49-706: Tom or Thomas Bradley may refer to: Politics [ edit ] Thomas W. Bradley (1844–1920), U.S. Representative from New York State and Medal of Honor recipient Thomas J. Bradley (1870–1901), U.S. Representative from New York State Tom Bradley (mayor) (1917–1998), Mayor of Los Angeles, California, 1973–1993 Tom Bradley (British politician) (1926–2002), British Member of Parliament and trade union leader Religion [ edit ] Thomas Scrope (died 1491/2), or (de) Bradley, English bishop, Bishop of Dromore and Assistant Bishop of Norwich Thomas Bradley (priest) (1596/7–1673), Anglican clergyman, chaplain to
98-455: A humid continental climate , and tends to be significantly cooler than Manhattan , especially at night. As of the 2020 Census , there were 6,818 people living in 2,466 households in the village, giving it an average household size of 2.76. The population density was 3,325.6 inhabitants per square mile (1,284.0/km ). There were There were 2,671 housing units, at an average density of 1,302.9 per square mile (503.1/km ). The racial makeup of
147-402: A brief block in the center of town. Most traffic from outside the area comes in via Route 208 from the south due to its exit on Interstate 84 about five miles (8.0 km) south of the village, as well as its intersection with paralleling NY 17K at Scotts Corners three miles (4.8 km) to the south. County routes 23 (River Road) and 75 (Coldenham Road) connect to 17K at Montgomery to
196-561: A call and alone, in the face of a heavy fire of musketry and canister, went and procured ammunition for the use of his comrades. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Walden, New York Walden is the largest of three villages of the town of Montgomery in Orange County , New York , United States. The population
245-564: A children's section of the local Josephine-Louise Library. Two state highways and two county roads serve Walden. Route 52 crosses the town from east to west, providing connections to Newburgh , 12 miles (19 km) in the former direction and Pine Bush , the Shawangunks and the Catskills in the latter. NY 208 crosses from north to south, with the nearest settlements in each direction being Wallkill and Maybrook , respectively. The two share
294-569: A few decades after it began, and people in the village sought to replace the mills with a different source of employment. The village began encouraging knife manufacturers to relocate from nearby Dutchess County to vacant mills. In 1856, the New York Knife Company moved to an idle cotton factory in Walden. The company would go on to make much of the cutlery employed by the Union Army during
343-501: A personal friend of Thomas Wilson Bradley of the U.S. Knife Company, pushed through the Dingley Tariff that restored the status quo ante . The knifemakers returned to profitability and were able to pay off their debts; and in gratitude Bradley had a statue of McKinley erected that remains in Walden today. Throughout the early 1900s, the village experienced a period of substantial growth. Dense mixed-used development flourished in
392-488: A success. By the 1820s, his mill became a notable regional producer of cotton and woolen cloth . Wool-makers followed as the Industrial Revolution picked up steam and the growing population center became known instead as Walden's Mills. The area became a significant local producer of woolen products by the 1840s. In 1855, Walden was formally incorporated as a village . Most of Walden's wool industry failed
441-461: Is another popular draw for out-of-town shoppers due to its long history in the area and reputation for quality merchandise. National and regional chain stores once had little presence in Walden beyond two filling stations along the 52/208 section of Main Street, but in the last decade the amount of convenience stores has doubled. Outside of jobs at the enterprises in the village, most residents work in
490-812: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas W. Bradley Thomas Wilson Bradley (April 6, 1844 – May 30, 1920) was a United States Representative from New York and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor . Born in Yorkshire, England , Bradley immigrated to the United States in 1846 with his parents, who settled in Walden, New York . He attended school until nine years of age, and then began working for his family's business,
539-417: Is the village hall and the main square. East Main Street, the section of 52 from the 208 junction to the village line, has seen many newer businesses locate there, including a small strip mall. There is also some scattered commercial presence along Orange Avenue (208 south of the junction), primarily professional office space. This parallels the village's remaining industrial presence along the railroad line to
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#1732868955563588-615: Is water. The village's most notable geographical feature is the Wallkill River , which flows from the south to the north across the village and divides one-third of it from the rest. Within the eastern portion, Tin Brook , the Wallkill's major right tributary in New York, meanders across as well, forming part of the northern village boundary. There are two waterfalls and dams on the river within
