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Millbrook is a village near the center of the town of Washington in Dutchess County, New York, in the Hudson Valley about 90 miles north of New York City.

The village site was part of the 1697 Great Nine Partners Patent, and Quaker settlers founded the hamlets of Hart's Village and Mechanic in the area in the mid-1700s.

Millbrook grew up around a Dutchess and Columbia Railroad station that opened in 1869 and was named for an adjacent estate, with Isaac Merritt laying out the village streets soon after.

Millbrook incorporated in 1895 - the last village created in Dutchess County - largely so the philanthropic Thorne family could formally donate the Thorne Memorial School to the community.

Italian immigrants who worked as stonemasons on the great Dutchess County estates settled in Millbrook, and the village's historic landmark plaques are written in both English and Italian.

The 2020 census counted 1,455 people in Millbrook, almost unchanged from 1,452 in 2010, and at the 2000 census the village had 678 households.

In the 1960s the village's Hitchcock Estate, a 64-room mansion on more than 2,000 acres rented from heir Billy Hitchcock, became the home of Timothy Leary's psychedelic circle, and Leary wrote 'The Psychedelic Experience' while based there.

Innisfree Garden, a 185-acre landscape inspired by Chinese and Japanese garden design around a glacial lake, is regarded as an icon of midcentury American landscape design and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Millbrook is home to the Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, one of the world's leading environmental science research centers.

The Millbrook School, just outside the village, operates the Trevor Zoo, the only zoo on a high school campus in the United States accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.