The community of Millerton formed after 1851, and the village was incorporated in 1875.
The Millerton Iron Company established itself nearby in an area known as Irondale and was served by a telegraph address in Millerton. The foundry had two Cooper hot blast stoves and produced car-wheel pig iron (cast iron for railcar wheels) with a 12,000 ton capacity in 1890. The plant was established in 1854 and by 1882 employed approximately 150 people. Irondale was served by a general store, a company owned grist mill, and a post office. A historical marker commemorates the Irondale Cemetery (List of New York State Historic Markers in Dutchess County, New York).
prises were started until after the Civil War. In 1866 the Dutchess & Columbia Railroad Company was organized for the purpose of building a line from a point at the mouth of the Fishkill Creek northeasterly through the county to the village of Millerton on the Harlem Railroad, in the town of Northeast. This company was largely promoted by the firm of Brown Brothers, bankers in New York, who had large interests in the town of Washington. Several towns along the proposed line, FishkiU among them, bonded themselves in aid of the con-
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that company in 1869. Leaving the service of the Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad Co. in 1870 he became the promoter and chief engineer of the Connecticut Western Railroad Company, the surveys and location of that line from Hartford to New York, near Millerton, being made under his personal supervision, and the work was subsequently constructed under his charge in 1870 and 1871. He then became the president and chief engineer of the New York Central Underground Railroad Company. In 1882 Mr. Barnes was appointed chief engineer of the proposed Southern Pennsylvania Railroad, the completion of which was finally
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Millerton, 1876 to 1945
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