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Newburgh, New York real estate is located north of New York City, on the west bank of the Hudson River in the state’s scenic Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. Famous as the home of Gen. George Washington’s headquarters at the end of the Revolutionary War, Newburgh, New York real estate is the largest city in Orange County. A constant flow of new residents continues to move into Newburgh, New York existing homes or resale homes. Searching Newburgh, New York MLS resale listings is almost effortless on NewHomesRealEstate.net because we have volumes of comprehensive listings of Newburgh, New York existing homes for sale, from mansions to investment properties to condominiums to townhouses.

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Newburgh, New York Area Demographics

Newburgh, New York real estate is one of the three cities in Orange County and is home to 28,259 residents (2005 U.S. census estimate). Newburgh lies in the northeastern part of the county on the west bank of the Hudson River about five miles north of West Point.

At the northern reaches of the New York metropolitan area, Orange County sits in the state’s scenic Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. About 16,000 acres of eastern Orange County comprise the West Point Military Reservation, which includes the West Point Military Academy. Just south of West Point is Harriman State Park, which at nearly 73 square miles (about half of which extends east into Rockland County) is the second-largest state park in the state.

Orange County, New York real estate exists on the outer fringes of the New York metropolitan area, which includes 13 counties in New York, 13 in New Jersey, three in Connecticut and one in Pennsylvania and is home to nearly 22 million people.

Orange County, New York real estate enjoys a favorable location north of New York City, which is about 70 miles away. Orange County borders Rockland County, New York on the southeast, northeastern New Jersey on the south, northeastern Pennsylvania and the Delaware River on the southwest, the New York state counties of Sullivan and Ulster on the north and the Hudson River on the east, with Dutchess County and Putnam County across the Hudson. The highest point in Orange County is Schunemunk Mountain, at an elevation of 1,664 feet, just north of the county’s largest municipality, the Town of Monroe (population: 31,407), which lies in the southeastern part of the county, about 25 miles southwest of Newburgh. The Shawangunk Mountains run through the western part of Orange County. The Village of Goshen (population: 5,676), which is the Orange County seat, lies near the geographic center of the county, was settled in 1714, formally established in 1789 and incorporated in 1809.

Orange County, New York real estate includes three cities and 21 “towns,” which contain 18 villages, more than 30 hamlets and dozens of additional small unincorporated communities. In the state of New York, counties are subdivided into cities and towns. Everyone who does not live in a city or on an Indian reservation lives in a town. Villages and hamlets exist within towns. A village is an incorporated area which is usually, but not always, within a single town. A village is a clearly defined municipality that provides the services closest to the residents, such as garbage collection, street and highway maintenance, street lighting and building codes. Some villages provide their own police and other optional services. A hamlet is a populated area within a town that is not part of a village. The term “hamlet” is not defined under New York law (unlike cities, towns and villages), but is often used in the state’s statutes to refer to well-known populated sections of towns that are not incorporated as villages.

The three cities of Orange County, New York real estate are:

The 21 towns of Orange County, New York real estate are:

Temperatures at Newburgh vary from an average high of 85 degrees and average low of 64 in July to an average high of 36 and low of 17 in January, with extremes of 105 in 1966 and -20 in 1961. Annual precipitation averages about 45.8 inches.

Newburgh, New York History and Culture

Newburgh, New York real estate and Orange County have an interesting history dating back more than three centuries. Orange County was one of the first 12 counties established by the Province of New York in 1683. Its boundaries at that time included present-day Rockland County, which split from Orange County in 1798.

The first public buildings on Orange County, New York real estate were erected in Orangetown in 1703. The first courthouse was built in Goshen in 1740 and replaced in 1773. Goshen had been settled in 1714 and was incorporated in 1809.

Newburgh, the largest city and second-largest municipality in Orange County (after the Town of Monroe), was for a long time the largest industrial place between New York City (about 60 miles south) and the state capital of Albany (about 90 miles north). Newburgh’s location on the high west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles north of West Point, offers magnificent views from almost any part of the city, which early attracted settlers, who developed the city as a commercial center of a great timber and farm region and the main shipping point for their lumber and produce.

The area that became Newburgh was first explored by Europeans when Henry Hudson stopped by during his 1609 expedition up the river that now bears his name. Local legend has it that he called the site “a pleasant place to build a town,” although some later historians believe he may actually have been referring to the area where Cornwall-on-Hudson (a few miles south) now stands. The first settlement was made a century later, in 1709 by German Lutherans, who named it the Palatine Parish. By 1750, most of the Germans had been replaced by people of English, Dutch and Scottish descent, who in 1752 changed the name to the Parish of Newburgh (named after Newburgh, Scotland). Newburgh was the site of Gen. George Washington’s headquarters for more than one year at the end of the Revolutionary War, in 1782-83. It was in Newburgh that Washington received the famous Newburgh letter proposing that he become king, an idea he vigorously rejected.

