Welcome to The Village of Washingtonville
Village Hall
29 West Main Street
Washingtonville, NY 10992
(845) 496-3221
Washingtonville was first settled in 1731. Growth was slow for the next seventy-five years. In 1809 John Jacques, a boot and shoemaker, set up his shop in this tiny settlement of nine houses then known as Little York. Jacques would later establish Brotherhood Winery, the oldest continuously operating winery in the United States, in 1839.
In its earlier years, Washingtonville was called Matthews Field, even before it became known as Little York. Apart of the Rip Van Dam patent, it was sold to Vincent Matthews in 1721. Matthews, was the second settler of the region although the first white settler. Its earliest known inhabitant was an Indian by the name of Moringamus, whose wigwam or tepee was once pitched in back of where the Coleman bottled-gas plant is located now.
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