Liberty (town), New York
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Liberty is a town in Sullivan County
Sullivan County, New York
Sullivan County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 77,547. The county seat is Monticello. The name is in honor of Major General John Sullivan, who was a hero in the American Revolutionary War...

, New York
New York
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, United States
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. The population was 9,632 at the 2000 census.

The Town of Liberty contains a village of Liberty
Liberty (village), New York
Liberty is a village in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 3,975 at the 2000 census.The Village of Liberty is centrally located in the Town of Liberty and is adjacent to New York Route 17.- History :...

. The village is bisected by state route 52
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 and 55
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, and is crossed by New York State Route 17
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.

History

The town of Liberty was created from the Town of Lumberland
Lumberland, New York
Lumberland is a town in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 1,939 at the 2000 census.The Town of Lumberland is in the southwest part of the county.- History :...

 in 1807 and became the fourth town in the county. The town of Callicoon was taken off, and a part of the Town of Thompson added in 1842, and a part of the Town of Rockland added in 1849. The first permanent white settlement was made by Eleazer Larabee from Stonington, CT, who came to Liberty from the Town of Neversink in 1794. Larabee constructed the first sawmill in the town, located at the outlet of Brodhead Pond (now Revonah Lake), where the initial settlement, known as the Blue Mountain Settlement, in the town was located. Subsequent settlements were in the present Village of Liberty, in Liberty Falls (now the hamlet of Ferndale), the hamlet of Parksville, the hamlet of Stevensville (now Swan Lake) and the hamlet of Robertsonville (now White Sulphur Springs). The Town of Liberty furnished 303 men for the Army during the Civil War.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the town has a total area of 80.7 square miles (209.0 km²), of which, 79.6 square miles (206.2 km²) of it is land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²) of it (1.36%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census
Census
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of 2000, there were 9,632 people, 3,711 households, and 2,263 families residing in the town. The population density
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 was 121.0 people per square mile (46.7/km²). There were 5,350 housing units at an average density of 67.2 per square mile (25.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 83.70% White, 9.19% Black or African American
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, 0.37% Native American, 1.43% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 3.76% from other races
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, and 1.54% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.90% of the population.

There were 3,711 households out of which 30.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.7% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.0% were non-families. 32.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.08.

In the town the population was spread out with 24.7% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 95.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.2 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $32,022, and the median income for a family was $37,689. Males had a median income of $31,088 versus $24,655 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the town was $17,565. About 12.1% of families and 17.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.0% of those under age 18 and 11.4% of those age 65 or over.

Communities and locations in the Town of Liberty

  • Cooley – A location near the north town line.
  • Ferndale (formerly Liberty Falls) – A hamlet
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     south of Liberty village on Route 17.
  • Grossinger – A hamlet south of Liberty village on Route 17. Formerly this was the site of Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel
    Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel
    Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel was a resort in the Catskill Mountains in the Town of Liberty, near the village of Liberty, New York. It is part of the Borscht Belt. After decades of activity and notable guests, it closed its doors in 1986.-History:...

  • Liberty
    Liberty (village), New York
    Liberty is a village in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 3,975 at the 2000 census.The Village of Liberty is centrally located in the Town of Liberty and is adjacent to New York Route 17.- History :...

     – The Village of Liberty on Route 17.
  • Loomis – A hamlet west of Liberty village.
  • Parksville – A hamlet north of Liberty village on Route 17.
  • Revonah Lake (formerly Brodhead Pond)– A lake
    Lake
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     northwest of Liberty village that was probably the first settlement site in the town.
  • Swan Lake (formerly Stevensville) – A hamlet near the south town line, located at the eastern end of a lake called "Swan Lake."
  • White Sulphur Springs (formerly Robertsonville) – A hamlet in the southwest part of the town on Route 52.

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