Piermont

Piermont is the name of two places in the United States of America:

Not to be confused with Piedmont

Piermont, New Hampshire

Piermont is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Located within the Lebanon Micropolitan Statistical Area, the population of Piermont was 790 at the 2010 census. It is home to Camp Walt Whitman and Kingswood Camp for Boys.

History

Incorporated by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1764 and settled in 1768, the town takes its name from Italy's Piedmont. It had 426 residents in 1790, the year of the first census.

Aaron Lane, who grew up in Piermont, was the first permanent settler in the Mojave Desert area now known as Victorville, California. A biography of Lane sheds light on life in Piermont during the mid-19th century.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.8 square miles (103 km²), of which 38.5 sq mi (100 km²) is land and 1.3 sq mi (3.4 km²) is water, comprising 3.34% of the town. It is drained by Indian Pond Brook, Eastman Brook and Bean Brook, tributaries of the Connecticut River, which forms the western boundary. Piermont's highest point is the summit of Piermont Mountain, at 2,717 feet (828 m) above sea level.

Piermont (Erie Railroad station)

Piermont Railroad Station is a historic train station located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1873 by the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, later acquired by the Erie Railroad. It is a 1 ¹⁄₂-story, light frame building above a stone foundation. It features Stick Style exterior siding and a Late Victorian interior.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

The station is owned by the Village of Piermont. It is maintained by the Piermont Historical Society which has raised funds for and completed a structural and exterior restoration. The restoration included replacing the missing cupola and roof support timbers. Exterior paint colors were selected based on a period newspaper article describing the then new station. Interior renovations are underway. The station is open to the public on selected dates.

An earlier station at Piermont, no longer in existence, was located on the Piermont Branch, which was originally the main line of the New York and Erie Railroad opened in 1841. It was located on the east side of Piermont Avenue about 200 feet north of Paradise Avenue. As early as 1868 it had only one passenger train a day in each direction.