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Glens Falls city (1990 pop. 15,023), Warren co., E central N.Y., in the foothills of the Adirondack Mts. and on the Hudson River; settled 1762, inc. as a city 1908. Major industries include lumber, paper, and electronics. A navy training center is there. Noteworthy are Cooper's Cave and the Hyde Collection art museum. Charles Evans Hughes was born in Glens Falls.

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Glens Falls, New York/USA Wing's Falls Settled by 1770 and named after Abraham Wing, it was renamed in 1788 after Colonel Johannes Glen, also known as John Glenn, who built paper mills here. The Native Americans called the Falls Chepontuc ‘Difficult Place to get round’.

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