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Apalachin is a census-designated place in the Town of Owego in Tioga County, New York, named after Apalachin Creek.

The first settler arrived in the Apalachin area around 1786, though the community itself was not founded until 1836.

Apalachin became world-famous on November 14, 1957, when the Apalachin Meeting — a summit of American Mafia bosses — was held at the home of local resident Joseph Barbara.

An estimated 100 Mafiosi from the United States, Canada and Italy gathered at Barbara's 53-acre estate, and more than 60 underworld bosses were detained after state police raided the meeting.

The Apalachin Meeting helped confirm the existence of the American Mafia to the public, something FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had long refused to acknowledge publicly.

The 1957 meeting was depicted in the 1972 film The Valachi Papers and the 2019 film Mob Town, and was referenced in Goodfellas.

From 1960 until its cancellation in 2016, Apalachin hosted the annual Apalachin Firemen's Field Days, a four-day carnival generally held in the first week of June.

Apalachin's Riverside Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

As of the 2020 census, Apalachin had a population of 2,632, with a median age of 42.5 years.

Benjamin F. Tracy, who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1889 to 1893, was an Apalachin resident.