Herkimer Sentence Examples

It is served by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway, and by the Oneonta & Mohawk Valley electric line connecting with the New York Central railway at Herkimer.

Ionia was settled in 1833 by immigrants from German Flats, near Herkimer, New York.

The danger to the fort roused General Nicholas Herkimer to gather a force of between 700 and moo men (including some Oneida Indians), who during their advance on the 6th of August were ambuscaded in a ravine near Oriskany, about 8 m.

The principal forest area is in the Adirondack region where the state has a forest preserve (in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren and Washington counties) containing (1909) 1, 53 0, 559 acres, and there is as much or more in private preserves and in tracts owned by lumbermen.

On the 6th of August he was met at Oriskany by General Nicholas Herkimer and forced to retreat.

During the War of Independence the Pennsylvania members of the Church were mostly attached to the American cause, and Nicholas Herkimer and Baron von Steuben were both Reformed; but in New York and in the South there were many German Loyalists.

The mountains are easily reached from Plattsburgh, Port Kent, Herkimer, Malone and Saratoga Springs.

His Theory of Preaching (1881) and English Eliakim Phelps afterwards lived in Stratford, Herkimer county, New York, where his house was "possessed" and was long a place of curious interest to students of "spiritualism."

Here General Herkimer began his advance to raise the siege of Fort Schuyler (1777), and subsequently Ilion was the rendezvous of Benedict Arnold's force during the same campaign.

Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc. is located in Herkimer County, New York.

A Herkimer diamond, however, is formed in the earth with a natural geometrical shape, giving it the appearance of having been cut by a jeweler.

One of the most believable ones is how Revolutionary War hero, General Herkimer, heard of the discovery of a diamond field made by two of his soldiers.

While Herkimer diamonds are officially classified as quartz crystals, they are in fact much harder than typical quartz.

Diamonds are gauged for hardness based on the Mohs hardness scale of one to ten with ten being the hardest substance, and Herkimer diamonds rate higher than standard quartz, though they are softer than genuine diamonds.

Herkie jumps are named after Lawrence Herkimer, a male cheerleader whose nickname was "Herkie".

Lawrence Herkimer actually invented Herkie jumps by accident.

Although Herkimer is still physically active in his 80s at the time of this writing, he can no longer perform the jump he invented.