Located just east of Saratoga Springs among green rolling hills, Greenwich offers visitors and residents great restaurants, attractive shops, and many leisure activities with quick access to some of New York’s and Vermont’s best recreation areas.
The Village of Greenwich on the banks of the Battenkill, a nationally recognized trout stream, has been called “the most extraordinary, beautiful and architecturally intact village in all of upstate New York.” Rich with Victorian and Greek revival architecture, village greens and gardens, the Nineteenth Century storefronts that line Main Street provide distinctive dining and shopping in a historic small town environment.
Discover the area’s historic role in the Revolutionary War, the French and Indian War, Women’s Suffrage, and the Underground Railroad in the Village of Greenwich and Easton. In August, visit the Washington County Fair, “an agricultural tradition for over a century,” one of the state’s biggest and best.
The Horicon tribe is believed to be part of the early native population of Greenwich, with families settling in the area around 1763. Likewise, early European settlers were attracted by the advantages of water power.
Grist mills and sawmills were followed by woolen, cotton, flax and land plaster mills. Later, paper mills and farming became the backbone of the town’s economy.
The Town of Greenwich was part of five different land patents until it was set off as a separate Town in 1803. The Village of Greenwich was first known as Whipple City, named for Job Whiple, its first successful industrialist. The village was the incorporated and renamed Union Village, but the name was again changed in 1867 to Greenwich.
The Town of Greenwich was part of five different land patents until it was set off as a separate Town in 1803. The Village of Greenwich was first known as Whipple City, named for Job Whiple, its first successful industrialist. The village was the incorporated and renamed Union Village, but the name was again changed in 1867 to Greenwich.
he movement for the abolition of slavery was guided by Dr. Hiram Corliss in Greenwich. As such, the town was an important “station” of the Underground Railroad.
In 1895, the Greenwich and Schuylerville Electric Railroad was established, providing trolley transportation from the Capital District to Warrensburg until it was later absorbed by the Hudson Valley Railroad.
The village remains a trading center for the local area, with several locally-owned retail stores, car dealerships, restaurants, craft beverage taprooms and business services dotted along the main streets. You can take a self-guided walking tour of historic locations and of the buildings involved in the Underground Railroad.
The village remains a trading center for the local area, with several locally-owned retail stores, car dealerships, restaurants, craft beverage taprooms and business services dotted along the main streets. You can take a self-guided walking tour of historic locations and of the buildings involved in the Underground Railroad.
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With its west town line defined by the Hudson River and the BattenKill running through it, Greenwich lies in the Cambridge Valley region of southern Washington County.
