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Philmont, New York was incorporated in 1892. The community was also known as "Factory Hill" due to the number of wool factories. Philmont is part ...  Go to Philmont-at-a-Glance >>

Nature Exploration Program The Community Center, in the Village of Philmont, will be offering Nature Exploration programs, starting Wednesday, July 1, from 4:00 pm– 6:00 pm... Read more >>

Create, Imagine and Explore At this year’s summer reading program, the young patrons of the Philmont Public Library will study explorers, especially Henry Hudson, who 400 years ago explored the Hudson River... Read more >>

Philmont Family Fun Day Fishing derbies have been popular with the young and the young at heart for many years. Philmont’s fishing derby started in the 1970s as a way to involve youth in the sport of fishing... Read more >>

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Pine Haven - Past, Present & Future?? At the turn of the 20th century, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death. Fearing the disease might reach epidemic proportions following the return of the World War I soldiers and sailors... Read More >>

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The Flood
by Charles R. Nichols

The year 1938 was not kind to Philmont. First the depression / recession was still truly affecting the Village. Next the Philmont National Bank was robbed. Finally came the Hurricane of September 21. The 1938 Hurricane is still one of the worst disasters in North American History in terms of fatalities and property damage.

Upstate New York and the Hudson River valley were squarely in the path of the storm. Torrential rains preceded the wind. The wind gusts in Philmont were not near the 115 – 120 MPH winds at landfall on the coast, but were sufficient, with the softening rain, to topple many trees and power lines here. Most of the local streams overflowed their banks to some degree. The Philmont Reservoir was full to the brim, with all the water possible going over the dam, and through the sluice gates.

A sudden ‘wall of water’ came into the Reservoir and the water, with no where else to go, cascaded over the lowest parts of the north shore...
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