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Watervliet, New York
Population: 10,207
Located in Albany County
Watervliet is a city in Albany County, New York, USA. The population was 10,207 at the 2000 census. The City of Watervliet is north of Albany, New York and is at the east border of the Town of Colonie. The city calls itself "the Arsenal City." The Watervliet Arsenal, founded in 1813, is the oldest Federal arsenal in the country; it was the sole manufacturing facility for large caliber cannons. The junction of the main route of the Erie Canal to Buffalo and the Lake Champlain branch was in Watervliet, and a weigh station and a center for paying canal boat operators was located there. Watervliet is on the west bank of the Hudson River.
Welcome to Watervliet Arsenal, the nation's oldest and, in many ways, newest, manufacturing arsenal. Founded in 1813 to support the "Second War for Independence," the War of 1812, the arsenal has been a valuable resource ever since. In 1887, the arsenal became America's "Cannon Factory." It is America's sole manufacturing facility for large caliber cannon in volume. (Watervliet is pronounced water-vuh-leet)
Located along the Hudson River, just a few miles north of the state capital at Albany, Watervliet Arsenal continues to produce today's high tech, high powered weaponry. Cannon -- the finest cannon manufactured in the world today -- remains the principal product of Watervliet Arsenal. The guns manufactured at Watervliet Arsenal provide the firepower for the Army's main battlefield tank, the M1A1 Abrams.
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