Huguenot is a hamlet in the town of
Deerpark, in
Orange County, New York
Orange County is a List of counties in New York, county located in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 401,310. The county seat is Goshen (village), New York, Goshen. This count ...
, United States. It is located north of
Port Jervis
Port Jervis, named after John Bloomfield Jervis, a Roman civil engineer who oversaw the construction of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, is a city located at the confluence of the Neversink and Delaware rivers in western Orange County, New York, ...
on
US-209.
Huguenot Schoolhouse and
Neversink Valley Grange Hall No. 1530 are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
The community was named after
Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , ; ) are a Religious denomination, religious group of French people, French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, ...
immigrants. Huguenot is also named for Huguenot families Cuddeback and Gumaer who settled the area in 1698. The Native American name for the area was Seneyaugnquan.
From 1918 to 2021 the
YMCA of Greater New York maintained a
YMCA camp near Huguenot. In March 2021, it was announced that the camp would be closing its doors and was to be sold. This was due to an overall loss of around $100 million during the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
.
Since 2005, the annual
electro-music
The electro-music music festival
A music festival is a festival, community event with music, performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock music, rock, blues, folk music ...
music festival has been held in Huguenot's Greenkill Retreat Center.
electro-music 2011 - Sept 9-11 - Huguenot, NY
.
References
Hamlets in Orange County, New York
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