Newburgh was incorporated as a village in 1800 and chartered as a city in 1865. When first settled, Newburgh was part of Ulster County and was that county’s seat. When Rockland County was split from Orange County in 1798, Newburgh and the other towns north of Moodna Creek were put in a redrawn Orange County. Newburgh thus lost its status as the county seat to Goshen. The former Ulster County courthouse still stands as Newburgh’s old city courthouse building (currently used as municipal office space).

Newburgh became quite prosperous during the Gilded Age (1865-1901) that followed. Newburgh’s industries included manufacturers of: cottons, woolens, silks, paper, felt hats, baking powder, soap, paper boxes, brick, plush goods, steam boilers, tools, automobiles, silver coin, bleach, candles, waterway gates, ice machines, pumps, movie screens, overalls, perfumes, furniture, carpets, carburetors, spiral springs, spiral pipe, shirt waists, shirts, felt goods and lawn mowers. Other industries included a thriving whaling industry in the early 1800s, which turned to shipbuilding in the second half of the 19th century, as well as: shipyards, foundries, machine shops, plaster works, tanneries and leatherette works.

In the 20th century, Newburgh became the home to the first Edison power plant, making it the first American city to be electrified and have street lights. In 1915, Newburg became one of the first American cities to delegate routine governmental authority to a city manager. Portions of Liberty Street are still paved in the original brick. Broadway, one of the widest main streets in a U.S. city, runs through Newburgh from east to west. Newburgh was also one of the first two cities in the country to fluoridate its water. Newburgh’s waterfront was redeveloped in the late 1990s. After racial strife in the latter part of the 20th century, Newburgh is now more racially diverse than it used to be, as a growing Latin immigrant population complements the city’s sizable African American contingent.

Newburgh’s preservation history can be traced all the way back to 1850 when Washington’s Newburgh headquarters was designated a state historic site, the first in the country. Newburgh’s Historical Society was founded in 1884. It purchased the 1834 Capt. David Crawford house, its museum, in 1958, saving it from demolition. A local movement to stop urban renewal led to the development of the Newburgh Historic District, now the second-largest in the state of New York. While the city’s historic architecture has attracted a stable core of preservation-minded community activists willing to spend the time and money renovating houses, much work remains to be done, as many properties within the historic district have fallen into disrepair.

Goshen (“the promised land”) was first known by the name in 1714, was established in 1788 and incorporated in 1809. Goshen included a part of Hamtonburgh until 1830 and Chester until 1845. Goshen was the site of the hanging of infamous outlaw Claudius Smith, a British Loyalist who — along with the Mohawk Indian Chief Joseph Brandt — raided the countryside surrounding Goshen during the Revolutionary War. Smith was hanged in early 1779, and later that year, Brandt, who was also a British colonel, raided what is now Port Jervis. A militia from Goshen set out to stop Brandt, engaging in the Battle of Minisink, but they endured heavy casualties. Noah Webster (1758-1843) taught at Goshen in the 1780s and went on to publish his essential “blue-backed” speller and dictionary. The local high school’s library is named after him, as is Webster Street, where the Town of Goshen’s offices are located.

Middletown, incorporated in 1888, was first settled in the 1740s and later grew up around the railroads, especially the Erie line.

Port Jervis, named in honor of John Jervis, superintendent of the Delaware and Hudson canal in the 1820s, was formerly known as “Peenpack” and first established about 1690 and raided and burned before the Battle of Minisink in 1779. It was renamed Port Jervis in the mid-19th century, an Erie Railroad depot was built there in 1892 and it became a city in 1907. Port Jervis does suffer from flooding of the Delaware River, most recently in 2005.

The dairy industry dominated the other small towns, villages and hamlets of Orange County for more than a century into the early 1900s. Fruit and vegetable production have fallen off in the past century, but have not disappeared altogether.

