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== History == {{refimprove|date=March 2025}} The area was first settled by Europeans around 1748. It was probably named after [[Minden]] in Germany.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jIhGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1192%2C3420646 | title=Area place names reflect local history and personalities | work=[[The Daily Gazette]] | date=April 15, 1996 | access-date=April 23, 2015 | author=Zurlo, Sam | pages=B5}}</ref> Among the early European settlers in the 18th century were [[Palatine Germans]]; these Protestants had come to New York as refugees from religious warfare. Their passage was paid by Queen [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Anne]]'s government in exchange for their work at camps along the Hudson River, producing naval stores for England. During the [[American Revolution]], rebel colonists constructed a small fort in 1778 at [[Fort Plain, New York|Fort Plain]] village. In 1780, the village was attacked by [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Tories]] and allied natives. They burned and sacked the community, but were not able to overcome the defenders at the fort. Following the war, the town of Minden was formed in 1798 from the town of [[Canajoharie, New York|Canajoharie]]. It was part of a rural area that was important for agriculture and dairy farming. In 1985, a former farm in Minden was found to be the site of a [[cocaine]] processing lab set up at a former dairy farm by the [[Cali cartel]] based in [[Colombia]]. The drug lab was shut down following a state police and federal investigation of an explosion at the site, and the [[United States Marshals Service|U.S. Marshals Service]] took control of the property.<ref name="observer">[http://www.uticaod.com/article/20110902/News/309029907 "Former site of large Herkimer Co. cocaine lab now safe, DEC says"], ''Utica Observer-Dispatch'', September 2, 2011</ref>
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