Colesville, NY
Posted by: ripraff
N 42° 10.379 W 075° 37.649
18T E 448174 N 4669172
The townhall for Colesville is in Harpursville its largest hamlet.
Waymark Code: WMWFP2
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 08/29/2017
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The downhill is a newer brick building with white trim. The windows have white shutters. There are white double doors in front with two columns.
Colesville claims two Revolutionary soldiers as early settlers and developers. Robert Harpur has Harpursville named after him. Nathaniel Cole has the town named after him and a county park. "On the hilltop "where the sun shines in every direction", Nathaniel Cole, Sr. stopped his caravan of migrant New Englanders and said, "This is home"... Cole became the Postmaster and the area served was identified as Colesville...Only the foundation and the cemetery are evidence of what was once "Cambridge Settlement". . " (
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"The town was formed on April 3, 1821, from the Town of Windsor. Harpursville is the largest hamlet in the town although it is not incorporated.
Colesville derives its name from pioneer Nathaniel Cole, a revolutionary soldier. He settled here in 1795, on a hill south of Harpursville, known as Coles Hill. He built a tavern there which was in operation as early as 1800. It was the first tavern between Albany and Binghamton.
Broome County's Nathaniel Cole Park was opened in the town in 1974 and is located about two miles from the site of its namesake's tavern."