Milan, New York
| Milan, New York | |
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| Town | |
Wilcox Memorial Town Hall, Route 199, Milan
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 Location of Milan, New York |
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| Coordinates: 41°58′40″N 73°46′50″W / 41.97778°N 73.78056°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Dutchess |
| Government | |
| • Type | Town Council |
| • Town Supervisor | William F. Gallagher (R) |
| • Town Council |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 36.6 sq mi (94.7 km2) |
| • Land | 36.1 sq mi (93.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0.5 sq mi (1.2 km2) |
| Elevation | 548 ft (167 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,370 |
| • Density | 74/sq mi (28.4/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
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Four post offices:
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| Area code(s) | 845 |
| FIPS code | 36-47207 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0979218 |
| Website | www |
Four post offices:
Milan /ˈmaɪ.lən/ is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 2,370. The town is in the northern part of the county.
The area that comprises Milan today was the western part of the Little Nine Partners Patent of 1706. Milan was largely a farming and mill town and remains a very rural town today.
The first settler in the area was Johannes Rowe. The son of a Palatine immigrant, Rowe bought 911 acres (3.69 km2) from Robert Livingston and built a stone house in 1766 on what is now Rowe Road near the Milan Town Hall. The remains of the house were photographed in 1940 for the Historic American Buildings Survey.
The New York State Legislature voted on March 6, 1818, to create the town of Milan from the western part of the town of North East, to be effective "from and after the last day in March" 1818. The session laws stated that the first town meeting would be held the first Tuesday of April and at the home of Stephen Thorn, who was elected town supervisor along with John F. Bartlett, town clerk.
Two 19th century histories of the town of Milan and Dutchess County (1877 and 1882) state there is no knowledge or evidence as to why the name "Milan" was chosen.
But the name Milan had appeared in other areas of the state, and it was not unusual to take European city names at the time. What is now the city of Syracuse was known as "Milan" for a brief period between 1809 and 1812. A settlement 40 miles (64 km) south of Syracuse was originally called "Milan" in 1790 before incorporation in 1802 as the town of Locke. An unincorporated village there continued to be referred to as "Milan" but gave up its Milan Post Office designation on July 29, 1817, becoming "Locke" Post Office. This cleared the way for the operation of the Milan Post Office on August 14, 1818, at what is now Case's Corners.
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