Welcome to Hillside ...
Although we found mention of Hillside during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Hillside was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
While we are confident that Hillside was located in Columbia County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Hillside to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Hillside - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Hillside, please Contact Us.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Hillside might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time
Communities Also Named Hillside ...
While we believe that this Hillside is located in Columbia County, we know of another 4 New York communities named Hillside. Those communities are located in the following counties: Bronx, Oneida, Queens and Ulster County.
Beyond New York, there are 55 communities that are also named Hillside - they are located in Arizona, Arkansas, California (2), Colorado (2), Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois (2), Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky (2), Louisiana, Maine, Maryland (3), Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nova Scotia (3), Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania (5), Quebec, South Carolina (3), South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas (2), Utah (2), Washington and Wisconsin (3).
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Hillside.
Adding Hillside to Our Gazetteer ...
Our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Hillside was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
We also found Hillside on a map titled Rand McNally Map of New York (1897).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Hillside on our Genealogy Page.
Other Roadside Stops ...
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Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Columbia County: www.columbiacountyny.com/
The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Hillside and then turned east". While Hillside could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Hillside as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Hillside could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |