llage, the main part of which is situated on the south bank of
the Mohawk, owed its origin to a settlement made here in 1725 by
Palatine Germans, but the village as such really dates from the
completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. In 1828 Eliphalet Remington
(1793-1861) established here a small factory for the manufacture of
rifles. He invented, and with the assistance of his sons, Philo, Samuel
and Eliphalet, improved the famous Remington rifle.

In 1856 the company added to its business the manufacture of farming
tools, in 1870 of sewing machines and in 1874 of typewriters. The
last-named industry was sold to another company in 1886, and soon
afterwards, on the failure of the original Remington company, the fire
arms factory was bought by a N.Y.C. firm, though the Remington name was
retained. The spot where Eliphalet had his primitive forge on the Ilion
gorge road, just south of the town, is marked by a tablet placed there
by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The principal manufactures
today are typewriters, fire-arms, cartridges, and filing cabinets and
office furniture. The annual output is valued at about $10,000,000.

237 M. UTICA, Pop. 94,156. (Train 51 passes 1:22p; No. 3, 2:31p; No.
41, 6:42p; No. 25, 7:41p; No. 19, 11:08p. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 3:57a;
No. 26, 4:31a; No. 16, 9:53; No. 22, 11:50a.)

[Illustration: Washington and Genesee Streets, Utica, in 1835

Washington Street, with the Presbyterian Church, is seen on the
left; the bridge across the Erie Canal is seen on the right, down
Genesee Street, and at its extremity the depot of the Utica and
Schenectady (now the New York Central) Railroad then recently
built.]

The territory on which Utica is built was originally part of the 22,000
acre tract granted in 1734 by George II. to William Cosby (1695-1736),
colonial governor of New York in 1732-36, and his associates. It was
then known as Cosby's Manor.

Sir William Cosby served originally as colonel in the British
army, then, after being governor of Minorca and later of the
Leeward Islands, he was sent to New York. Before leaving England,
he obtained a good deal of money for colonizing expenses, and his
refusal to share this with Van Dam, his predecessor and
colleague, gave rise to a law suit between the two which came to
nothing but was the cause of much bitterness between Cosby and
his friends on the one hand, and Van Dam and the peo