just outside the city limits at the Half-Way Brook was located throughout the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War a fortified post. A tablet was erected in 1905 by the New York State Historical Association commemorating the two massacres which nc cuffed at that spot during this period, also the encampment there of General Riedesel with Burgoyne's forces while on their way to Sara toga. Glens Falls was settled in 1763; incor porated in 1837 and again in 1874 and 1887. In 1864 the village was practically destroyed by fire. In 1884 and also in '902 it was visited by disastrous conflagrations entailing a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pop. 16,362.