Cold Spring, New York
| Cold Spring, New York | |
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Cold Spring's Main Street, part of the federally recognized historic district in the village
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 Location in Putnam County and the state of New York. |
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| Coordinates: 41°25′8″N 73°57′16″W / 41.41889°N 73.95444°WCoordinates: 41°25′8″N 73°57′16″W / 41.41889°N 73.95444°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Putnam |
| Incorporated | 1846 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.60 sq mi (1.55 km2) |
| • Land | 0.59 sq mi (1.54 km2) |
| • Water | 0.004 sq mi (0.01 km2) 0.91% |
| Elevation | 108 ft (33 m) |
| Population (2010 Census) | |
| • Total | 1,983 |
| • Density | 3,300/sq mi (1,300/km2) |
| Area code(s) | 845 |
| FIPS code | 36-16936 |
| Website | coldspringny |
Cold Spring is a village in the town of Philipstown in Putnam County, New York, United States. The population was 1,983 at the 2010 census. It borders the smaller village of Nelsonville and Garrison. The central area of the village is on the National Register of Historic Places as the Cold Spring Historic District due to its many well-preserved 19th-century buildings, constructed to accommodate workers at the nearby West Point Foundry (itself a Registered Historic Place today). The town is the birthplace of General Gouverneur K. Warren, who was an important figure in the Union Army during the Civil War. The village, located in the Hudson Highlands, sits at the deepest point of the Hudson River, directly across from West Point. Cold Spring serves as a weekend getaway for many residents of New York City.
Commuter service to New York City is available via the Cold Spring train station, served by Metro-North Railroad. The train journey is about an hour and ten minutes to Grand Central Terminal.
The site of present-day Cold Spring was part of the lands belonging to Adolphus Philipse. The first settler of Cold Spring was Thomas Davenport in 1730. In 1772 a highway master was chosen for the road from Cold Spring to the Post Road from New York to Albany. A small trading hamlet grew alongside the river by the early 1800s. A couple of sloops made regular weekly trips from Cold Spring to New York, carrying wood and some country produce, which came over this model road from the east. Those trips by sloop usually took a week.
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