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Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/metro-city/99mfips.txt )〕 The population was 14,700 at the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Census Bureau )〕 The name was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls referring to a large waterfall in the Hudson River at the southern end of the city.〔 Glens Falls is a city located in the southeast corner of Warren County, surrounded by the town of Queensbury to the north, east, and west, and by the Hudson River and Saratoga County to the south. Glens Falls is known as "Hometown U.S.A.", a title given to it by ''Look Magazine'' in 1944. The city has also referred to itself as the "Empire City."〔 〕 == History == As a halfway point between Forts Edward and William Henry, the falls was the site of several battles during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. The then-hamlet was mostly destroyed by fire twice during the latter conflict, forcing the Quakers to abandon the settlement until the war ended in 1783. Fire also ravaged the village in 1864, 1884, and 1902.〔 The area was originally called ''Chepontuc'' (Iroquois; "difficult place to get around"), also referred to as the "Great Carrying Place," but was renamed "The Corners" by European-American settlers.〔 In 1766 it was renamed Wing's Falls for Abraham Wing – the leader of the group of Quakers who established the permanent settlement – and for the falls on the Hudson River. Wing's claim to the name of the falls and the hamlet was transferred to Colonel Johannes Glen of Schenectady in 1788, either on collection of a debt, as a result of a game of cards, or in exchange for hosting a party for mutual friends, depending on which local legend is believed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Warren County, H. P. Smith – Chapter XXV: History of the Patent and Town of Queensbury – Part 2 )〕〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Towns and Cities of the Southern Adirondacks: City of Glens Falls, Warren County )〕 Colonel Glen changed the name to "Glen's Falls," though it was often printed with varying spelling such as "Glenn's," or "Glens". The spelling "Glens Falls" came to be the common usage.〔 A post office was established in 1808.〔 Glens Falls became an incorporated village in 1839,〔 and was re-incorporated in 1874 and 1887, expanding the village to what would become the city limits when the city charter was granted by the state legislature in 1908,〔 at which time the city became independent from the town of Queensbury. In 2003, with permission from Queensbury, Glens Falls annexed approximately of the town. The land, known as Veterans Field〔 or the Northway Industrial Park, is on Veterans Road between Luzerne Road and Sherman Avenue〔 and is just east of I-87. The land was vacant at the time.〔 A thin, strip of Sherman Avenue was part of this annexation, in order to comply with state law regarding contiguity of annexed land. Both the city and town share ownership of this stretch of highway as a result.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glens Falls, New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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