Fonda, NY

Fonda is a village in and the county seat of Montgomery County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 668 residents. The village developed at the site of a historic Mohawk settlement. Fonda is named after Douw Fonda, a Dutch-American settler who was killed and scalped in 1780, during a Mohawk raid in the Revolutionary War. Fonda's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider New York setting. The local scoop is how Fonda's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. At that time the tribe was allied with the British, in the hopes of removing settlers from their territory. The village of Fonda developed near the site of the former Mohawk village of Caughnawaga, also known as Kahnawà:ke. Here the Mohawk had cultivated corn in the floodplain on the north side of the Mohawk River.