Coxsackie’s post office opened in 1805, and 22% of its homes were built before 1940
More historic than 87% of U.S. towns · #310 of 758 in New York. What drives it
5 places in town are on the National Register, among them the Pieter Bronck House, a National Historic Landmark, and a historic district with 30 buildings. Below: 18 old photos and papers, maps from 1886 on, and the census since 1820.
The Coxsackie post office opened in 1805, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Result (1890), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 2,355 in 18202020 census: 8,382221 years
How historic is Coxsackie?
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More historic than 87% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Coxsackie post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Coxsackie’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Coxsackie is more historic than 87% of U.S. towns, #310 of 758 in New York. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Coxsackie’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 Coxsackie’s 45.0 sits above most of its state (67% of New York towns have fewer) while its 35 historic buildings outnumber those of 83% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would still be A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.1 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (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 Coxsackie’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Coxsackie. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1893Coxsackie sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Coxsackie.
Every building
Coxsackie, building by building, 1886–1920
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.
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.
The settlement of Coxsackie began in the seventeenth century, in approximately 1652, as part of the development of New Netherland. The government of the area became established as a district in 1772, and Coxsackie was founded in 1788 with a town form of government. Part of Coxsackie was lost when the town of Durham was formed in 1790. Further land was lost in the formation of the newer towns of Cairo and Greenville (1803), New Baltimore (1811), and Athens (1815).
The Coxsackie High school is a splendid institution with a large and commodious building, and a teaching corps that is second only to Catskill in point of numbers. The first schools were established in the town just prior to 1800, Anthony Rogers teaching the school at Coxsackie village. The Rev. Henry Ostrander is also said to have been a teacher in 1801 to 1810.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Durham Dui'ham formed a part of Albany county, district of Coxsackie, and ret-nined the name of Coxsackie up to IT'.K), when a portion was taken off and the town ol Freehold formed. And this section known as Freehold took in Greenville, Cairo,
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Coxsackie, 1805 to 1967
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Coxsackie’s post office has been open since 1805. Another post office, Result, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Coxsackie
1805–today
West Coxsackie
1886–today
Result
1890–1908
Climax
1892–today
Earlton
1929–today
18001910today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Bronck HouseClimaxDiedrich Mobile Home ParkEarltonResultWest Coxsackie
Gone or out of use
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The Coxsackie post office opened in 1805, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Coxsackie rank for history?
Coxsackie is more historic than 87% of U.S. towns, #310 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 Coxsackie?
5 listings: 3 buildings, among them the Pieter Bronck House (a National Historic Landmark since 1967), 1 historic district, the Reed Street Historic District, with 30 contributing buildings, and 1 site. 35 historic buildings in all.
How old are the homes in Coxsackie?
22% of Coxsackie’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.1 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1976.
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 the Library of Congress (18), the National Register of Historic Places (5), 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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