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Afton is a village in Chenango County, New York, United States. The population was 822 at the 2010 census. [2] The village is named after the poem "Sweet Afton" by Scottish poet Robert Burns, referring to the River Afton in Ayrshire, Scotland. The village of Afton is located in the town of Afton and is northeast of Binghamton.
Middle Bridge – A hamlet northeast of Afton village, located on County Road 39 on the south side of the Susquehanna River. Nineveh – A hamlet at the town line on NY-7. Nineveh Junction – A hamlet in the southwestern part of the town. North Afton – A hamlet near the northern town line and north of Afton village on NY Route 41. It ...
Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Afton in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 11 contributing buildings. All but one of the buildings are two or three story commercial blocks built between 1868 and 1900. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
Afton developed in this part of the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory after the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, or Frisco) built tracks through the area to Vinita in 1871. Regarding the town name, Oklahoma historian George Shirk states that a Scottish railroad surveyor, Anton Aires, named the town ...
The village of Afton, formally organized in 1858, was situated on two main travel routes in early Minnesota: the St. Croix River and the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road. The town's first hotel was built in 1856 but it was completely destroyed by a fire in 1861. Six years later Charles C. Cushing built this hotel on the same site.
Afton (/ ˈ æ f t ə n / AF-tən) [4] is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,886 at the 2010 United States Census . [ 5 ] It lies on a small bay where Valley Creek empties into the St. Croix River , several miles north of its confluence with the Mississippi River .
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Now in the town of Afton, NY 41 passes under Interstate 88 (I-88) just south of an intersection with County Route 26 (CR 26). The highway turns northeast, paralleling I-88 into the village of Afton. [3] In Afton village, NY 41 connects to I-88 by way of an eastward extension of Maple Avenue.