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One hundred seventy-five years since the railroad named a village. July 11-19, 2026 — Millerton, New York celebrates.
July 11-19
A week of festivities across the village marking 175 years of Millerton.
All week
The heart of the celebration — check the official village schedule for daily hours.
July 17
An evening drone spectacular over the celebration.
Parade day
Descendants of the founding generation — including the family of village druggist Levi P. Hatch — walk the route, per family accounts.
Dates from public celebration coverage; confirm times with the village's official schedule. See also our Events calendar.
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2026 — 175 years
Millerton celebrates its 175th anniversary July 11-19, with the fair at Eddie Collins Memorial Park, a drone show July 17 — and descendants of the founding generation in the parade.
On Route 22 just outside Millerton, Irondale Cemetery holds some 2,800 graves — stones older than the village itself, and the families who worked the Harlem Valley's iron.
Nine hundred residents, one walkable Main Street, a rail trail and a weekly paper — the case for Millerton, 175 years young.
When Millerton celebrates its 175th this July, Patrick Doughty and Diane Price plan to be there — carrying the family story of village druggist Levi P. Hatch.
From a farmhouse naming meeting in 1851 to a drone light show in 2026 — the dates that made Millerton, gathered in one place.
The tracks that built Millerton fell silent in 1980. Sixteen years later, the old rail bed reopened as one of New York's most scenic rail trails.
From railroad hotels and a clock tower to Oblong Books and the Oakhurst Diner, Millerton's Main Street has been reinventing itself since 1851.
Just outside the village, the Millerton Iron Company turned local ore into railroad car wheels, employing 150 workers with its own store, mill and post office.
In the 1800s a drugstore was doctor's counter, general store and gathering place at once. Millerton's was kept by Levi P. Hatch, druggist — verified in the 1882 county history.
A farmhouse meeting in 1851, a hotel built in 1852, and the families whose names still mark the map — plus a family account of a druggist named Levi P. Hatch.
The New York & Harlem Railroad reached the Harlem Valley in 1851 and conjured a village out of farmland. Within a generation, four rail lines touched Millerton.
In 1851 there were no houses where Millerton now stands. Then the railroad arrived, neighbors met at a farmhouse to pick a name, and a village was born.
As Millerton celebrates its 175th anniversary, descendants of founding druggist Levi P. Hatch will be on hand for the parade.
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