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The Village of Cornwall on Hudson
New York (NY)
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Cornwall-on-Hudson is a riverfront village in Orange County, New York. The village was founded in 1609 by famed explorer Henry Hudson. |
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Real Estate in Cornwall on Hudson, NY:
The Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson lies on the west bank of the Hudson River about 50 miles north of New York City and 5 miles north of the United States Military Academy at West Point, near the eastern border of the county. The village is within the northeast corner of the Town of Cornwall.
The village was part of the Governor Dongan tract of 1685. Cornwall-on-Hudson set itself off from the Town of Cornwall in 1885 by incorporating as a village.
People of note, past and present in Cornwall-on-Hudson
- Djuna Barnes, (1892 -1982) writer in Greenwich Village and Paris.
- David Petraeus, (born 1952), U.S. Army general, was born and raised in Cornwall-on-Hudson.
- Edward Payson Roe, (1838 -1888) lived in the village while writing novels and botanical books.
- Nathaniel Parker Willis, (1806 - 1867) writer, editor, and poet
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