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History
The large territory of the county (much of upstate and western New York) was long occupied by the Mohawk Nation and, to the west, the other four tribes of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (increased to six with the migration of the Tuscarora from the South to New York in 1722). After European colonization of the Northeast started, the Mohawk had a lucrative fur trade with the French coming down from Canada, as well as the early Dutch colonists, and later British and German colonists.
Some Palatine Germans, who worked in camps on the Hudson to pay off their passage in 1710, later settled in this county in the 1720s and 30s. In addition, Scots-Irish immigrants settled in the present Schoharie County area before the American Revolutionary War, especially near Cherry Creek.
Schoharie County in the American Revolution
Schoharie County was created in 1795 and its name came from a Mohawk word meaning "floating driftwood."
Adjacent Counties
Towns, Villages, Hamlets & Communities
- Blenheim
- Breakabeen
- Broome
- Carlisle
- Central Bridge
- Charlotteville
- Cobleskill
- Conesville
- Esperance
- Fulton
- Fultonham
- Gallupville
- Gilboa
- Grovenors Corners
- Jefferson
- Livingstonville
- Middleburgh
- North Blenheim
- Richmondville
- Schoharie (County Seat)
- Seward
- Sharon
- Sharon Springs
- Sloansville
- Summit
- Warnerville
- West Middleburgh
- Wright
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