Place:Boston Corners, Columbia, New York, United States

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NameBoston Corners
TypeHamlet
Coordinates42.055099°N 73.522008°W
Located inColumbia, New York, United States     (1857 - )
Also located inBerkshire, Massachusetts, United States     ( - 1857)
Ancram, Columbia, New York, United States     (1857 - )
Mount Washington, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States     ( - 1857)


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Boston Corner is a hamlet of the town of Ancram in Columbia County, New York, United States and the town of Northeast in Dutchess County. The District of Boston Corner was incorporated by Massachusetts in 1838 from a tract of unincorporated land west of the town of Mount Washington, Massachusetts, and was ceded from Massachusetts to New York on January 11, 1855, because its geographical isolation from the rest of Massachusetts made maintaining law and order difficult.

Three railroads—New York Central's Harlem Line, the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway, and the Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad—once served the hamlet. All lines have since been abandoned.

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