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Milton is a hamlet and census-designated place in the northeastern part of the town of Marlborough in Ulster County, on the west bank of the Hudson River — not to be confused with the town of Milton in Saratoga County.

Milton had a population of 1,650 at the 2020 census.

The community was named after the English poet John Milton.

Milton's first settler of record was Captain William Bond, who obtained a land patent from Queen Anne on June 12, 1712, reserving any trees fit for masts and planks for the Royal Navy.

The Milton Methodist Church is the oldest Methodist building in Ulster County; its society was incorporated on November 16, 1812, and Methodist circuit riders had served the village as early as 1786.

The historic Milton Railroad Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

In 1959 Milton's main street was temporarily made over to resemble a town in the Deep South for the filming of The Fugitive Kind, starring Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani.

Milton sits in one of New York's oldest fruit-growing districts — the town of Marlborough has been a major fruit-producing hub since the 1700s, known for apples, grapes, peaches and its wineries and cider houses.

In the steamboat era, boats from New York City arrived at Milton's landing nightly, and the hamlet's newspaper, the National Pioneer, was published there in 1830.