UTICA, a town of the United States of North America, New York, on the south bank of the Mohawk, 95 miles W.N.W. of Albany. It is regularly laid out, and for the most part well built of brick or stone. It contains about twenty churches of different sects, several schools, public libraries, banks, and a large state lunatic asylum. The manufactures include two cotton factories, woollen factories, iron foundries, tanneries, a manufactory of railway carriages, and one of locks. As the town stands in a fertile and
Utrecht populous district, and is connected with all the important towns in the vicinity by railways, canals, and roads, it is a place of considerable trade. Pop. (1850) 17,565, (1853) estimated at 20,000.