637-583: The New York National Guard with the rank of lieutenant colonel , later receiving promotion to colonel . Bradley was a member of the New York State Assembly (Orange Co., 1st D.) in 1876 ; and a delegate to the 1892 , 1896 and 1900 Republican National Conventions . Bradley was elected as a Republican to the 58th , 59th , 60th , 61st and 62nd United States Congress , holding office from March 4, 1903, to March 4, 1913. Bradley
686-603: The U.S. Civil War . After the war, other knifemakers came to Walden. In the 1870s, the Walden Knife Company set up a factory in the village, and Schrade Cutlery built a factory in Walden in 1904. The village soon became colloquially known as "Little Sheffield" and "Knifetown". During this time, rail service arrived to Walden, facilitating passenger service and increased mobility for local manufactured goods. Other industrial concerns, making products as diverse as engines and women's underwear , also set up shop. In
735-418: The Wallkill River . One miller, Jacob Walden, was so successful the village that incorporated in the mid-19th century took its name from him. Later, it would be the village's three knife manufacturers that brought it growth and prosperity. They are gone today, but other industrial concerns remain. The first Europeans began to arrive in the region around the 1650s, and began establishing permanent settlements in
784-469: The village manager , who serves at the board's pleasure. Walden has had this system of government since 1964. A 1972 referendum to return to a strong-mayor system was defeated. The village has its own police force, which provides 24-hour protection for residents; a public works department which maintains roads, water and sewer lines; a skate park in Bradley Park which was built in fall 2006 due to
833-435: The 2022 American Community Survey five-year estimate, Walden has a median household income of $ 76,724, and a mean household income of $ 85,463. The median income for families in the village is $ 103,672, and the mean income for families is $ 106,984. 17.6% of Walden's population and 13.2% of Walden's families are below the poverty line . 22.9% of people under 18 years old, and 19.9% of people 65 years old and over live below
882-750: The King Thomas Earnshaw Bradley, British founder of the Catholic periodical The Lamp in 1846 Literature [ edit ] Thomas Bradley (physician) (1751–1813), English physician and editor Tom Bradley (author) (born 1954), American novelist and essayist Sports [ edit ] Tom Bradley (baseball) (born 1947), American Major League baseball player Tom Bradley (American football coach) (born 1956), American football coach and former player Places [ edit ] Tom Bradley International Terminal , an airport terminal at Los Angeles International Airport named after
931-545: The New York Knife Company, as a "shop boy." Bradley enlisted in the Army from Walden in August 1862, advanced to become a sergeant , and later received a commission. After the Battle of Chancellorsville , he was promoted to captain and became the aide-de-camp to Major General Gershom Mott , 3rd Division, II Corps . He later received a brevet promotion to major of Volunteers. Bradley
980-523: The Walden Fire Department and Police Station until 1994 when the Fire District moved to a newly constructed firehouse at 230 Old Orange Avenue, near the edge of the village. Since then, the police station on the ground floor has grown from a tiny office and a few cells to nearly encompassing the entire ground floor. Fire department meeting rooms on the second story have been converted since then to
1029-559: The Wallkill River, with plans to develop a manufacturing settlement along the River. He convinced some of his business partners to finance the construction of wool mills on the river, attracted by the Great Falls as a source of power and the railroad connections at nearby Maybrook . He dammed the Wallkill above the falls, creating a power station that remains in use today, and his mill was
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#17328689555631078-470: The Wallkill at the northern village line. Walden's growth began near the mills and later the knife-making plants, particularly the New York Knife Company, located on the steep east bank of the river just south of the Veterans' Memorial Bridge; the building's footings are still visible on the slope. The central business district of the village is today a few blocks to the east, along Main Street. Just to its south
1127-526: The above mayor See also [ edit ] Tom Brady (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Bradley&oldid=1190773233 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1176-422: The area by the early 18th century. The area around present-day Walden was purchased in 1736 by Alexander Kidd, and settlers of Scots-Irish , English and German descent started arriving not long afterwards. It was the first settlement west of the Wallkill River, known at the time as Kidd's Town. In 1813, an entrepreneur from New York City named Jacob Treadwell Walden began purchasing land on both sides of
1225-572: The area. The nearby interstate and its associated "Golden Triangle" (with the New York State Thruway / I-87 and NY 17 (the future I-86 ) provide many jobs in transportation and distribution , particularly at Maybrook's Yellow Freight facility and the large Staples warehouse just north of I-84. Local government agencies, and some state ones such as the Department of Correctional Services , also employ residents. More recently, residents of
