Oniontown Rd, Dutchess County, July 2006 (2)
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Oniontown is a road and community in
Dutchess County Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, and later organ ...
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, United States, located 1.5 miles south of the hamlet of
Dover Plains Dover Plains is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 1,323 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie– Newburgh– Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...
, in the Town of
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, partially known for the historically off-putting demeanor of its residents towards outsiders. In 1947, International News Service reporter James L. Kilgallen voyaged into Oniontown and wrote three articles about the place including; “Escape from Atomic Age: Real Life Tobacco Road 100 Miles from Broadway”. It was briefly the subject of worldwide media attention in 2008, when a derisive video about the area published on YouTube led to visiting outsiders being attacked.


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Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area Hamlets in Dutchess County, New York {{DutchessCountyNY-geo-stub