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I really don't think that accurate, Aurora.
melzingah wasn't a town, it was a village and it freely merged with the Village of Fishkill Landing who was at a time a powerful river port that was not under any pressure to change. Back then you had villages and towns with similar names (even today the Village of Fishkill is in the Town of Fishkill. Cornwall on the Hudson is still within the Town of Cornwall).
I may be wrong, but the name Melzingah was only a option to be voted on but was changed out after it was made fun of by the NYC media. The villages were powerful economic engines and did not want to be considered a joke if they merged, only stronger.
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I really don't think that that's accurate, Aurora.
melzingah wasn't a town, it was a village and it freely merged with the Village of Fishkill Landing who was at a time a powerful river port that was not under any pressure to change. Back then you had villages and towns with similar names (even today the Village of Fishkill is in the Town of Fishkill. Cornwall on the Hudson is still within the Town of Cornwall).
I may be wrong, but the name Melzingah was only a option to be voted on but was changed out after it was made fun of by the NYC media. The villages were powerful economic engines and did not want to be considered a joke if they merged, only stronger.
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I really don't think that's accurate, Aurora.
melzingah wasn't a town, it was a village and it freely merged with the Village of Fishkill Landing who was at a time a powerful river port that was not under any pressure to change. Back then you had villages and towns with similar names (even today the Village of Fishkill is in the Town of Fishkill. Cornwall on the Hudson is still within the Town of Cornwall).
I may be wrong, but the name Melzingah was only a option to be voted on but was changed out after it was made fun of by the NYC media. The villages were powerful economic engines and did not want to be considered a joke if they merged, only stronger.
I will agree that people used melzingah as a location within Beacon after that. My grandparents would call the part in Beacon that was Glenham Glenham, but only the way one would call a specific area. My great aunts and grandmother worked at the mills at Groveville, but would call it Groveville and Beacon in the same sentence.
