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Blooming Grove, NY - History
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Welcome to the Blooming Grove Home page. The Blooming Grove Home page provides as much information as possible on Blooming Grove. Knowing Blooming Grove’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Blooming Grove’s Home page, you will also find Blooming Grove’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Blooming Grove has a population of 17589. 50.8% of Blooming Grove’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.2 are female. 57.4% of Blooming Grove is married and 80.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $288,018, and the average rent is $1,302. Household median income in Blooming Grove is $89,283, and the individual median income is $43,121. Blooming Grove’s Ethnic is the following: White(81.3%), Hispanic(17.1%), Black(9.4%), Other(4.4%), Multiple(3.6%), Asian(1.1%), Native(0.3%).
Vincent Mathews was likely the earliest settler who purchased the Rip Van Dam patent in 1721, built a grist mill and named his settlement "Mathewsfield." He is the father of David Mathews, a Loyalist who was Mayor of New York during the American Revolutionary War, and Fletcher Mathews, also a Loyalist and alleged abettor to schemes against the newly forming republic. The town of Blooming Grove was formed from the town of Cornwall in 1799.
In 1830, the town of Hamptonburgh was established from part of Blooming Grove. Another part of Blooming Grove was taken to form the town of Chester in 1845. The village of South Blooming Grove was incorporated in July, 2006. Andrew Jackson Davis, the "Poughkeepsie Seer", was born in Blooming Grove in 1826.The Brotherhood Winery in Washingtonville is the oldest continuously operating winery in the United States, having been established in 1839.
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