Plattekill NY Real Estate
Plattekill NY Real Estate includes the hamlets of Ardonia, Camp Sunset, Clintondale, Flint, Modena, Sylva, Tuckers Corners and the Town of Plattekill. With improved railroad access to markets, dairying grew as an occupation. However, it has been apple growing that has dominated the past century, with orchards steadily growing in size. Today, Plattekill’s landscape and economy is still dominated by orchards, irrigation ponds and storage buildings of the fruit business.
Its future is tied to the development of the Hudson Valley, projecting strong residential growth, the continued importance of agriculture and growing conflicts among competing land uses. Located in the southeastern part of Ulster County, it is bordered to the west by the Hudson River and Dutchess County, bordered to the south by the Towns of Marlborough and Plattekill and the west by the Town of New Paltz, to the north by the Town of Esopus.
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According to the U. S. Census for 2010, the town has a total area of 35.6 square miles and a population of 10,499 people, 86% white. The median income for a household is $40,448 and the per capita income for the town is $18,651.
Plattekill became a Town on March 21st, 1800, by an act of the New York State Legislature. Plattekill was the ninth town to be formed in Ulster County. It was named for the Platte kill stream located in the southern portion of the town.
The settlement of this town was commenced about the beginning of the last century. “Spafford’s Gazetteer,” 1813, says: “It is a good township of farming land and has little to invite minute detail. The inhabitants are principally famers of plain economical habits, and much of their clothing is the product of the household wheel and loom. There are 109 looms in families which annually make about 25,000 yards of cloth for common clothing. Its agriculture is rapidly improving though still inferior to that of the farming towns of Dutchess County, on the opposite side of the river.”
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The town was settled early in the 18th Century. The Town of Plattekill was established in 1800 from part of the Town of Marlborough.
Until European settlement of the area in the late 1600s and early 1700s, it was inhabited by the Esopus Indians. By the mid-1800s, the Town had become the center of the region’s prominent fruit growing – grapes, raspberries and currants. Its initial growth in agricultural was enhanced by the opening of the Hudson Connecting Railroad in 1887.
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