Coleman Station Historic District

Coleman Station is a small farming hamlet in a hollow where the Webatuck Creek and its tributaries meet, near the New York-Connecticut line south of Millerton. Settlers from Connecticut and Massachusetts began buying land in the 1750s and 1760s, and families such as the Wheelers, Collins and Dakins established farms on the hillsides facing the valley. A farmhouse on Coleman Station Road carries a date stone reading 1771. The Harlem Valley Railroad arrived in 1851, giving the place its name from landowner Amasa Coleman and adding grist and plaster mills, mining of peat, slate and iron, and later a milk plant and ice pond. In the early 1900s businessman Thomas Hidden built the Hiddenhurst country estate, later replaced in part by a large dairy farm. The district includes 60 contributing buildings, a cemetery and preserved farm landscapes, and it is regarded as representative of the wider Oblong region.