Verbank, New York

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Verbank, New York, is a small village in the town of Union Vale, in Dutchess County, NY.

[edit] Demographics

The Verbank, NY area in including the village of Verbank has a total population of 956 as of the 2000 census. 474 of which being male residents and 482 being female. as of the 2000 cesus 65 people are under five years old; 77 are 5 to 9 years old; 96 people are 10 to fourteen years old; 96 are 15 to 24 years old; 313 people are 25 to 44 years of age; 185 are between the age of 45 to 59; 92 are 60 to 74 years old; 29 people are 75 to 84 years old, and 13 people are 85 years old and older. The median age is 37.5 years old. There are 313 children under 13 years old living in 142 individual households. The average family size is 3.37 persons.

[edit] Village history

Union Vale (which is the town were Verbank is) was formed from Beekman and LaGrange on March 1, 1827. The first supervisor of the town was John Wilkinson, and the first town clerk was Allen Butler. In Verbank there was once a cotton mill and a paper mill which was the main business of the village, and very close was the Dutchess-Columbia railroad which was arguably the center of the Verbank population with a church, a train station, two stores, and a few houses. And although it is roughly the same now (though the cotton and paper mill are gone) New York State Route 82 now runs through Verbank. The church was built by the Methodist Episcopal Society in 1878.