Tag: Trumansburg
Trumansburg is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States. The population was 1,797 at the 2010 census. The name is a variant spelling of the surname of the founder, Abner Treman. (The family routinely spelled it several different ways.) The village’s application for a post office preserved one of them.
The Village of Trumansburg is within the Town of Ulysses and is northwest of Ithaca, New York.
The village is located in the former Central New York Military Tract.
The village was originally named “Tremaine’s Village,” after an early settler, Abner Tremaine (Tremain, Treman or Truman), who was granted the land for his service in the American Revolutionary War. The village was built around a cascade on the creek that provided power for grain mills.
In the 19th century Trumansburg was dominated by Col. Hermon Camp, an officer in the War of 1812 who settled in what was to become the village. For many years he was the local postmaster, and founded a bank, now the Tompkins Trust…
