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Post office, Esopus, NY - August 1904 (exterior view), 1904
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About Esopus
Town in New York, United StatesEsopus ( eh-SOHP-əs) is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 9,548 at the 2020 census. The town was named after the local indigenous tribe and previously thought to mean "small river" in English. However, in the Lenape language, the word translates to "Wellspring of Creation". The Esopus people were one of the Lenape (Delaware) bands, belonging to a people who ranged from western Connecticut through lower New York, western Long Island, and parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania along the Delaware River. The town is on the west bank of the Hudson River south of the city of Kingston. Its center is in Port Ewen. US Route 9W passes along the eastern side of the tow…
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The median sale price was $330,000 in April 2026.
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The public schools Esopus’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 56% of New York’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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