Newburgh, New York Attractions, Activities and Amenities

Newburgh, New York real estate and surrounding Orange County offer a wide range of things to do and places to see for both residents and visitors. Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters at Newburgh; the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; the Brotherhood Winery, America’s oldest winery, at Washingtonville; and the Velveeta Cheese factory, at Monroe, are examples of some of the unique places in Orange County. The county is also known as the birthplace (at Florida, New York in the Town of Goshen) of William Seward (1801-72), a U.S. senator and U.S. Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, who in 1867 negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia; as well as the home of Orange County Choppers, a custom motorcycle shop featured on the Discovery Channel television series “American Chopper.” Moonlight skiing, Civil War reenactments, festivals, a Renaissance Faire and natural wonders make Newburgh and Orange County, New York an exciting and pleasant place to live or visit.

Most residents of Orange County have made a conscious choice to withdraw from a city lifestyle, although some people commute to New York City for work either by car or train.

Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, at Newburgh, consists of the Hasbrouck House, the last and longest-serving headquarters of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, and two other structures. It is also the oldest house in the city of Newburgh and the first property acquired and preserved by any U.S. state for historic reasons.

The West Point Military Academy, established in 1802, includes the fascinating West Point Museum that contains what is considered to be the oldest and most diversified public collection of military items in the U.S. Five chapels and a cemetery on the grounds provoke reflection. The 280-acre Constitution Island is part of West Point and famous for the “Great Chain” that was placed across the Hudson River during the Revolutionary War and the Warner family who lived on the Island during the 19th century. Visitors can tour the Warner House, ruins of the Revolutionary War fortifications and the island’s hiking trails.

Rich in parkland with about 86,000 acres of public spaces, Orange County, New York real estate includes about half of the 46,613-acre Harriman State Park at its southeastern edge, sharing the park with Rockland County. Harriman State Park is the second-largest state park in the state of New York and is a haven for hikers, with more than 200 miles of hiking trails, including a section of the Appalachian Trail. The park is also known for its 31 lakes, multiple streams, public camping areas and great vistas. In addition to the hiking trails, there are a number of horse trails in the southeastern portion of the park and a mountain bike trail at the Anthony Wayne Recreation Area in the northeastern area of the park. In winter, some of the trails are open for cross-country skiing. On the northeastern edge, Harriman State Park borders the smaller Bear Mountain State Park.

Most of the 88 miles in New York state of the 2,174-mile Appalachian Trail that passes from Georgia to Maine lie within Orange County, beginning at the New Jersey border near Warwick and passing through Harriman State Park and Bear Mountain State Park just south of West Point, across the Hudson River and continuing into Connecticut. The section of the trail that passes through Harriman and Bear Mountain state parks is the oldest section of the trail, completed in 1923.

Other state parks in Orange County include: Highland Lakes State Park, northeast of Middletown, consisting of about 3,000 acres, with fishing, hiking, horseback riding and model plane flying; Goose Pond Mountain State Park, west of Monroe and south of Chester, consisting of a little more than 1,500 acres, with hiking and bridle paths; and Storm King State Park, just south of Newburgh and north of West Point, consisting of about 1,900 acres and popular with hikers and hunters, it is one of the Hudson Valley’s best-known landmarks and is the northern gateway to the Hudson Highlands.

The largest sculpture park in the country, the 500-acre Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, is both a museum and a nature conservancy. Its collection of more than 120 large modern sculptures are housed outdoors where they are surrounded by fields, walls, trees and hills. The surrounding mountains and valleys provide a backdrop for large-scale abstract sculptures by Calder, Nevelson, Di Suvero and others.

The Shawangunk Mountains, also known as “The Gunks,” is a ridge of mountains in western Orange County that extend into Sullivan and Ulster counties and stretch all the way from northern New Jersey to the Catskill Mountains. Sparsely populated, the Shawangunk have become popular for outdoor recreation, especially as one of the major rock climbing areas in the U.S. Several waterfalls and four major cliffs: Millbrook, the Near Trapps, The Trapps, and Skytop, entice hikers and climbers alike.

Schunemunk Mountain is the highest mountain in Orange County, with an elevation of 1,664 feet. The summit is located in the Town of Blooming Grove, with other portions in Cornwall and Woodbury. The community of Mountain Lodge Park is built on its western slope.

Gomez Mill House, built about 1714 at Marlboro, is the oldest surviving Jewish residence in the U.S.

Orange County is the source of the first complete mastodon skeleton ever assembled and more have been uncovered in the county than anywhere else in the northeast.

In 1835, John Jacques planted his first grapes and was ready to bottle his first vintage in 1839. The small establishment became known as Brotherhood Winery and holds the distinction of being America’s oldest continuously operating winery.

The Monroe Cheese Festival, held each September, celebrates an Orange County industry that dates to the 1870s.

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