Painted Post, New York Painted Post A monument to the Seneca Indians in Painted Post A monument to the Seneca Indians in Painted Post Painted Post is positioned in New York Painted Post - Painted Post Location inside the state of New York Painted Post is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States.
The name comes from a painted and carved post found by explorers at the junction of three small-town rivers. Corning-Painted Post Airport (7 - N1) is west of the village.
According to village records, Painted Post was established as a village in 1803.
The Erwin brothers are considered the first wealthy European descended pioneer to have settled in the Painted Post region in the late 18th century (Painted Post village is in the town of Erwin, titled for the brothers and incorporated in 1796).
There are maps in existence dated 1796 which include Painted Post.
The name is derived from an historic, although probably unpainted, wooden post seen in the region at the end of the 18th century.
"His comrades buried him by the riverside, and planted above his grave a post on which were painted various symbols and rude devices.
This monument was known throughout the Genesee Forests as 'The Painted Post.' This account of the origin of the Painted Post was given to Benj.
Harper, of Harpersfield, the well known officer of the frontier militia of New York in the Revolution, informed Judge Knox, of Knoxville, in this co., that the Painted Post was erected over the grave of a chief who was wounded at the battle of the "Hog-Back" and brought in a canoe to the head of the Chemung, where he died.
The post stood for many years after the settlement of the co.; and the story goes that it rotted down at the butt, and was preserved in the bar-room of a tavern till about the year 1810 and then mysteriously disappeared.
The Chemung, Tioga, and Cohocton rivers all overflowed their banks, leaving widespread areas of Painted Post as well as Corning, Big Flats, and Elmira under water and destroying many bridges.
Painted Post is featured in the Stephen Vincent Benet poem "American Names." The First Baptist Church of Painted Post, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Station, and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Painted Post postal service contains a mural, Recording the Victory, painted by muralist Amy Jones in 1939.
Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.
Willard Nelson Clute, a noted botanist, was born in Painted Post Painted Post is positioned at 42 9 40 N 77 5 29 W (42.161188, -77.091315). Painted Post is west of the town/city of Corning, New York.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), of which, 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (4.51%) is water.
New York State Route 415 passes through the village which also borders the Southern Tier Expressway and the Cohocton River.
Interstate 86 also passes through Painted Post, and continues on until Jamestown, New York.
A Victorian-era home on the corner of Water and Charles Streets in Painted Post In the village, the populace was spread out with 23.9% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 21.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Corning-Painted Post School District (includes the City of Corning, the Village of Painted Post and encircling towns) presently has one early education center, six enhance elementary schools, a enhance middle school, and enhance high school positioned in the greater Corning area. In 2010 a popular vote was passed that will reconfigure the school district's secondary schools; both middle schools will combine and move into the current West High School building while both of the high schools combine and move into the current East High School.
Corning Painted Post Middle School Corning Painted Post High School History of the Corning-Painted Post area: 200 years in Painted Post country.
Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State.
Corning-Painted Post Area School District.
Flood of '72 & Old Painted Post Photos Village of Painted Post, NY "The Story of Painted Post: A Humble Monument of the Old Indian Wars" (PDF).
Municipalities and communities of Steuben County, New York, United States Addison Almond Arkport Avoca Bath Canisteo Cohocton Hammondsport North Hornell Painted Post Riverside Savona South Corning Wayland
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Villages in New York - Populated places established in 1823 - Villages in Steuben County, New York - 1823 establishments in New York
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