Barrytown, NY

Barrytown is a hamlet within Red Hook in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 100 residents. Barrytown is within the Hudson River Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, and contains three notable Hudson River Valley estates: Edgewater, Massena and Rokeby. In 1791, Peter and Eleanor Contine kept store at what would later be called Barrytown Landing. Barrytown's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider New York setting. The local scoop is how Barrytown's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Barrytown was named in honor of President Andrew Jackson's Postmaster General, William Taylor Barry, who served in that capacity from 1829 to 1835. Barrytown includes a historic district.