McGrawville, New York

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McGrawville, New York
Hamlet
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McGrawville
Coordinates: 42°20′57″N78°13′39″W / 42.34917°N 78.22750°W / 42.34917; -78.22750
Country United States
State New York
County Allegany
Towns New Hudson, Rushford
Elevation
1,562 ft (476 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code 585
GNIS feature ID972780 [1]

McGrawville (also New Hudson) is a former hamlet on the border of the towns of New Hudson and Rushford, in Allegany County, New York, United States. [1]

History

The hamlet was named for one Mr. McGraw, a local landowner. [2] According to a local historian, the settlement grew as a village around a saw mill, and at one time included "a store, cheese factory, blacksmith shop, and ten or twelve dwellings" including tenement houses for workers on a stockraising farm, and a boarding house. It was the location of a U.S. Post Office for more than 50 years, from 1849 through about 1900. [3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "McGrawville, New York". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p.  194.
  3. ↑ Neva Gross, New Hudson Town Historian. "McGrawville". Rootsweb.


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