Cohoes

Cohoes, a prosperous manufacturing city of Albany county, New York, on the Hudson, at the mouth of the Mohawk, 3 miles above Troy, and on the Erie Canal. It has six large cotton-mills, and some thirty knitting-mills, besides manufactures of axes, gas-piping, machines, pulp, pins, thread, &c. Pop. (1880) 8799; (1890) 22,509.