City of Gloversville, NY Website
Town of Gloversville, NY Website
Gloversville was originally settled by New England Puritans in the 1790's. In the ensuing decades as the community grew, leather tanning became a prominent local industry due to the purity and abundance of water and the availability of hemlock bark as a source of tannin. As a result, the manufacture of gloves became widespread as a cottage industry. It was in 1828 that the settlement was officially given its current name upon the establishment of the first post office.
Steady growth followed not only through manufacturing but by reason of Gloversville's prominence as a gateway to the Adirondacks with its rich supplies of lumber, firs and other forest products. Even today, Gloversville has greater and immediate access to the Adirondack wilderness than any other city.
After the Civil War, the glove industry boomed, causing large numbers of immigrants from many of Europe's glove making centers to make their new homes here.
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