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Millerton is a village in the town of North East in northeastern Dutchess County, New York, near Taconic State Park and the Connecticut border.

The village was named after Sidney Miller, a railroad contractor who helped bring the railroad to the area, and the community formed after 1851 as the rails arrived.

Millerton incorporated as a village in 1875 after residents voted 77 to 38 in favor, and just a year later the village survived a dissolution vote by a mere five votes.

Three railroads once converged on Millerton, making it an agricultural crossroads with three hotels, and the Harlem Valley Rail Trail now runs through the village on the old New York and Harlem Railroad bed.

The Millerton Iron Company's foundry at nearby Irondale, established in 1854, employed about 150 people by 1882 and produced car-wheel pig iron with a 12,000-ton capacity by 1890.

Millerton counted 903 residents at the 2020 census, and at the 2000 census it had 925 people in 375 households packed into just 0.62 square miles.

Budget Travel magazine named Millerton one of the "Ten Coolest Small Towns in America" in 2007, and a 2011 New York Times feature dubbed the revived village "Williamsburg on the Hudson."

Much of Millerton's 19th-century railroad-era architecture survives, and its historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Millerton counts Baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Collins among its notable natives, and its weekly newspaper is The Millerton News.

The village is served by the NorthEast-Millerton Library on Main Street and hosts the North East Community Center farmers market on Saturdays.