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Middletown (City in Orange co N Y)

a city in Orange co., N. Y., on the Wallkill river, and on the Erie, New York, Ontario and Western, and the Middletown and Unionville railroads; 66 miles N. W. of New York City. There are a Union School, Middletown Academy, the Thrall Public Hospital, the State Asylum for the Insane, waterworks, public library, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city is the center of a large country trade in live-stock and garden produce. Here are located the machine shops of the New York, Ontario and Western railroad, and there are manufactories of woolen hats, wood type, shirts, blankets, files, saws, sheet MIGNONETTE steel, condensed milk, etc. Middletown was chartered as a city in 1888, up to which year it was a part of Wallkill township. It was important in the early history of New York as a half-way station on the old Minisink road, which ran from the Hudson to the Delaware river, and was much used by emigrants on their way to western New York. Pop. (1910) 15,313, (1920) 18,420.