Ludingtonville is a
hamlet
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in the town of
Kent
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,
Putnam County,
New York
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, United States.
It is named for early settler
Henry Ludington
Henry Ludington (May 25, 1739 – January 24, 1817) was an American solider in the American Revolutionary War. He aided the effort by providing spies and was associated with John Jay in a ring of spies.
Early life
Ludington's father, Will ...
from Connecticut.
The building of
Interstate 84 in New York
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resulted in the demolition of much of the historic center to build Exit 17 at Ludingtonville Road, which Ludington Mill survived until a fire burnt it down in 1972—mere months before Putnam's historical society was to restore it. Today Kent Historic Society has made restoring Ludington's mill its project.
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Notable people
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Nelson Ludington
Nelson Ludington (January 18, 1818 – January 15, 1883) was a nineteenth-century American businessman, lumber baron and banker. Born in Ludingtonville, New York, he made his fortune in the Midwest based on resource exploitation: lumber, iron o ...
, American lumber baron in
Michigan
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, businessman and banker in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, was born and raised in Chicago.
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Sybil Ludington
Sybil (or Sibbell) Ludington (April 5, 1761 – February 26, 1839) is recognized as a heroine of the American Revolutionary War; the accuracy of these accounts is questioned by modern scholars. On April 26, 1777, the 16-year-old daughter of a c ...
, the American Revolutionary heroine, was born and raised here. Ludington Mill was owned by her family.
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See also
*''Town of Kent New York: An Illustrated History'' by George Carroll Whipple III and Reginald White (second edition 2012).
Notes
Hamlets in Putnam County, New York
Hamlets in New York (state)
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