Bridgeville, NY

Bridgeville is a hamlet southeast of Monticello located in the southern Catskill Mountains in Thompson, County of Sullivan, and State of New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 149 residents. Bridgeville is located on the Neversink River on New York State Route 17, at an elevation of 1,081 feet. Bridgeville has hilly terrain. The Neversink River is well known for fly-fishing and Bridgeville is a popular location for fishermen. Bridgeville is also the site of Holiday Mountain Ski Park. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Bridgeville, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet.

For Bridgeville, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. See Town of Thompson for area demographic information. Indigenous inhabitants of this area included members of the Algonquian and Lene Lenape tribes. Bridgeville was the site of the first covered bridge in New York State, built in 1807 to facilitate construction of the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike, a major frontier thoroughfare connecting communities on the Delaware and Hudson rivers.