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Town of Baldwin

The first settlers to arrive in Baldwin in 1813 found hilly land with forests so thick a wagon could not pass. Brothers Charles and Warren Granger built the first houses in what is now the village of North Chemung. By 1817, 27 families had settled there. More people moved into the area throughout the 1840s and 1850s and, on April 7, 1856, the Town of Baldwin was officially incorporated. The village of Hicks in the northeastern part of town was settled mostly after the Civil War. In 1923, a petition was sent to the County Board of Supervisors in an effort to dissolve the Town of Baldwin, but no action was ever taken.

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