Walden, New York

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Local Information for Montgomery, NY

Latitude: 41.561268 -- Longitude: -74.189442

Other Area Cities:   Wappingers Falls  Walden  Fishkill  Beacon  Cornwall on Hudson  East Fishkill 

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Walden is a village located in the Town of Montgomery in Orange County, New York. The population was 6,164 at the 2000 census. The area around present-day Walden was purchased in 1736 by Alexander Kidd, and settlers of Scots-Irish, English and German descent started arriving not long afterwards. It was the first settlement west of the Wallkill River, known at the time as Kidd's Town. In the 1820s, a successful New York shipper named Jacob Walden convinced some of his business partners to finance the construction of woolen mills on the river, attracted by the Great Falls as a source of power and the railroad connections at nearby Maybrook. He dammed the Wallkill above the falls, creating a power station that remains in use today, and his mill was a success. Other wool-makers followed as the Industrial Revolution picked up steam and the growing population center became known instead as Walden's Mills. -- Source: Wikipedia.com