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Oniontown, New York

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Oniontown Road
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Oniontown mixes myth and modern age
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Oniontown-Where No One Seems to Raise or Sell Onions
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Town Name Origin

Oniontown is a road and community[1][2] in Dutchess County, New York, United States, located 1.5 miles south of the hamlet of Dover Plains, in the Town of Dover, partially known for the historically off-putting demeanor of its residents towards outsiders.[3] In 1947, International News Service reporter James L. Kilgallen voyaged into Oniontown and wrote three articles about the place including; “Escape from Atomic Age: Real Life Tobacco Road 100 Miles from Broadway”.[4][5] It was briefly the subject of worldwide media attention in 2008, when a derisive video about the area published on YouTube led to visiting outsiders being attacked.[6]

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Oniontown is Tobacco Road

References

  1. Smith, Aaron Lake (January 23, 2012). "Peeling Oniontown". Vice. Retrieved 2018-11-25. Despite its name, Oniontown isn't an actual town—it's more of a mountainside enclave filled with a haphazard collection of run-down trailers on a dead-end dirt road.
  2. Kilgallen, James L. (February 20, 1947). "'So What' Is Psychology of Oniontown". Somerset Daily American. p. 7. Retrieved 2018-11-25. This is the third and final article about that unique community known as Oniontown, N. Y." "No one in the community has money, an education, or...
  3. "Oniontown". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  4. "Clipped from the Tipton Daily Tribune". The Tipton Daily Tribune. 18 February 1947. p. 2.
  5. Smith, Aaron (January 23, 2012). "Peeling Oniontown - VICE".
  6. "Teens attacked in Oniontown, N.Y." New York Daily News. Associated Press. July 4, 2008. Retrieved May 9, 2018.

41°43′21″N 73°34′52″W / 41.722515°N 73.581233°W / 41.722515; -73.581233