Editing Hamptonburgh, New York (section)

==History==
The town was part of the patent of 1703, assigned to Christopher Denn and others. Hamptonburgh was named by an early settler, William Bull, for his place of birth, [[Wolverhampton]], England.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA148 |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |author=Gannett, Henry |year=1905 |pages=148}}</ref>
Bull married Sarah Wells. Bull was a stone mason and built many stone houses in area. He built what is now known as [[Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site|General Henry Knox's Headquarters]], used as a headquarters in the American Revolution. William and Sarah married in 1718 and built the [[Bull Stone House]] on 100 acres, now at the intersection of the Sarah Wells Trail and County Route 51. They raised 12 children to adulthood, who all married and raised children to adulthood. Today, the Bull Family still owns and occupies the Bull Stone House, hold America's second longest annual family reunion, and have maintained their genealogy since 1796. In his lifetime, Bull amassed thousands of acres around his original 100. He left much of it to his five sons, who handed much of it down to their children. William Bull and Sarah Wells are buried in the Hamptonburgh Cemetery. William died in the winter of 1755/56. Sarah died at the age of 100 years and 15 days in 1796.

The town was established in 1830 from parts of the Towns of [[Blooming Grove, New York|Blooming Grove]], [[Goshen (town), New York|Goshen]], and [[Montgomery (town), New York|Montgomery]], including land which previously belonged to Loyalist Fletcher Mathews (brother of [[David Mathews]] who was Mayor of [[New York City]]) during its occupation by the British during the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]]).

===Campbell Hall===
====Early years====
According to ''An Outline History of Orange County'' by Samuel Watkins Eager p.&nbsp;378, the hamlet of Campbell Hall was named for Colonel Campbell who was a Scotchman, had two sons, and when the war of the Revolution commenced, one son sided with England, the other with his adopted country. The Tory brother would not speak with his Republican relative. The sentiments of this brother were changed by the happy results of the revolution.

====Railroads====
From 1900 to about 1960, Campbell Hall was a center of considerable railroad activity. The Erie, New York Ontario and Western, Lehigh and New England, New York Susquehanna and Western, came together and interchanged freight at the nearby large Maybrook railroad yard. NYO&W, financially struggling from inception, abandoned operations in 1957. Freight business for the other railroads diminished too, causing a considerable loss of railroad employment for Hamptonburgh.<ref>Classic Trains Magazine, Kalmbach Publishing, Spring 2012 issue, pp,38-43. "Farewell, Old Woman," J.Shaughnessy.</ref>