Hortonville is a
census-designated place
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in the town of
Delaware
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,
Sullivan County,
New York
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, United States.
As of the
2010 census, its population was 218.
Its
ZIP code is 12745.
Hortonville is the birthplace of
explorer
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Frederick Cook
Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year l ...
, famous for his claim of being the first man to reach the
North Pole
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on April 21, 1908.
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