Hurley (CDP), New York

Hurley, New York
CDP
The historic stone houses of Hurley
Location in Ulster County and the state of New York.
Coordinates: 41°55′15″N 74°3′16″W / 41.92083°N 74.05444°W / 41.92083; -74.05444Coordinates: 41°55′15″N 74°3′16″W / 41.92083°N 74.05444°W / 41.92083; -74.05444
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Ulster
Area
• Total	5.5 sq mi (14.3 km2)
• Land	5.5 sq mi (14.3 km2)
• Water	0.0 sq mi (0.1 km2)
Elevation	197 ft (60 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	3,458
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code	12443
Area code(s)	845
FIPS code	36-37132
GNIS feature ID	0953520

Hurley is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the Town of Hurley, Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 3,458 at the 2010 census.

Hurley is a community near the east town line of the Town of Hurley. Much of the hamlet is within the Hurley Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.

The first people known to have lived in the vicinity of the hamlet of Hurley were Esopus Indians, a northern branch of the Delaware. Dutch and Huguenot settlers moved there from Wiltwyck in the spring of 1662. It was given the Dutch name, Nieu Dorp, (new village). Dissatisfied with their treatment by the Dutch, the Delaware attacked the villages of Hurley and Kingston in June 1663 in what is called the Second Esopus War. The village of eight houses was destroyed and several women and children were taken as captives. It was a year before all the captives were returned to their families. Although the village was soon rebuilt some Huguenot settlers moved from Hurley to found New Paltz.

In September 1664 the Dutch colony of New Netherland Colony was taken over by the English. In 1669, Governor, Richard Lovelace renamed some of the Dutch settlements with English names. Nieu Dorp became Horley, (pronounce Hurley) after the Lovelace ancestral home in Horley, England. He also relocated the troublesome English garrison into Marbletown, greatly easing tensions in the area. Nonetheless, Hurley remained a Dutch provincial town in language, customs, and architecture, located along the Old Mine Road, which linked Dutch settlements in the Upper Delaware Valley with Kingston.

During the American Revolutionary War, British led by Generals John Burgoyne and Henry Clinton attempted to split the colonies in two by taking control of the Hudson River Valley. Burgoyne marched south from Canada while Clinton sailed north. On October 16, 1777, a British force under the command of General John Vaughan burned the village of Kingston, which was at that time New York's capital. Many people from Kingston fled to Hurley. With the burning of Kingston, the old stone Van Deusen House in neighboring Hurley served for a brief time as the state capital.