Schenectady County, New York
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About Schenectady County
Schenectady County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,061. The county seat is Schenectady. The name is from a Mohawk language word meaning "on the other side of the pine lands," a term that originally applied to Albany. The county is part of the Capital District region of the state.
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Facts
Schenectady County at a glance
- County seat
- Schenectady
- Population
- 158,061 (2020)
- Land area
- 210 sq mi
- Founded
- 1809
Communities
Largest communities in Schenectady County
- Schenectady County seatPopulation 67,047
- RotterdamPopulation 30,523
- GlenvillePopulation 29,326
- NiskayunaPopulation 23,278
- East GlenvillePopulation 11,896
Background
History of Schenectady County
This area of the river valley was historically occupied by the Mohawk people, the easternmost of the Five Nations comprising the Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee. They cultivated maize fields in the flats along the Mohawk River and had villages in the hills. European settlement started in the present-day county by Dutch colonists in the 17th century; the village of Schenectady was founded in 1661. The fur traders in Albany kept a monopoly and prohibited settlers in Schenectady from the trade; those residents mostly became farmers. Other areas of the county were also developed for farming. The English enforced the Albany monopoly on the fur trade when they took over the New Netherland colony in 1664. The English organized counties in the Province of New York in 1683; the area of the present-day Schenectady County was included in Albany County.
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