Monroe, New York
Monroe town hall, on left next to village hall Location in Orange County and the state of New York.
Monroe is a town in Orange County, New York, United States.
The town is titled after President James Monroe.
As white pioneer started to move north the Lenni-Lenape country was forced to move west, out of New York and New Jersey and into Pennsylvania, and later on into central North America, under the Treaty of Easton.
"Cheesecocks as a precinct encompassed all of present day Monroe, Woodbury, Tuxedo, and Stony Point (Monroe New York).
It was unknown to the British patrolling the Hudson, and gave Washington his escape route from New York to his New Windsor headquarters.
In 1889, a final division of the town resulted in a loss of territory to the Towns of Woodbury and Tuxedo.
In 1894, the improve of Monroe set itself apart from the town by incorporating as a village.
On the evening of March 17, 1895 the Village of Monroe had one of the most disastrous fires in its history, in which the center of the Village was nearly wiped out.
In the early 1900s the Monroe Race Track was established to "increase the suburbs popularity as both small-town inhabitants and visitors flocked to the track to watch the horse competitions and place bets on the trotters".
The first race was held on August 8, 1908 there was 22,000 citizens estimated at the race. The track became a part of the Orange County Harness Racing Circuit which encompassed Endicott, Middletown, Goshen, and Monroe.
At this time this was also a world record for a pacer". In 1927 Monroe was dropped by the circuit and was replaced by Elmira, New York which had just instead of assembly of a new 5,000 seat grandstand. The last purse offered at Monroe Track in 1927 was for $31,000.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 21.3 square miles (55.1 km ), of which, 20.1 square miles (52.0 km ) of it is territory and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km ) of it (5.55%) is water.
The town is positioned in the Southern Region of the county, bordered on the northwest by the Town of Chester, on the north by the Town of Blooming Grove, on the east by the Town of Woodbury, on the south by the Town of Tuxedo, and on the southwest by the Town of Warwick.
Mombasha Lake A lake by the south town line.
Round Lake A lake in the part of Monroe, southwest of Monroe village.
Walton Lake A lake in the part of Monroe, south of Round Lake.
Communities inside the Town of Monroe.
Kiryas Joel The Village of Kiryas Joel is north of the Village of Monroe, by NY-17.
Marycrest improve bordering the south part of Monroe village.
Monroe The Village of Monroe is positioned south of NY-17 on highway NY-17 - M.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 94.91% White, 1.22% Black or African American, 0.25% Native American, 1.36% Asian, 1.15% from other competitions, and 1.10% from two or more competitions.
The Village of Monroe, pg13 a b Armstrong, Harry, Monroe New York: Bicentennial Showcase 1775 1976, Monroe: 1976.
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