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More historic than 84% of U.S. towns · #366 of 758 in New York. What drives it
1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 21 buildings. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1913 on, and the census since 1850.
The Schuyler Falls post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Wood Falls (1855), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 84% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Schuyler Falls is more historic than 84% of U.S. towns, #366 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.
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 Schuyler Falls’ 43.3 sits above most of its state (67% of New York towns have fewer) while its 21 historic buildings outnumber those of 80% 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Schuyler Falls’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1850 and 1930, then grew 3-fold.
17 censuses, 1850–2010.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Schuyler Falls’ Wikipedia page.
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.
From Wikipedia’s history of Schuyler Falls.
The area was first settled circa 1794 by Ezra Turner, who settled near the Salmon River, and built the first sawmill in 1801.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereAndrew Jackson Turner is born here
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - New York - Clinton County - ED 10-49, ED …
Born hereJoseph Ladue is born here
In the archiveElsinore Subscriber's Business Directory; Plattburgh and Schuyler Falls (Township); West …
Born hereCalvin Bridges is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveDannemora New York USGS topo map 19113 decades in the archive, from the 1850s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Schuyler Falls. 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 Schuyler Falls.
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 Schuyler Falls’ page.
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Schuyler Falls’s post office has been open since 1833. Another post office, Wood Falls, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Schuyler Falls post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Schuyler Falls is more historic than 84% of U.S. towns, #366 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.
One place: the Hamlet of Schuyler Falls Historic District (listed 2026).
18% of Schuyler Falls’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.2 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1979.
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 (4), 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) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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