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Facts about the city

Elizabethtown is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,163 at the 2010 census. The county seat of Essex County is the hamlet of Elizabethtown, located in the northern part of the town. The name is derived from Elizabeth Gilliland, the wife of an early settler.Elizabethtown is in the east-central part of Essex County. It is 39 miles (63 km) southwest of Burlington, Vermont, 104 miles (167 km) south of Montreal, Quebec, and 117 miles (188 km) north of Albany, New York. The town calls itself the \"Pleasant Valley\".

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History

The lumber industry and processing iron ore were important in the beginning, but tourism became prominent by the end of the 19th Century. The population was 1,315 at the 2000 census. Elizabethtown is a town in Essex County, New York County, New York, United States. Parts of the town were used to form the Towns of Moriah, New York (1808), Keene, New York (1898), and Westport, New York (1815). The town was first settled around 1792 near New Russia.

The official website for the city of New Russia is http://etownny.com.