Salisbury Mills ( ) is a

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and

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(CDP) in the towns of Blooming Grove and

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in Orange County,

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, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 580. The CDP is in eastern Orange County and is bordered to the north by Beaver Dam Lake. Salisbury Mills is built along

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, which flows east into the

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between New Windsor and

Cornwall-on-Hudson Cornwall-on-Hudson is a riverfront village in the town of Cornwall, Orange County, New York, United States. It lies on the west bank of the Hudson River, approximately north of New York City. The population as of the 2020 census was 3,075. It ...

. The

Moodna Viaduct The Moodna Viaduct is a steel railroad trestle spanning Moodna Creek and its valley at the north end of Schunemunk Mountain in Cornwall, New York, near the hamlet of Salisbury Mills. Significance The bridge was constructed between 1906 and 1 ...

, the longest actively used rail trestle in the eastern United States, crosses Moodna Creek at the eastern edge of the CDP.

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forms the northern edge of the CDP. It leads northeast to New Windsor and southwest to

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. Newburgh is to the northeast, and Middletown is to the west.

Demographics

Education

Most of it is in Cornwall Central School District while a portion is in Washingtonville Central School District.
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{{authority control Census-designated places in Orange County, New York Census-designated places in New York (state)