Marathon, NY
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N 42° 26.417 W 076° 02.495
18T E 414335 N 4699187
Marathon is a town in Cortland, New York.
Waymark Code: WMY58C
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2018
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The town hall is new, white with a blue-green metal roof. The town court shares the building. There is a handicap ramp to the main entrance. There are notices posted by the door. There are several windows.
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"The population was 1,967 at the 2010 census. The town of Marathon contains a village also named Marathon."
Marathon was settled after the American Revolution. It was part of the Central New York Military Tract. Land was given to soldiers. Thurlow Weed is a well known citizen, he was a political boss and publisher. US Routes 11 and 81 go through Marathon. The Central New York Maple Festival is celebrated in Marathon in Early April..
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"It lies upon the southern border of the County, east of the center. It has a rugged and hilly surface, the ridges rising from 500 to 700 feet above the valleys. The Tioughnioga flows through the western part, in a deep, narrow valley, bordered by precipitous hillsides...The first settlement of this town was commenced in 1794, by Dr. Japheth Hunt and his wife arid two sons, James and William, and three daughters. They entered the Tioughnioga Valley from the south, in canoes, and located on lot 93, about a mile south of the present village of Marathon...The First Presbyterian Church was organized February 11, 1814, with ten members...Marathon Baptist Church was organized October 20, 1860, with twenty-five members;..The Methodist Church was organized by the formation of a class consisting of four members, in 1830; "