Newtonville is a

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in the

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of Colonie in Albany County,

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, United States. Located along U.S. Route 9, the hamlet is just south of Latham and north of Loudonville. Colonie Town Hall is located in the hamlet of Newtonville.

History

Newtonville is named after John M. Newton, an early landowner, it was originally called Newton Corners. Mr. Newton was in the business of manufacturing bricks, ceramics, and stove linings. He built the First Baptist Church in 1852, today it is the Newtonville Post Office and is on the

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. The first post office at Newtonville was established in 1850 and located in the store owned by John H. Kemp. On October 27, 1887 the Rev. Dr. William Arthur, father of

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Chester A. Arthur, died in Newtonville. During the early 1900s Newtonville was a popular place in guide books catering to touring the countryside in early automobiles, such as- Scarborough's Official Tour Book (1918), Automotive Industries (1905), Albany Guide Book (1917), Automotive Blue Book (1921), Red Book: Interstate Automobile Guide, and the A.L.A. Green Book: Official Route Book (1920). In 1906 David Jeram began the Loudonville Autobus line with an 18 passenger

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bus traveling between Latham's Corners and Albany with a stop at Newtonville. In 1987 the Buhrmaster Barn, built in the 1800s along the

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was moved to Newtonville at the site of the historical museum, the Pruyn House. In 1997 the

Verdoy Schoolhouse Verdoy Schoolhouse, also known as District No. 7 Schoolhouse, is a historic one-room school building located at Newtonville in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1910 and is an asymmetrical frame building. It features a slate covered hipped ...

was also moved to that location. Along with the Newtonville Post Office, Casparus F. Pruyn House, and Verdoy Schoolhouse, the

Newtonville School Newtonville School is a historic school building located at Newtonville in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1925 and consists of a one-story, gable-roofed brick main block with a one-story, rectangular hipped roof wing. It is in the Colo ...

and

Newtonville United Methodist Church Newtonville United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located on Loudon Road at Maxwell Road in Newtonville, Albany County, New York. There has been a Methodist congregation meeting at the present site of the church since 1 ...

are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Geography

Newtonville is centered on the intersection of Maxwell Road and

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(New Loudon Road). As a hamlet, its boundaries are indeterminate. Newtonville is generally determined to extend north on Route 9 to the intersection with Old Loudon Road, where the hamlet of Latham begins and west on Maxwell Road to include sections of Old Niskayuna Road.

Location

Notable person

*The Rev. Dr. William Arthur, father of

Chester A. Arthur and pastor of the Newtonville First Baptist Church

References

{{Albany County, New York Hamlets in New York (state) Colonie, New York Hamlets in Albany County, New York