Editing Glens Falls, New York (section)

==History==
[[Image:Glenn Falls 1841.jpg|thumb|"Glenn Falls", 1841]]
[[File:Glens Falls, N.Y. LOC 75694777.jpg|thumb|Panoramic map with list of landmarks, 1884]]

The area is originally called Chepontuc ("difficult place to get around") in the Iroquoian languages of the area's Indigenous inhabitants. It also referred to as the "Great Carrying Place." Later, European-American settlers named the area "The Corners" in English.<ref name="book"/>

As a halfway point between [[Fort Edward (town), New York|Fort Edward]] and [[Fort William Henry]], the falls was the site of several battles during the [[French and Indian War]] and the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. The then-[[Hamlet (New York)|hamlet]] was mostly destroyed by fire twice during the latter conflict, forcing the [[Quakers]] to abandon the settlement until the war ended in 1783. Fire also ravaged the village in 1864, 1884, and 1902.<ref name="book"/>

In 1766 it was renamed Wing's Falls for Abraham Wing – the leader of the group of Quakers who established the permanent settlement – and for the falls on the Hudson River. Wing's claim to the name of the falls and the hamlet was transferred to Colonel Johannes Glen of Schenectady in 1788, either on collection of a debt, as a result of a game of cards, or in exchange for hosting a party for mutual friends, depending on which local legend is believed.<ref name="roots">{{cite web |url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywarren/countyhistory/smith/xxv_part2.htm |title=History of Warren County, H. P. Smith – Chapter XXV: History of the Patent and Town of Queensbury – Part 2 |publisher=Ancestry.com |access-date=July 26, 2010 |archive-date=February 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225112509/http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywarren/countyhistory/smith/xxv_part2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="book"/><ref name="ARCC2">{{cite web |url=http://www.adirondackchamber.org/liveandwork/towns.cfm#glensfalls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317014614/http://www.adirondackchamber.org/liveandwork/towns.cfm#glensfalls |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 17, 2010 |title=Towns and Cities of the Southern Adirondacks: City of Glens Falls, Warren County |publisher=Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce |access-date=July 26, 2010 }}</ref> Colonel Glen changed the name to "Glen's Falls," though it was often printed with varying spelling such as "Glenn's," "Glenville",<ref>Map of the Hudson River, Showing Glenville, NY. David Rumsey Map Collection. Accessed May 16, 2025. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~237245~5511082?qvq=w4s%3A%2Fwhere%2FHudson%2BRiver%3Bq%3Aalbany%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&mi=53&trs=54#.</ref> or "Glens". The spelling "Glens Falls" came to be the common usage.<ref name="roots"/>

A post office was established in 1808.<ref name="book"/> Glens Falls became an incorporated village in 1839,<ref name="book"/> and was re-incorporated in 1874 and 1887,{{citation needed|date=July 2010}} expanding the village to what would become the city limits<ref name="corners">{{cite web|url=http://www.sunyacc.edu/corners/timeline/timeline.htm |title=Time Line |publisher=Chapman Historical Museum Education Department |date=January 8, 2004 |access-date=July 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203155155/http://www.sunyacc.edu/corners/timeline/timeline.htm |archive-date=February 3, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref> when the state legislature granted the city charter in 1908,<ref name="corners"/> at which time the city became independent from the town of Queensbury.

In 2003, with permission from Queensbury,<ref name="cede">{{cite news |url=http://poststar.com/news/local/article_61989812-7f07-56cb-93b7-0af4dc87f0f3.html |title=Town to cede industrial park |newspaper=The Post-Star |first=Thom |last=Randall |date=2003-05-21 |access-date=2010-07-14 |archive-date=January 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111082918/http://poststar.com/news/local/article_61989812-7f07-56cb-93b7-0af4dc87f0f3.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Glens Falls annexed approximately {{convert|49|acre|km2}} of the town. The land, known as Veterans Field<ref name="annex"/> or the Northway Industrial Park, is on Veterans Road between Luzerne Road and Sherman Avenue<ref name="cede"/> and is just east of I-87.<ref name="yahoomap-annex">{{google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2%B018'21.4%22N+73%C2%B040'18.1%22W/@43.3072783,-73.6714411,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0|title=Overview of 2003 Annexation|access-date=2015-06-06}}</ref> The land was vacant at the time.<ref name="cede"/> A thin, {{convert|0.5|mi|km}} strip of Sherman Avenue<ref name="sharesherman">{{cite news|url=http://poststar.com/news/local/article_24deb54a-1b50-5abb-9a2f-067a7f701011.html|title=City, town to share Sherman Avenue strip|newspaper=The Post-Star|date=2002-04-04|first=John|last=Gereau|access-date=2010-07-14|archive-date=January 11, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111074944/http://poststar.com/news/local/article_24deb54a-1b50-5abb-9a2f-067a7f701011.html|url-status=live}}</ref> was part of this annexation,<ref name="annex">{{cite news|url=http://poststar.com/news/local/article_7674a112-a94e-5050-b148-ea1d6decafb9.html|title=Glens Falls Common Council|newspaper=The Post-Star|date=2003-10-26|first=Maury|last=Thompson|access-date=2010-07-14|archive-date=January 11, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111084241/http://poststar.com/news/local/article_7674a112-a94e-5050-b148-ea1d6decafb9.html|url-status=live}}</ref> to comply with state law on contiguity of annexed land. As a result, the city and town share co-own this stretch of highway.<ref name="sharesherman"/>