McGrawville, New York

McGrawville, New York
Hamlet
McGrawville is located in New York
McGrawville
McGrawville
Location within New York
McGrawville is located in the United States
McGrawville
McGrawville
Location within the United States
Coordinates: 42°20′57″N 78°13′39″W / 42.34917°N 78.22750°W / 42.34917; -78.22750
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountyAllegany
TownsNew Hudson, Rushford
Elevation
1,562 ft (476 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code585
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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