Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Kerhonkson, NY

Kerhonkson is a hamlet and census-designated place in Ulster County, New York, straddling the towns of Rochester and Wawarsing, with the larger portion in Rochester and U.S. Route 209 as its main artery.

Kerhonkson was the site of a colonial fort on Deyo's Hill that protected early settlers in the Rondout Valley.

In October 1777, just before the British burned Kingston, New York's important government documents and officials were moved to Kerhonkson for about two weeks, making the hamlet briefly the capital of New York.

The Delaware and Hudson Canal, completed in 1828, turned Kerhonkson into a shipping point for coal, lumber and dairy goods along Rondout Creek, and during the canal era the hamlet was known as Middleport.

The 2020 census counted 1,722 people in the Kerhonkson CDP.

In 1951, famed tap dancer Peg Leg Bates opened the Peg Leg Bates Country Club in Palentown, within the Kerhonkson ZIP code, becoming the first African-American resort owner in the Catskills.

Bates's resort entered civil rights history in 1966, when a meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) held there voted to expel whites from its staff.

Soyuzivka, a well-known Ukrainian heritage and cultural resort center, sits within the Kerhonkson ZIP code in the town of Wawarsing.

Locals have given the hamlet the nicknames 'K-Town' and, as second-home buyers arrived from New York City, 'the Kerhamptons.'

Kerhonkson Elementary School serves the hamlet's youngest students.