Place:Fonda, Montgomery, New York, United States

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NameFonda
TypeVillage
Coordinates42.954°N 74.376°W
Located inMontgomery, New York, United States
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Fonda is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 795 at the 2010 census. Fonda is the county seat of Montgomery County. The village is named after Douw Fonda, an ancestor of the Fonda acting family and settler scalped during a Revolutionary War Indian raid in 1780.

The Village of Fonda is in the Town of Mohawk and is west of Amsterdam.

The Fonda Fair is an annual agricultural event.

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The village is situated at the former Mohawk village of "Caughnawaga." The village Fonda is named after the Fonda family when they settled in New Netherland in the 17th century. In Henry Fonda's autobiography, the history is given as follows:

"Early records show the family ensconced in northern Italy in the 16th century where they fought on the side of the Reformation, fled to Holland, intermarried with Dutch burghers' daughters, picked up the first names of the Low Countries, but retained the Italianate "Fonda". Before Pieter Stuyvesant surrendered Nieuw Amsterdam to the English the Fondas, instead of settling in Manhattan, canoed up the Hudson River to the Indian village of Caughnawaga. Within a few generations, the Mohawks and the Iroquois were butchered or fled and the town became known to mapmakers as Fonda, New York".

The European settler village was founded in 1751 at the site of Caughnawaga. The Caughnawaga Indian Village Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The Walter Butler Homestead was listed in 1976.

Fonda thrived by the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the arrival of the railroad in 1835. The village was incorporated in 1850.

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