Editing Palenville, New York

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'''Palenville''' is a [[Hamlet (New York)|hamlet]] and [[census-designated place]] (CDP) in [[Greene County, New York|Greene County]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States. The population was 1,002 at the 2020 census.<ref>US Census Bureau, Census Report, Palenville CDP, New York https://www.census.gov/search-results.html?searchType=web&cssp=SERP&q=Palenville%20CDP,%20New%20York</ref>

Palenville is in the southwestern part of the town of [[Catskill (town), New York|Catskill]], located at the junction of Routes 23A and 32A. It lies at the foot of [[Kaaterskill Clove]], at the base of the [[Catskill Mountains]]. [[Kaaterskill Creek]], exiting the Clove, runs through the town, and was spanned by a [[simple suspension bridge|swinging footbridge]], destroyed during [[Tropical Storm Irene]]. The creek provides a number of [[swimming hole]]s in the summer months, and the [[Long Path]] runs through the town.

==History==
Palenville takes its name from the Palen family, who built and operated tanneries throughout the Catskills starting the 1820s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ancestraltrackers.org/ny/resources/history-new-york-swamp-1901.pdf|title=Frank W. Norcross, ''A History of the New York Swamp'', New York:The Chiswick Press, 1901, pp. 133, 152-4}}</ref> The tannery era was short. When the local supply of hemlock bark was exhausted, the tannery closed, leaving Palenville to reinvent itself.

[[File:Detroit Photographic Company (0646).jpg|thumb|left|260px|[[Otis Elevating Railway]] in Palenville, ca. 1900]]
With many waterfalls and natural vistas nearby, Palenville was an important center of the [[Hudson River School]] of painting during the 19th century. [[Thomas Cole]], [[Frederic Church]], and other notable [[painting|painters]] stayed and worked in Palenville during the height of the movement. The famous painting ''[[Kindred Spirits (painting)|Kindred Spirits]]'' depicts Cole and [[William Cullen Bryant]] near [[Kaaterskill Falls]], just uphill from the town. The famous [[Catskill Mountain House]] was also located just outside Palenville. Palenville was the fictional home of [[Rip Van Winkle]] (the subject of a short story by [[Washington Irving]]).

Palenville historically was described as the "First Art Colony in America" Dr. Roland Van Zandt, in ''The Catskill Mountain House''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Catskill Mountain House|last=Van Zandt|first=Roland|publisher=Black Dome Press Corp., 1993.}}</ref>

With the coming of the twentieth century, the large boarding houses of the mountain top started to close, but Palenville and the surroundings were often visited by city dwellers. Palenville was one of the Catskills' vacation resorts, hosting nearly two dozen small and medium-sized [[boarding house]]s and many hotels at the turn of the century. Palenville, Kaaterskill Creek, and Kaaterskill Clove have been subjects for several painters, including those listed above.

Late in the 20th century an art gallery opened on Palenville's Main Street, and the Pine Orchard Summer Festival was founded. Opening in 1980 and hosting its first national juried show in 1981, the privately owned and funded Terrance Gallery exhibited more than 1,200 American artists, in a call to revisit the historic gathering place of the 19th-century painters. The Pine Orchard, located on {{convert|60|acre|m2}} along the Manorville Road, through fundraising and grants refurbished a chapel into a theater and hosted opera, plays, musicians, writers and artists. Shakespeare and the Circus arts were presented there by the Bond Street Theater group.

[[Image:Old Studio of Artist Hall, Palenville, NY.jpg|thumb|right|Old studio of Artist Hall in 1906]]
[[Mary Pickford]] made several movies in Palenville. Robert Goss of the group "Dripping Goss" (American Gothic Records) had a single that sold well in Europe in the 1990s, some of which were recorded at the Turning Mill Studio in Palenville.

The Terrance Gallery and the Pine Orchard festivals have closed, but the Palenville Library and the Woodbine Inn are still open.

Palenville was featured on the Endless Thread podcast.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/09/02/swimming-hole | title=Swimming Hole: The man, the myth, the leap }}</ref>

Other noted artists who frequented Palenville and the Clove included [[Winslow Homer]], [[Asher B. Durand]], [[Thomas Addison Richards]], [[John Frederick Kensett]] and [[Sanford R. Gifford]]. Landscape painters of the 20th century included Albert Handel, Barry Hopkins, Athena Billias, Michelle Moran and Patti Ferrara. George H. Hall, who was a [[genre art|genre painter]], took up residence in Palenville towards the end of the 19th century; and Terrance J. DePietro, an [[abstract art|abstract painter]], who was early on influenced by the Hudson River School, maintained residence and a studio from the latter part of the 20th century into the 21st. He brought artists from [[Quebec]], Canada, including Nicole Lemelin and Remi LaRoche.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|2000= 1120
|2010= 1037
|2020= 1002
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
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As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 1,120 people, 433 households, and 287 families residing in the CDP. The population density was {{convert|337.2|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 551 housing units at an average density of {{convert|165.9|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.16% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.45% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.27% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 1.07% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.27% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.79% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 2.23% of the population.

There were 433 households, out of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.0% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.5% were non-families. 25.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.94.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 25.5% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 32.0% from 25 to 44, 24.5% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.7 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $40,833, and the median income for a family was $51,250. Males had a median income of $32,353 versus $23,542 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the CDP was $18,848. 7.4% of the population were living below the [[poverty line]], none of which were under eighteens, over 64, or families.

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* [[Hannah Arendt]], political theorist (summer residence)<ref>{{cite news|url =http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/index.php?id=26&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=7080&cHash=70f1ada54f| title=Tapferkeit vor dem Freund: Der Briefwechsel Hannah Arendt / Uwe Johnson| newspaper=Die Berliner Literaturkritik|access-date= September 3, 2019}}</ref>
* [[A. A. Bondy]], musician and singer/songwriter<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/a-a-bondy-on-track/|title=On Track: AA Bondy |date=24 September 2009 |publisher=American Songwriter, LLC|access-date= July 30, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Carrot Top]], comedian{{Citation needed|date = July 2014}}
* [[The Felice Brothers]], [[folk rock]]/[[country rock]] band<ref>{{cite news|url =http://www.charlestonscene.com/article/20140516/CS/140519668| title=Music Scene: Deer Tick, Johnnyswim, The Felice Brothers| newspaper=The Post and Courier| access-date= July 30, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Rufus Palen]], [[United States House of Representatives|congressman]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url =http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000032|title= PALEN, Rufus, (1807 - 1844)|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= July 30, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Rip Van Winkle]], fictional resident{{Citation needed|date = July 2014}}

==See also==
* [[North–South Lake]] campground

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.townofcatskillny.gov/Public_Documents/index Town of Catskill, New York]
* [http://catskill.lib.ny.us/ Catskill Public Library]

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[[Category:Hamlets in New York (state)]]
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[[Category:Catskill, New York]]