In which US state is the Mohawk river situated?
Mohawk River State Park Mohawk River State Park Mohawk River State Park is a undeveloped state park in the town of Niskayuna in Schenectady County, New York. The park is located adjacent to the Mohawk River. Mohawk River State Park occupies the site of the former Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve. New York State purchased the preserve from the Schenectady Museum in April 2006 for $1 million to establish the park, which was the first state park in Schenectady County. Mohawk River State Park may be accessed from a small parking area at the end of Whitmyer Drive in Niskayuna. Although the state initially planned
Mohawk River river was the highway of the native Mohawk people. the Mohawk name for the river was "Tenonanatche", "A river flowing through a mountain" (or "Yenonanatche", "going round a mountain"). The first recorded European exploration of the Mohawk was a trip by the Dutchman Harman Meyndertsz van den Bogaert in 1634. He followed the river upstream from Albany for a distance of 100 miles, including all the territory of the Mohawks. In 1661 Dutch colonists founded the city of Schenectady on the Mohawk River approximately from Albany. "For fifty years Schenectady was the outpost of civilization and Dutch-English rule in the