Editing Williamstown, New York (section)

== Communities and locations in Williamstown ==
*'''Checkered House''' &ndash; A location in the western part of the town on [[New York State Route 13|Route 13]].
*'''Happy Valley''' &ndash; A hamlet on the western town line, which  was founded in the 1860s. Happy Valley was cleared out in the 1930s after the government decided it would be better used as a nature reserve.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorkupstate.com/northern-ny/2016/04/rediscovering_happy_valley_ny.html|title=Looking back at Happy Valley, a farm town uprooted in the 1930s to make way for wildlife|date=April 27, 2016|website=newyorkupstate|language=en|access-date=March 1, 2020}}</ref>
*'''Kasoag''' &ndash; A hamlet in the center of the town. Kasoag was originally an old [[Oneida people|Oneida Indian]] trail from Oneida Castle to the [[Salmon River (New York)|Salmon River]], and many relics of the Oneida are still found in Kasoag to this day. In 1810 the first settlement of Kasoag was built by William Hamilton and the original dam he built for his saw mill still stands to this very day.<ref name="Gorski, Glenna 1991">Gorski, Glenna, Cleveland, Roberta, Loomis, Willard, Gardner, Florence, La Duke, Anne. “A Look at the Past: Williamstown, NY.” Compco, Inc., 1991.Print.</ref>
*'''Maple Hill''' &ndash; A hamlet north of Williamstown village, Maple Hill came to be in 1860. It was created by Calvert Comstock, a prominent business man from [[Rome, New York|Rome]] who owned a number of timber and saw mills. Between 1862 and 1863 a store, a school, and a post office were constructed on Maple Hill. From 1862 to 1970 Comstock had more track for the Williamstown & Redfield Railroad placed in, those tracks were known in that area as the “Maple Hill Railroad.” Comstock did this to support his timber contract with Rome to the Central. Eventually all the valuable timber was used up and Maple Hill was abandoned except a few farmers in the year 1876.<ref>Palmer, Richard. “Maple Hill and the Williamstown & Redfield Railroad.” Rome Sentinel.</ref><ref name="Gorski, Glenna 1991"/>
*'''Ricard''' &ndash; A hamlet in the northern part of the town.
*'''Williamstown''' &ndash; The hamlet of Williamstown is in the southeastern section of the town on Route 13.
*'''Case Wall''' &ndash; The Case Wall, two miles north of the Town of Williamstown, was built by Jonathan Case Jr. from 1838-1880. Case Wall is a famous and historical sight. Case originally built the wall to keep travelers and passerby out of his award-winning apple orchards. Most of the stones for the Case Wall were either pulled from the roads of that day or plowed out of fields. Some of the amazing feats for this time are that the wall has no mortar or cement to hold it together; all the rocks were hand-picked and leveled off with only a chisel and a maul. Some of the stones on the Case Wall weigh as much as 300 pounds and in some places it is seven feet tall by five feet wide and in some areas it was wide enough to ride a horse and buggy on.  Case Wall is also two miles long. Officials in Williamstown are working on getting the Case Wall on a national registry which would make it illegal for people to steal the flat stones of the wall which is common at this sight.<ref>Gorski, Glenna, Cleveland, Roberta, Loomis, Willard, Gardner, Florence, La Duke, Anne. “The Magnificent Jonathan Case Wall.” Williamstown Historical Society,2012.Print.</ref><ref name="Gorski, Glenna 1991"/>
[[File:NY 183 at the Williamstown town  line.jpg]]