1274-442: The construction of the New York State Thruway system and Interstate 84 , downtown businesses struggle to compete with car-oriented retail centers throughout the region. Throughout the 1990s, the village was the subject of an ongoing joke by a disc jockey at the nearby WPDH-FM radio station , who would constantly joke about Walden being a poor, redneck , and inbred town. Some villagers interviewed by The New York Times on
1323-538: The early 1890s, President Grover Cleveland lowered tariffs on many imported goods, including knives. Competitively priced German cutlery began to flood the American market, and together with the Panic of 1893 and the economic slowdown that followed for several years, the knife companies and their owners went heavily into debt and it looked for a while as if they might not survive. But in 1897 President William McKinley ,
1372-742: The east, which at its northern terminus abuts downtown to the southeast. Walden's other major commercial area is the Thruway Markets complex located along the river north of Oak Street, just south of the remains of the Walden Knife Company. On the southern side of the village is the Fox Hill Bruderhof Community where about 250 community members live and work in their factories and the Plough Publishing House . There are two schools, public Walden Elementary School on Orchard Street and Most Precious Blood Catholic school near
1421-568: The entire big box sector, long before it existed in the country at large. While it eventually drove smaller stores from Main Street, it remains a substantial part of the village's tax base and a major draw for consumers from outside not only Walden but the Town of Montgomery (particularly the nearby hamlet of Wallkill, which has no large retailers of its own), despite the openings of chain supermarkets in several nearby communities. The Thruway complex also boasts an outdoor-recreation store, tire-repair shop and
1470-532: The matter claimed the long-running joke hurt their civic esteem, and even real estate values in the village. From 1995 until 2016, Walden was the headquarters of the Big Apple Circus . According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km ), of which 2.0 square miles (5.2 km ) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km ) (3.9%)
1519-523: The newer housing have been commuters traveling to jobs in New York City or other areas close to it. As a village of the Town of Montgomery, Walden residents are taxpayers and electors in both. The village has seven elected officials, a village board consisting of the mayor and six nonpartisan trustees, per the New York State Village Law. Most of the executive functions are handled by
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1568-467: The northern village line along Ulster Avenue. The village includes public parks and a walking trail. Much of the remainder of the village is residential, with houses tending from modest and small near downtown, the river and railroad, to more expansive homes (such as the Victorians along the west side of Ulster Avenue) being found on the hills, newer development near the southwestern and eastern borders with
1617-613: The oldest of the village's three Chinese restaurants. In 2013, Thruway's owners closed the supermarket and hardware store after selling that space to the Maine-based Hannaford supermarket chain. Building of the new Hannaford supermarket is complete. The Ace hardware store has also since reopened. While vacant space remains on Main Street, specialty stores and restaurants have managed to thrive there. Millspaugh Furniture, founded in Walden (but with another outlet in Poughkeepsie ),
1666-419: The ongoing complaints from older residents about all the skateboarders, a recreation department which maintains several parks within the village, including one with a pond in which swimming is permitted; and a village court presided over by an elected justice. Fire protection is provided for the village and surrounding fire district by the Walden Fire Department. The Village Hall, pictured left, housed both
1715-564: The poverty line. For 95 years, Walden was the home of Spence Engineering, a steam regulator manufacturer founded by Paulson Spence in 1926. He located his manufacturing facilities in Walden to serve the district steam heating loops in the northeast, especially ConEd in New York City. In 2019, Emerson Electric purchased Spence Engineering, ultimately moving it to Mexico in 2021 to improve their profitability. The knife making plants are also gone, but other light-industrial concerns remain along
1764-403: The rail spur. The growing service sector is most strongly represented by two regional banks, Walden Federal and Walden Savings Bank, are based in the village (though the latter has moved to new headquarters at Scotts Corners, the 17K/208 intersection). Retailing has long been a strong point for the village. The opening of Thruway Markets in 1955 filled the need not only for a supermarket but
1813-474: The southwest and the hamlet of Coldenham to the southeast, respectively. The remaining spur of the old Wallkill Valley Railroad , now operated by Norfolk Southern , serves several businesses in the village and ends just short of East Main Street. There have been suggestions that commuter rail service via the Metro-North Port Jervis Line , where the spur connects at Campbell Hall , currently
