Hales Eddy, Delaware County

Hales Eddy is a small hamlet located in the town of Deposit in Delaware County, New York. In an 1885 tourism guide the hamlet was described as being 172 miles from New York City and was “Among the Delaware Highlands. Good fishing and hunting. Splendid scenery. No malaria or mosquitoes.”

As per the History of Delaware County by W.W. Munsell, Hales Eddy “is a hamlet and station on the Erie railroad, near an eddy in the river five miles below Deposit. The name of the eddy and hamlet is derived from Oliver Hale, who went there in 1790 and settled on the John Dickinson place, now owned by Holdridge Thomas. After living here two or three years he removed to the Gilbert Travis place, after Benjamin Jones left, and a few years later moved on to the Trout creek above Cannonsville, where he died. His sons, Oliver and Timothy, "went west."

Today, the small Hales Eddy hamlet, home to the Hales Eddy United Methodist Church, is largely residential, quickly bypassed by the adjacent Route 17.