Editing Canaan, New York (section)

== History ==
The first settlers arrived around 1759. The town was founded in 1772 as "Kings District". The name was changed to "Canaan" in 1788. One of the oldest sections of Canaan is Frisbie Street, settled in 1770 by Gideon Frisbie, an immigrant from [[Canaan, Connecticut]].<ref>Pg. 1 – "Most Likely To Succeed" – Alan Gelb 1990 {{ISBN|0-312-92566-2}}</ref> Frisbie Street fronts what was once the [[Albany, New York|Albany]]-[[Boston]] [[stagecoach]] route.

At approximately 1 p.m. (EDT) on August 28, 1973, an F4 tornado touched down in Canaan and moved in a south-southeast direction across the Massachusetts state line into the town of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It caused significant damage to the Berkshire Farm for Boys in Canaan then “obliterated” nearly every house in its path in West Stockbridge. Finally, it leveled the Berkshire Truck Stop on Massachusetts Route 102 near the Massachusetts Turnpike, overturning and throwing trucks and cars and ripping gas pumps out of their stands. When it was over, four people had been killed (including three at the truck stop), 36 were injured, and approximately $25 million ($148 million, 2021 USD) in damage had been done.

The [[Lace House (Canaan, New York)|Lace House]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1985.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>