Cuddebackville is a hamlet in

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, in

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, United States. Taking US-209, its location is about north of

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. Cuddebackville is home of the Hamilton Bicentennial Elementary School, which is run by the

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. This hamlet is also home of the

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Canal Park and the

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Unique Area. The hamlet was named after William Cuddeback, a general from the

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and a descendant of the Cuddeback family, one of the first families to settle in the area. The Cuddebackville Dam was a dam that was located in Cuddebackville, which was built in the 1820s and expanded on in 1903. In October 2004, the dam was removed by the Army Corps of Engineers to help aquatic life in the area. According to the Census Bureau, the

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is located within the hamlet of Cuddebackville. Cuddebackville also is the home of the global headquarters of the

Falun Gong Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a new religious movement founded by its leader Li Hongzhi in China in the early 1990s. Falun Gong has its global headquarters in Dragon Springs, a compound in Deerpark, New York, United States, near t ...

movement and the

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performance arts troupe.

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