Boston Corner is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

of the town of Ancram in

Columbia County, New York Columbia County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 61,570. The county seat is Hudson, New York, Hudson. The name comes from th ...

, United States and the town of

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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 org ...

. The District of Boston Corner was incorporated by Massachusetts in 1838 from a tract of unincorporated land west of the town of

Mount Washington, Massachusetts Mount Washington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. It lies at the very southwestern corner of Massachusetts, bordering New York State and Sali ...

,Massachusetts, General Court. An Act to incorporate the District of Boston Corner. 1838 Mass. Acts 403, Ch. 112. https://archive.org/details/actsresolvespass3738mass/page/403/ and was ceded from Massachusetts to New York on January 11th, 1855, because its geographical isolation from the rest of Massachusetts made maintaining law and order difficult. Three railroads—

New York Central The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midw ...

Harlem Line The Harlem Line is an commuter rail line owned and operated by the Metro-North Railroad in the U.S. state of New York. It runs north from New York City to Wassaic, in eastern Dutchess County. The lower from Grand Central Terminal to Southea ...

, the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway, and the

Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad The Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad (R&C) was a railroad in Dutchess and Columbia counties in New York, United States. Its line ran east from the Hudson River at Rhinecliff to Boston Corners. It was chartered in 1870 to connect the Conn ...

—once served the hamlet. The New York Central stop was called Boston Corners station. All lines have since been abandoned.

History

1878 description

Although the above description implies the Morrissey/Sullivan fight (and resulting riot) was a primary cause for the annexation, those events actually took place on October 12, 1853, twelve weeks after the cession was agreed to by both states but more than a year before Congress made the transfer official.

References

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The Battle of Boston Corners
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