Talcottville, New York
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Talcottville is a small community is southern Lewis County
. It is also the seat for the Town of Leyden. Talcottville is considered a hamlet and has always been considered that.
Talcottville has many interesting historical facts about it. It was the first settlement in Lewis county and its cemetery has the interred remains for that family. William Topping and his family settled in 1793 on what is now the northwest corner of State Rte. 12d and Domser Rd.
Active businesses in the hamlet include: Talcottville Cemetery Association, A division of Lewis County Monuments, Creekside Builders, Fox Crafts, and portions of three active dairy farms.
The author and critic Edmund Wilson
was a summer resident, and wrote "Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern (sic) New York" (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971; reprint, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990), a memoir of his time in Talcottville.
Lewis County, New York
As of the census of 2000, there were 26,944 people, 10,040 households, and 7,309 families residing in the county. The population density was 21 people per square mile . There were 15,134 housing units at an average density of 12 per square mile...
. It is also the seat for the Town of Leyden. Talcottville is considered a hamlet and has always been considered that.
Talcottville has many interesting historical facts about it. It was the first settlement in Lewis county and its cemetery has the interred remains for that family. William Topping and his family settled in 1793 on what is now the northwest corner of State Rte. 12d and Domser Rd.
Active businesses in the hamlet include: Talcottville Cemetery Association, A division of Lewis County Monuments, Creekside Builders, Fox Crafts, and portions of three active dairy farms.
The author and critic Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson was an American writer and literary and social critic and noted man of letters.-Early life:Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father, Edmund Wilson, Sr., was a lawyer and served as New Jersey Attorney General. Wilson attended The Hill School, a college preparatory...
was a summer resident, and wrote "Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern (sic) New York" (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971; reprint, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990), a memoir of his time in Talcottville.