Fort Edward, a village and town of Washington co., New York, on the E. bank of the Hudson river, and on the Champlain canal, 40 m. N. of Albany; pop. of the village in 1870, 3,492; of the town, 5,125. The Rensselaer and Saratoga railroad and the Glen's Falls branch unite here. The village contains a weekly* newspaper, two national banks with a capital of $370,000, a state bank with $100,000 capital, extensive manufactories of "congress bitters and of turbine water wheels, three saw mills, a foundery and machine shop, a blast furnace, a brewery, two manufactories of stoneware, and one each of paper, malt, matches and brooms, razor strops, and fanning mills. The Fort Edward collegiate institute in 1872 had 15 instructors, 420 pupils, of whom 141 were females, and a library of 1,000 volumes.