Grahamsville Historic District
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Grahamsville Historic District
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Grahamsville Reformed Church
buildings and cemetery, 2007 |
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| Location | Grahamsville, NY |
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| Nearest city | Middletown |
| Coordinates | 41°50′49″N 74°32′20″W / 41.84694°N 74.53889°WCoordinates: 41°50′49″N 74°32′20″W / 41.84694°N 74.53889°W |
| Area | 20 acres (8 ha) |
| Built | 19th century |
| Architectural style | Italianate, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 79001634 |
| Added to NRHP | December 6, 1979 |
The Grahamsville Historic District is a historic district located along both sides of NY 55 just east of that hamlet in the Town of Neversink in Sullivan County, New York, United States. Its church is across the road from Tri-Valley Central School. In 1979 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Five buildings are located on its 20 acres (8 ha). The centerpiece of the district is the Grahamsville Reformed Church, which dates originally to the 1840s. In 1874 it was expanded and a cemetery was added. An 1847 boarding house, also within the district, now serves as a gallery for a local artist.
The area of today's Grahamsville had initially been settled during the colonial era, but raids by Loyalists and their Indian allies killed or drove them away during the Revolution. So, after independence, the landowners of the Hardenbergh Patent invited tenants to settle in the area, named after an officer who led a unit massacred in the area, once again.
The first known house in Grahamsville dates to 1788. The minimal farming opportunities in the region were supplemented by lumber, which the Catskills had in abundance, and soon that business picked up. In 1813 the town of Neversink raised taxes to build a road (now Route 55) from the Neversink River (now dammed to create Neversink Reservoir) to more-established routes at Wawarsing in Ulster County, to the east. The Marenius Dayton House, an impressive Greek Revival building in the district, was an inn and official stagecoach stop during this era
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