1862-400: The town, and 6 small apartment and townhouse complexes. A large tract along the river south of the power station had remained undeveloped until very recently. A small area between McKinley Avenue, South Mountgomery Street and the river remains open, used for NYSEG's purposes. On the other end of the village, the sewage treatment plant is also in the middle of an undeveloped area. Walden has
1911-604: The village is, correspondingly, gentle rolling hills of this section of the Great Appalachian Valley between the higher rises of the Shawangunk Ridge , visible to the west from some sections of the village, and the Hudson Highlands to the southwest. The highest elevation is roughly 520 feet (160 m) above sea level along Overlook Road at the village's western boundary; the lowest is 260 feet (79 m) along
1960-562: The village limits, known as the Great and Little Falls; and two auto bridges, the "high" (formally, the Walden Veterans' Memorial Bridge , which carries NY 52 through the village as West Main Street) and " low " (Oak Street) bridges). The Wallkill passes through a small gorge between the two dams and loses approximately 60 feet (18 m) of elevation in the process. The surrounding topography in
2009-439: The village was 77.3% white , 13.7% African American , 2.9% Native American , 3.1% Asian , 0.2% Pacific Islander , 15.8% from other races , and 12.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 23.4% of the population. Per the 2022 American Community Survey five-year estimate, the majority of Walden's Hispanic or Latino is of Puerto Rican origin, whom account for 11.7% of Walden's total population. Of
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2058-565: The village's downtown , often taking form of residences above shops. Single-family homes also proliferated throughout the village, typically on relatively small lot sizes. During this time, numerous government buildings were constructed. In the 1910s the facilities at the dam began to be primarily used for power and less for industry. Walden's Main Street was the site of an active retail trade which included Millspaugh's Furniture as well as Roosa's Jewelers, both still in business. Lustig's Department Store, established by Carl Lustig in 1883,
2107-415: The village's 2,466 households, 1,121 (45.5%) comprised married couples living together, 10.3% were cohabiting couples, 15.8% were male householders with no spouse, and 28.4% were female householders with no spouse. 23.1% of Walden's population was under 18 years old, and 12.9% was 65 year old and over. The median age was 36.2 years old. Walden has a sex ratio of 108.5 females per 100 males. Per
2156-511: Was 6,818 at the 2020 census. It has the ZIP Code 12586 and the 778 telephone exchange within the 845 area code . Walden is part of the Kiryas Joel − Poughkeepsie − Newburgh , NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York − Newark − Bridgeport , NY- NJ - CT - PA Combined Statistical Area . The precursor to the village began in the early 18th century as a mill town along
2205-594: Was a member of the board of directors, vice president and president of the Walden National Bank. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Columbus Trust Company and the Walden Savings Bank. Bradley was employed by the New York Knife Company for more than 50 years, and rose through the company's ranks to become president and treasurer. Bradley died in Walden, New York , at age 76 and
2254-553: Was interred there in Wallkill Valley Cemetery. He received the Medal of Honor for actions on May 3, 1863, at the Battle of Chancellorsville . Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company H, 124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment . Place and date: At Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Entered service at: Walden, N.Y. Born: April 6, 1844, England. Date of issue: June 10, 1896. Citation: Volunteered in response to
2303-482: Was the last company making knives in the village, and closed down its factory after a fire. It continued production in Ellenville until 2004. The ruins of the factory still stand behind the Thruway Markets hypermarket . Apart from knifemaking, Walden became a regional center for the garment industry from the 1930s through the 1950s. As car dependency increased in the region during the late 20th century, aided by
2352-476: Was the mainstay of Main Street until its closing in 1986. The Depression was hard on many of the village's economic concerns, but the knifemakers persisted. However, after World War II they gradually became less prominent and moved as the rail connections they had depended on were replaced by trucking on the growing Interstate Highways . In 1957, Schrade Cutlery (renamed to Imperial Schrade) closed down its factory, and moved to nearby Ellenville . Schrade
2401-613: Was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg , the Battle of the Wilderness , and the Battle of Boydton Plank Road , and was mustered out with his regiment in June 1865. After the war Bradley was active in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and other veterans organizations and reunion societies. Bradley also continued his military service as assistant inspector general of
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