Editing Cohoes, New York (section)

====Mastodon discovery====
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In 1866, during excavation work for construction of Mill #3 of the Harmony Mills, the bones of a [[mastodon]] were unearthed over a period of several weeks. This mammal ranged in this territory when humans were first settling here.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

The Cohoes Mastodon skeleton was long on display in the lobby of the [[New York State Museum]] in [[Albany, New York]]. Since the early 21st century, the skeleton has been moved to a new location away from the windows, where temperature and humidity fluctuations risked damaging the skeleton. A replica complete with fur is on display at the Cohoes Public Library.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Howell, G. R.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1061143171|title=Bi-centennial history of Albany : history of the county of Albany, N.Y. from 1609 to 1886|date=1886|publisher=W.W. Munsell|pages=79|oclc=1061143171}}</ref>

Upon their completion, in 1872, the Harmony Mills were the largest cotton mill complex in the world. The Harmony Mills are an excellent example of 19th-century mill architecture. During the 19th century, numerous immigrants came to Cohoes to work in the mills, particularly [[French Canadian]]s from [[Quebec]] and [[Irish people|Irish]], who first arrived as refugees in the 1840s from the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]]. The [[Harmony Mills|Harmony Mills Historic District]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in the late 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-06-05|title=National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL)|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1568528353&ResourceType=District|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605234029/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1568528353&ResourceType=District|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-06-05|access-date=2020-06-09}}</ref>

Around the start of the 20th century, daredevil [[Bobby Leach]] practiced going over the Cohoes Falls in a barrel before he performed the same stunt at Niagara. Cohoes residents watched this feat from the lawn or the porch of The Cataract House, the Victorian hotel at the corner of North Mohawk and School streets. This site was later developed as the present School Street Power Station.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}