Utica

Utica, a city of New York, 232 miles by rail NNW. of New York City. Regularly and substantially built, it rises in a gentle slope from the south bank of the Mohawk River, and is traversed by the Erie Canal. It contains a fine United States building, a city hall, state lunatic asylum, several hospitals, and a large and handsome Masonic Home and School (begun in 1891), is a noted market for cheese, and manufactures boots and shoes, cottons and woollens, organs and pianos, machinery, starch, &c. Pop. (1880) 33,914; (1890) 44,007.