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Accord is a hamlet and census-designated place in Ulster County, New York, pronounced ACK-ord, located along US 209 in the eastern part of the town of Rochester - a rural Ulster County town, not the city of Rochester.

Accord is the seat of government for the town of Rochester, and its ZIP Code, 12404, covers a much larger share of the town than the hamlet itself.

The hamlet was originally named Port Jackson and grew up as a Delaware and Hudson Canal town along Rondout Creek; local tradition says the name Accord stuck because officials in Albany could not come to an accord on a new name.

Accord had a population of 573 at the 2020 census, compared with 562 in 2010 and 622 in 2000, when the CDP counted 226 households.

Most of the hamlet was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Accord Historic District in 2020, and nearby listings include the Appeldoorn Farm, Common School No. 10 and the Joachim Schoonmaker Farm.

The D&H Canal carried commerce through Accord from 1828 to 1902, and the Ontario & Western Railroad later stopped in the hamlet from 1902 to 1940, bringing summer visitors from New York City.

Just outside the hamlet, a Paleolithic site called the Mettacahonts Creek Find, discovered in 2004, has produced artifacts that researchers have suggested may predate the accepted arrival of humans in North America.

Set in the fertile Rondout Valley floodplain between the Catskill Mountains and the Shawangunk Ridge, Accord has kept its centuries-old farming character, with pick-your-own farms and Colonial-era stone houses.

The town of Rochester around Accord was first settled by Europeans in 1672 and took its name from a land patent issued in 1703.