Editing Milton, Ulster County, New York (section)

===Churches===
====United Methodist====
Circuit riders served the Methodists in this village as far back as 1786. Meetings were held in the home of James Perry. On November 16, 1812 the Milton M.E. Society was incorporated. A church building was erected on the former Sands property. The Milton Methodist Church is the oldest Methodist building in Ulster County. It remained a circuit station until 1858 D.W.C Van Gaasbeck became the first pastor. The Marlboro Methodists joined the Milton Methodists in 1982 to form one congregation. In 2012 the community celebrated its 200th anniversary.<ref>[http://www.mm-umc.com/United_Methodist_Church_of_Milton_Marlboro/About_Us.html "Our Heritage", The United Methodist Church of Milton-Marlboro]</ref>

====St. James Roman Catholic Church====
Irish Catholics began to arrive in Milton around 1850. To hear Mass they had to go by horse-boat to a place called "The Hollow" near Wappingers Falls. Some went to Poughkeepsie. In 1865 Milton became a mission of Rosendale and was attended every two or three weeks by a Father O'Toole and later by Rev. Patrick Brady. In 1867 Rev. Michael Phelan of Port Ewan purchased the old Methodist meeting house in Marlboro where Mass was said for Catholics of Marlboro and Milton. In 1874 Rev. James Francis Mee was appointed first resident pastor in Milton with missions at Marboro and Ireland Corners (otherwise known as Gardiner).<ref name=Lafort>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KL4YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA399 Lafort, Remigius. ''The Catholic Church in the United States of America'', Vol. 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg]. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.414</ref>

In 1882 Father Mee purchased land for a Catholic cemetery in Lattintown, interments having been made previously in a cemetery near Poughkeepsie. Upon Mee's transfer to Rye in 1886, his successor, Rev. James L. Hoey also took charge of the missions in Marlboro and Roseton. Father Richard B. Cushion served from November 1909 to May 1913. Cushion is remembered for having been particularly attentive to the needs of the Italian members of the congregation. They initially came to the area as farm laborers picking berries; many went on to become permanent farmers and fruit dealers.<ref name=Lafort/>

In August 2015, the parish of St. James merged with St. Mary's CAT church where all people may be cats.