Oniontown, New York

Human settlement in New York, USA

Oniontown-Where No One Seems to Raise or Sell Onions

Oniontown is a road and community^[1]^[2] in Dutchess County, New York, United States, located 1.5 miles south of the hamlet of Dover Plains, in the Town of Dover, partially known for the historically off-putting demeanor of its residents towards outsiders.^[3]

In 1947, International News Service reporter James L. Kilgallen voyaged into Oniontown and wrote three articles about the place including; “Escape from Atomic Age: Real Life Tobacco Road 100 Miles from Broadway”.^[4]^[5]

It was briefly the subject of worldwide media attention in 2008, when a derisive video about the area published on YouTube led to visiting outsiders being attacked.^[6]

References

^ Smith, Aaron Lake (January 23, 2012). "Peeling Oniontown". Vice. Retrieved 2018-11-25. Despite its name, Oniontown isn't an actual town—it's more of a mountainside enclave filled with a haphazard collection of run-down trailers on a dead-end dirt road.
^ Kilgallen, James L. (February 20, 1947). "'So What' Is Psychology of Oniontown". Somerset Daily American. p. 7. Retrieved 2018-11-25. This is the third and final article about that unique community known as Oniontown, N. Y." "No one in the community has money, an education, or...
^ "Oniontown". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ "Clipped from the Tipton Daily Tribune". The Tipton Daily Tribune. 18 February 1947. p. 2.
^ "Peeling Oniontown - VICE".
^ "Teens attacked in Oniontown, N.Y." New York Daily News. Associated Press. July 4, 2008. Retrieved May 9, 2018.