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More historic than 88% of U.S. towns. What drives it
4 places in town are on the National Register. Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 1820.
The Easton post office opened in 1804, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, North Easton (1826), South Easton (1831) and Crandell Corners (1867), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Easton is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Easton’s 30.2 sits near the middle of its state (62% of New York towns have fewer) while its 7 historic buildings outnumber those of 73% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Easton had its own post office from 1804 to 1900. Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Easton’s history is told.
Peaked at 3,753 in 1830; 2,279 people lived here in 2020.
21 censuses, 1820–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Easton’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Easton.
The town of East was formed in 1789 from the towns of Saratoga and Stillwater.
The Baker-Merrill House and DeRidder Homestead are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Easton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Mr. Conklin is one of the largest farmers in the town of Easton, and. has a fine farm of 237 acres. In 1S99 he built upon this farm one of the largest stables in the town of Easton.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Pie has spent considerable time in travel, and ip the year 1878 he was engaged in the wheat business in California. He is one of the enterprising and representative men in the town of Easton. Along with farming, Mr. Buckley is one of the largest stock raisers in Washington County, making a specialty of Guernsey cattle, which, he imports. .
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereGeorge Henry Corliss is born here
BuiltBurton Hall is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Easton.
1954Schaghticoke sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Easton.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Easton post office opened in 1804, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Easton is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns. 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.
4 listings: 4 buildings, among them the DeRidder Homestead (listed 1974, the first). 7 historic buildings in all.
29% of Easton’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.4 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1976.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4), 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 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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