Speigletown is a
hamlet
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within the
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Schaghticoke, New York
Schaghticoke is a town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 7,679 at the 2010 census. It was named for the Schaghticoke, a Native American tribe formed in the seventeenth century from an amalgamation of remnant peop ...
in
Rensselaer County
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,
New York
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, United States.
It is located northeast of
Troy
Troy ( el, Τροία and Latin: Troia, Hittite language, Hittite: 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 ''Truwiša'') or Ilion ( el, Ίλιον and Latin: Ilium, Hittite language, Hittite: 𒃾𒇻𒊭 ''Wiluša'') was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in prese ...
on
New York State Route 40, which is named Speigletown Road in that section. It is near the
Hudson River
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, which is the border of
Saratoga County
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. It shares
ZIP code 12182 with
Lansingburgh.
Its coordinates are 42° 48' 16" North, 73° 38' 5" West.
History
The first permanent settlement began ''circa'' 1668. In May 1976, the land was surveyed and the original name of Dort was changed to Speigletown. Somehow, the spelling of Speigletown and VanDerSpiegel do not match. Records do not show the reason. In 1819, a portion of the town of Schaghticoke was annexed to
Lansingburgh, which contains the hamlet of Speigletown, in the northeastern part of the town. The hamlet received its name from the Vanderspiegel families, early Dutch settlers of the southern part of the Schaghticoke area.
Technically, Speigletown was at the intersection of the Northern Turnpike and what would become Fogarty Road. The hamlet had a church, school house and a cemetery. Today, Speigletown unofficially starts around the Firehouse on NY Rt 40, just north of Troy and goes a little north of Fogarty Road. Today's lower Speigletown originally consisted of lands owned by Bedford Filkins on the western side of the Northern Turnpike and Cornelius Lansing, which was sold to Ai Pine in 1856.
In February 2008, voters of the Lansingburgh Central School District voted in Speigletown for an almost $3 million bond to improve the school facilities.
"Voters to decide on bond: Balloting is today on $2.9 million project covered by state aid"
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Important businesses
* WQBK-FM
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See also
* History of Lansingburgh, New York
This is a history of Lansingburgh, New York.
Overview
The town of Lansingburgh was originally intended as the site for the principal city north of Albany on the east bank of the Hudson River; but the inhabitants of the settlement a mile or tw ...
References
External links
Hometownlocator website
Hamlets in Rensselaer County, New York
1668 establishments in the Province of New York
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