Corinth dates to 1775, and 26% of its homes were built before 1940
More historic than 83% of U.S. towns · #377 of 758 in New York. What drives it
Its Register listing is the International Paper Administration Building and Time Office. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1900 on, and the census since 1820.
Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1819.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Corinth’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Corinth is more historic than 83% of U.S. towns, #377 of 758 in New York. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Corinth’s overall grade.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Corinth’s 1.5 sits below most of its state (23% of New York towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
NoteThe founding year comes from Wikidata alone; no second source gives 1775.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B to A+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.7 points).
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Corinth’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Palmer Falls is an area of whitewater waterfalls formerly known as "Kah-che-bon-cook", "Hadley Falls", "The Great Falls of the Hudson", or "Palmer's Great Falls". The falls are now named after Beriah Palmer, who at one time owned land along both sides of the river by the falls.
Around 1763, after the French and Indian War, Ebenezer Jessup and his brother Edward from Luzerne began lumbering operations in the area. They floated rafts of logs down the Hudson and bypassed Palmer Falls by landing the rafts at a place called "Jessup's Landing", now the public beach of the Village of Corinth, where they loaded the logs onto wagons and carted them around the falls.
Passages that mention Corinth, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Saratoga County, New York1893 · page 566Read the page →
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Stephen Eggleston, who resided for many years at Luzerne, Warren county. On one occasion his cattle strayed into the present limits of the town of Corinth, and while looking for them he was so favorably impressed with the country here, though still a wilderness, that he left his cattle, and returning home built a raft and floated his family and
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History of Saratoga County, New York1893 · page 177Read the page →
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The town of Corinth was formed from the town of Hadley, April 20, 1818. A part of Moreau was annexed January 28, 1848. It lies upon the Hudson, in the northeast part 12 of the county. The Kayaderrossera mountain range occupies the central and north parts, and the Palmertown mountains the south-
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MOST of Cleanor’s fellow-passengers on board the Nereid — for this was the name of the singularly un-nymphlike trading vessel that carried him to Corinth — were a curious medley of races and occupations. Corinth was the mart of the western world, and was frequented, for business or for pleasure, by all its races. There were soothsayers from Egypt, who found their customers all the
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Corinth, 1775 to 1923
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
In 1775, according to Wikidata. Corinth’s post office opened in 1819, and the census of 1820 counted 1,490 people here.
How does Corinth rank for history?
Corinth is more historic than 83% of U.S. towns, #377 of 758 in New York. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Corinth?
One place: the International Paper Administration Building and Time Office (listed 2017).
How old are the homes in Corinth?
26% of Corinth’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.7 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1973.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (9), the Library of Congress (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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