Newtonville, New York
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| named_for = early settler John M. Newton
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| subdivision_name = United States
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| subdivision_name1 = New York
| subdivision_type2 = Region
| subdivision_name2 = Capital District
| subdivision_type3 = County
| subdivision_name3 = Albany
| subdivision_type4 = Town
| subdivision_name4 = Colonie
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| established_date = 1840
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| postal_code = 12110
12128 (PO box only){{Cite web| url=https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?bycitystate| title=ZIP Code by City and State: NEWTONVILLE NY| publisher=U.S. Postal Service| access-date=January 27, 2025}}
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Newtonville is a hamlet in the town of Colonie in Albany County, New York, United States. Located along U.S. Route 9, the hamlet is just south of Latham and north of Loudonville. Colonie Town Hall is located in the hamlet of Newtonville.
History
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Newtonville is named after John M. Newton, an early landowner,{{cite book | title = Bi-centennial history of the county of Albany, New York from 1609-1886 | pages = 935–6 | accessdate = 2010-01-31 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkJAQAAIAAJ&q=ireland%27s+corners+loudonville&pg=PA936 | author = George Rogers Howell and Jonathan Tenney | year = 1886 | publisher = W.W. Munsell & Co.}} it was originally called Newton Corners.{{cite web | title = Quiet Hamlet of Newtonville Continues to Grow | url = http://archives.timesunion.com/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5718139 | publisher = Albany Times Union | author = Francis Ingraham | date = 1994-08-21 | accessdate = 2009-04-20 }}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Mr. Newton was in the business of manufacturing bricks, ceramics, and stove linings. He built the First Baptist Church in 1852, today it is the Newtonville Post Office and is on the National Register of Historic Places.{{NRISref|version=2010a}} The first post office at Newtonville was established in 1850 and located in the store owned by John H. Kemp. On October 27, 1887 the Rev. Dr. William Arthur, father of President Chester A. Arthur, died in Newtonville.{{cite book | title = Annual Register | page = 161 | author = Edmund Burke and James Dodsley | year = 1887 | accessdate = 2009-03-21 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FXtdAAAAIAAJ&q=newtonville+william+arthur+annual+register&pg=RA5-PA161}} During the early 1900s Newtonville was a popular place in guide books catering to touring the countryside in early automobiles, such as- Scarborough's Official Tour Book (1918), Automotive Industries (1905), Albany Guide Book (1917), Automotive Blue Book (1921), Red Book: Interstate Automobile Guide, and the A.L.A. Green Book: Official Route Book (1920). In 1906 David Jeram began the Loudonville Autobus line with an 18 passenger Knox bus traveling between Latham's Corners and Albany with a stop at Newtonville.{{cite book | title = The Horseless Age | date = January 3, 1906 | accessdate = 2009-03-21 | page = 431 and 462 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GgsAAAAAMAAJ&q=newtonville+loudonville&pg=PA462}} In 1987 the Buhrmaster Barn, built in the 1800s along the Mohawk River was moved to Newtonville at the site of the historical museum, the Pruyn House. In 1997 the Verdoy Schoolhouse was also moved to that location.{{cite web | title = Pruyn House | url = http://www.colonie.org/pruyn | accessdate = 2009-03-21 | publisher = Town of Colonie}}
Along with the Newtonville Post Office, Casparus F. Pruyn House, and Verdoy Schoolhouse, the Newtonville School and Newtonville United Methodist Church are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Geography
Newtonville is centered on the intersection of Maxwell Road and US Route 9 (New Loudon Road). As a hamlet, its boundaries are indeterminate. Newtonville is generally determined to extend north on Route 9 to the intersection with Old Loudon Road, where the hamlet of Latham begins and west on Maxwell Road to include sections of Old Niskayuna Road.
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{{Geographic Location
|Centre = Hamlet of Newtonville
|North = Hamlet of Latham
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|East = City of Watervliet
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|South = Hamlet of Loudonville
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|West = Interstate 87/Northway
Wolf Road Commercial District
|Northwest = Interstate 87/Northway
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