Munnsville, NY

Munnsville is a village in Stockbridge in Madison County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 454 residents. The village is named for an early settler, Asa Munn, and is located on New York State Route 46. Asa Munn opened a mercantile business in the community circa 1817. The short version is that Munnsville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Munnsville: its past remains attached to the places people use now. In 1990 the village received national media attention and interviews by Connie Chung when a local dairy farmer, Delbert Ward, allegedly murdered his brother William Ward by suffocation. New York State Route 46 passes through the village as Main Street, leading north 8 miles to Oneida.