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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Westtown, New York
- ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ↑ Eager, Samuel Watkins (1846). An Outline History of Orange County: Together with Local Tradition and Short Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers, Etc. T. E. Henderson. p. 417.
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