Caledonia (Village, New York)
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Location in New York
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1891 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | new York | ||
| County : | Livingston County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 58 ′ N , 77 ° 51 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 2,105 (as of: 2018) | ||
| Population density : | 421 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 5 km 2 (about 2 mi 2 ) of which 5 km 2 (about 2 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Postal code : | 14423 | ||
| FIPS : | 36-11704 | ||
Caledonia is a village and census-designated place in Livingston County in the US state of New York in the United States of America . The village is the nucleus of the same Town Caledonia .
geography
Caledonia is in a during the last cold ( Wisconsin Glaciation by) glacial shaped landscape. The local area is therefore largely flat; the soil is often loamy over limestone deposits .
history
| Population development | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1840 | 450 | - | |
| 1850 | 500 | 11.1% | |
| 1860 | 623 | 24.6% | |
| 1870 | 597 | -4.2% | |
| 1900 | 1073 | - | |
| 1910 | 1290 | 20.2% | |
| 1920 | 1170 | -9.3% | |
| 1930 | 1487 | 27.1% | |
| 1940 | 1226 | -17.6% | |
| 1950 | 1683 | 37.3% | |
| 1960 | 1917 | 13.9% | |
| 1970 | 2327 | 21.4% | |
| 1980 | 2188 | -6% | |
| 1990 | 2262 | 3.4% | |
| 2000 | 2327 | 2.9% | |
| 2010 | 2201 | -5.4% | |
| 2018 estimate | 2105 | -4.4% | |
At the beginning of the 18th century, what is now Livingston County was part of the (hunting) area of the Seneca . After the American Revolution , it was opened up by European settlers. Around 1785, a first settlement was established east of the Genesee River in what is now the Town of Avon . From around 1797 there was also a settlement west of the river from which the present-day village of Caledonia emerged.
Administratively, the place was then part of the town of Northampton (now Gates ). The formal establishment of the Town of Caledonia as a spin-off of the Town of Northampton took place on March 30, 1802, initially under the name Southampton . The change to the existing name Caledonia took place on April 15, 1806. The first church ( Presbyterian ) was consecrated in 1805; a first school was also opened in the first decade of the 19th century.
Within the town of Caledonia, the capital of the same name was elevated to a village in 1891 .
Infrastructure
traffic
The New York State Route 5 leads as a national main street in east-west direction through the urban area, New York State Route 36 in the north-south direction.
Rail freight is offered by the Rochester and Southern Railroad .
education
In Caledonia there is the high school Caledonia-Mumford Central School , whose school district also includes Mumford in the neighboring town of Wheatland.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Elizabeth Martha Olmsted (1825–1910), poet
- Angus Cameron (1826–1897), US Senate politician
- Norman H. Meldrum (1841–1920), Lieutenant Governor of the State of Colorado
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Caledonia town, Livingston County, New York. In: 2018 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. United States Census Bureau , 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
- ^ A b John Homer French: Gazetteer of the State of New York: Embracing a Comprehensive View of the Geography, Geology, and General History of the State, and a Complete History and Description of Every County, City, Town, Village and Locality . R. Pearsall Smith, 1860, p. 383 (English).
- ^ Laws of the State of New York: Passed at the Session of the Legislature . New York State Legislature, 1806, pp. 433-434 (English): “From and after the fifteenth day of April (1806), the town of Southampton (...) shall be called by the name of Caledonia”
- ^ A b Peter Eisenstadt, Laura-Eve Moss, Carole F. Huxley: Encyclopedia of New York State . Syracuse University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8156-0808-0 , pp. 248; 258; 915 (English).