Hunt, New York

Hunt is a hamlet and census-designated place in Livingston County, New York, United States. Its population was 78 as of the 2010 census.[1] Hunt has a post office with ZIP code 14846.[3][4]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an area of 0.119 square miles (0.31 km2), all of it land.[1]

Cottekill, New York

Cottekill is a small hamlet in the northwest part of the Town of Rosendale, Ulster county, New York in the United States. Located in the Rondout Valley, it is approximately 2.25 miles east of the hamlet of Stone Ridge, 2.5 miles northwest of Rosendale Village, 8.75 miles south of the city of Kingston and 10.9 miles north of the village of New Paltz. As of 2014, the population was listed at 451. It features a Post Office (12419) and its own fire department. The Brookside School, a private school for children with developmental disabilities is located here as well as the Sustainable Living Resource Center, a project of Sustainable Hudson Valley. SUNY Ulster, a Community College, is nearby in Stone Ridge. There is also the Marbletown-Rosendale Rail Trail, curving along the old New York, Ontario and Western Railway tracks, paralleling Lucas Avenue. It starts at Leggett Road, crosses the Cottekill Creek on a wooden footbridge and travels north to Cottekill Road, past the Cottekill Fire House. It continues north from the firehouse, along the O & W path, crosses Marcott Road and comes out on Route 209.

Feura Bush, New York

Feura Bush is a hamlet in the town of New Scotland, Albany County, New York. It is in the southeast corner of the town, along the Bethlehem town-line, eight miles south of Albany. The Feura Bush ZIP Code (12067) includes parts of the town of Bethlehem. It is in the Onesquethaw Volunteer Fire Company fire protection district.

Feura Bush was originally called Moaksville for an early family in the vicinity, and later called Jerusalem after the Jerusalem Reformed Church. Harmon Van Der Zee was a major landowner in the area during the mid-18th century.[2] At that time Jerusalem was a part of the town of Bethlehem, in 1832 New Scotland was erected as a separate town.[3] In the 1920s part of the Van Der Zee homestead over the town-line in Bethlehem was taken for the West Shore Railroad's Selkirk rail yard.[2] The yard was originally referred to as being in Feura Bush, being closer to this hamlet than to Selkirk, however it is today in the Selkirk ZIP Code.[4] In 1854 a plank road was established to run through Feura Bush to Houcks Corners, this section is today New York State Route 32; and then from the corners to Bethlehem Center, which today is New York State Route 910A.[5] This road was also made an official post road by the US Congress.[6]

In 1790 the Jerusalem Dutch Reformed Church was established halfway between Union (Unionville) and Jerusalem (Feura Bush). This was the first church in the area immediately south of Albany. In 1825 the church was moved to Jerusalem.[7] The Feura Bush School (Bethlehem School District Number 5) was a one-room school house built in 1885. In 1929 the school was abandoned, and was put to different uses over time until 1987 when the Feura Bush Neighborhood Association converted it to a library.[8] In 1929 a large brick school for kindergarten through eighth grade was built replacing the one-room school house. This building would be in service until around 1950.[9] The West Shore Railroad established a station here around 1870 and it was used to ferry students to Ravena for high school. Around 1940 the station was discontinued.[10] The Jerusalem (later Feura Bush) post office was once located in the Mathias Store until it moved to the hamlet's hotel in 1946 when the store was sold and converted into a residence.[11] A new post office was built in 1989.[2]

Troupsburg, New York

Troupsburg is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 1,126 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Robert Troup, an agent of the Pulteney Estate.

The Town of Troupsburg is on the southern border of Steuben county, south of Hornell, New York.

The first settler arrived in 1805. The town was formed (as "Troupsburgh") from the Towns of Canisteo and Addison on February 12, 1808.

Farmington, New York

Farmington is a town located in the northern part of Ontario County, New York, United States. The population was 11,825 at the 2010 census.[3] Farmington is about twenty-five miles southeast of Rochester, New York. The town was named after Farmington, Connecticut.[4]

Farmington was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The town was formed along with its county in 1789, and settlement of the region began the same year. Many of the early settlers were Quakers from Berkshire County, Massachusetts. In 1824, Arthur Power left Farmington with two of his sons and other Quakers to found Farmington, Michigan.

The Farmington Quaker Crossroads Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[5]