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Ellenville is a village within the Town of Wawarsing in Ulster County, with 4,167 residents at the 2020 census.

Ellenville is one of only three incorporated villages in Ulster County, along with New Paltz and Saugerties.

The first building at the village site was erected around 1798 by Alpheus Fairchild, a settler from Connecticut, and the settlement was briefly known as Fairchild City, or simply The City.

The village took its present name in the 1820s from Ellen Snyder, the sister-in-law of tavern keeper Nathan Hoornbeek, when residents needed a name for their new post office.

The Delaware and Hudson Canal, built in the 1820s to carry Pennsylvania coal to the Hudson River, turned Ellenville into a canal town and manufacturing center, with local glass and pottery factories.

After the canal era, the New York, Ontario and Western Railway made Ellenville a resort gateway, and dozens of hotels, inns, boarding houses and bungalow colonies served summer visitors.

In the 2010 census the village counted 4,135 people living in about 1,580 households.

Ellenville lies in the Rondout Valley at the eastern base of the Catskill Mountains and the western base of the Shawangunk Ridge, where Sandburg Creek and the Beer Kill join to form Rondout Creek.

The village sits at the junction of US Route 209 and New York State Route 52 along the Shawangunk Scenic Byway, about 90 miles northwest of New York City.

The Terwilliger House on Canal Street serves as the local history museum of the Ellenville Public Library.