Pennellville, New York
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Pennellville is a hamlet in Oswego County
Oswego County, New York
Oswego County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 Census, the estimated population was 122,109. The City of Oswego and the Village of Pulaski serve as the dual county seats in a two shire system of government...

, New York
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, United States
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. It is located in the Town of Schroeppel
Schroeppel, New York
Schroeppel is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 8,566 at the 2000 census. The name derives from the Schroeppel family, early land owners of the area.The Town of Schroeppel is in the southeast part of the county....

. Its ZIP Code
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 is 13132. Elevation is 413 feet above Mean Sea Level
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.

History

The hamlet is named after Richard Pennell M.D., of New York. His wife inherited the land from her father, George C. Schroeppel. Running through the area was a stream, called by the local Indian tribe Ahinahtanaganus (translated: "big fish water") upon which, in 1833 Dr. Pennell commissioned a sawmill
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, which was built by Laren Seymour.

In an 1878 study, , the hamlet was located on the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad
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, and contained a general store, cheese-factory, the saw-mill, a brick-yard, a blacksmithy, a railroad depot, telegraph and express offices, a hotel, a Universalist
Universalist Church of America
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church, and a brick school-house. The population at that time was estimated to be around 150.

The burial ground in the hamlet is the burial place of Dr. and Mrs. Pennell, and also Henry W. Schroeppel.
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