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Welcome to Harrower ...

Harrower is located in Montgomery County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Harrower, you might consider that their post office opened in 1901.

Harrower is 690 feet [210 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Harrower lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Harrower: 518 & 838<3>

Websites for Harrower ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.montgomerycountyny.com/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Harrower, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Harrower ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Harrower.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Harrower. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Harrower.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Harrower. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harrower.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Harrower. See our Newspapers Page for Harrower.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Harrower ...

Looking for more information about Harrower? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Harrower, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Harrower.

Adding Harrower to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Harrower in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Harrower was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Harrower post office opened in 1901. The Harrower post office closed in 1918.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Harrower.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New York's counties, including Montgomery, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Harrower - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 518 code has been Overlayed with the 838 area code. New phone numbers in the Harrower area will be assigned with one of these codes: 518 or 838. As a result, placing a call in the Harrower area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/