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Amenia NY Real Estate, homes, land for sale includes Amenia Union, Leedsville, Sharon Station, Smithfield, South Amenia, and Wassaic. According to the U. S. Census for 2010, the town has a total area of 43.6 square miles and a population of 4,436 people. The median income for a household in the town was $58,000. The per capita income for the town was $22,095.

Amenia NY History

Before colonization by the Europeans, the hillsides around today’s Amenia and Wassaic were almost treeless. The native Americans had burned the forests so that they could hunt the deer. During the 1700s many settlers came to these valleys and started farming.

The name AMENIA means “a pleasant place.” This name was coined by Dr. Thomas Young in 1762, when the Amenia Precinct was formed. Certainly, the picturesque views from DeLaVergne Hill and from Depot Hill Road confirm the appropriateness of the name, as do the pastoral scenes throughout the town.

Dr. Thomas Young arrived in Amenia around 1755 and married Mary Winegar, daughter of Capt. Garrett Winegar, of Amenia and Sharon, near Amenia Union. Dr. Young was not only a physician. He was a poet, known for his epic poem, “The Conquest of Quebec,” a writer of political pamphlets, and a Latin scholar, who also gave the State of Vermont its name. Young was an ardent patriot and a friend of the irreverent patriot, Ethan Allen of Salisbury, Connecticut.

Amenia NY Real Estate Today

The original hamlet of Amenia, with its 1758 Red Meeting House and Old Burying Ground, was located a mile north of today’s Amenia. The present village, once known as Payne’s Corners, and later as Ameniaville, was established at the crossroads of the Dutchess Turnpike and the old Albany Post Road in the early 1800’s. The advent of the Amenia Seminary in 1835 and the railroad in 1851 contributed to the development of the town. Four churches, two hotels, a theater, The Amenia Times newspaper, established in 1852, and the influx of Irish immigrants all attest to Amenia’s growth in the 19^th century.

After the Harlem Valley Railroad was opened in 1850, dairy farming grew rapidly. Wassaic had not only an active iron furnace, but also a condensed milk factory. Gail Borden’s condensed milk factory, established in 1859, made Wassaic the center of the dairy industry in Amenia for at least 60 years.

The main thoroughfare of Amenia is New York State Route 22. State Route 22 runs through every town on the east side of Dutchess County. U.S. Route 44 also passes through Amenia, intersecting Route 22 within the hamlet of Amenia. Metro-North Railroad has two rail commuter rail stations in Amenia, with service to New York City via the Harlem Line. The Tenmile River station is off Sinpatch Road east of Route 22, and the Wassaic station is 2 miles (3 km) north of Tenmile River. Trains leave every two hours during midday, evenings and weekends. In rush hour, peak-direction trains leave about every 30 minutes. There is no train service into or out of Amenia after midnight.