Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 90% of U.S. towns · #258 of 758 in New York. What drives it
5 places in town are on the National Register, among them two historic districts with 102 buildings between them. Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1893 on, and the census since 1820.
The New Baltimore post office opened in 1823, the earliest record of the town by name. Five smaller post offices, Medway (1847), Grapeville (1869) and Stanton Hill (1873), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 90% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, New Baltimore is more historic than 90% of U.S. towns, #258 of 758 in New York. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 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 New Baltimore’s 325 sits above most of its state (87% of New York towns have fewer) while its 104 historic buildings outnumber those of 90% 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.
New Baltimore’s post office has been open since 1823. Five 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 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.
Lost half of its people between 1880 and 1930, then more than doubled.
21 censuses, 1820–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on New Baltimore’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of New Baltimore.
The region was part of the Mahican homeland. The area was settled circa 1700 and was included in early Dutch and English patents. New Baltimore was formed as a town in 1811 from the town of Coxsackie.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention New Baltimore, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The New Baltimore church was organized in 1825. The Baptist church in Athens was organized in 1832. 269
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 hereKelton B. Miller is born here
In the archiveImprovement of Hudson River, New York
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveNew Baltimore on the Hudson, New York2 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Baltimore. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Baltimore.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on New Baltimore’s page.
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Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The New Baltimore post office opened in 1823, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
New Baltimore is more historic than 90% of U.S. towns, #258 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.
5 listings: 1 building, 2 historic districts, the Peter Houghtaling Farm and Lime Kiln and the New Baltimore Hamlet Historic District, with 102 contributing buildings, and 2 sites. 104 historic buildings in all.
20% of New Baltimore’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.0 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1975.
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 Library of Congress (5), 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 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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