McGrawville, New York

McGrawville (also New Hudson) is a former hamlet in the town of New Hudson, Allegany County, New York, United States.[1] 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. "McGrawville, New York". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  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.

Coordinates: 42°20′57″N 78°13′39″W / 42.34917°N 78.22750°W / 42.34917; -78.22750

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