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69 Main St., S. Glens Falls, NY  (518) 792-3383


Only a few feet below here is the site of the historically famous Cooper's Cave, which can be seen from the bridge. The cave was made famous by James Fenimore Cooper in the first American novel, "The Last of the Mohicans". In Chapters V and VI of that novel, Hawkeye, the Scout, shoots the rapids below Glens Falls in a canoe, and hides his party in the cavern just below the falls. The cavern can be seen to this day.

The book contains an accurate description of the general area and the falls themselves as they appeared to Hawkeye, Chingachgook, Uncas and the other Fenimore characters, plus several notes by Fenimore on the appearance of Glens Falls at the time he wrote the book. At that time, he said a "good-sized village" was located at Glens Falls, but the application of water to the uses of civilized life has materially injured its beauties.

"The rocky island and the two caverns," Fenimore wrote, "are well known to every traveller, since the former sustains a pier of a bridge which is now thrown across the river immediately above the falls."

So intertwined with local history is Author Cooper that a large section of South Glens Falls bears his family name of Fenimore to this very day.

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