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Brushton is a small incorporated village in the town of Moira, Franklin County, in New York's North Country west of Malone, the county seat.

Brushton is named for Henry N. Brush, the landowner who bought the mills on the Little Salmon River in 1835; the settlement was known as Brush's Mills until it was officially named Brushton on October 1, 1877.

Brushton's milling roots go back even further - a sawmill was erected at the site with the first settlement of the town, and the stone grist mill that still defines its history was built by Robert Watts in 1823 and later enlarged by Henry Brush.

Brushton's population was 443 at the 2020 census, down from a peak of 598 back in 1890.

The 2000 census counted 479 people in 213 households in Brushton, all packed into a village of just 0.28 square miles along U.S. Route 11.

Henry Corbin Brush, born in Brush's Mills in 1838, went on to invent the Brush Trolling Spoon, a shallow-running fishing lure written up in Scientific American in 1877.

Brushton grew up as a station on the Rutland Railroad, and the Little Salmon River flows north through the village on its way to the St. Lawrence River just across the Canadian border.

Children in Brushton are served by the Brushton-Moira Central School District, and the village's former high school building has been converted into apartments.