Wawayanda, NY 10973

Wawayanda is a hamlet of Slate Hill.  Slate Hill was originally known as Brookfield for the brook that nearly surrounds the community.  After the Revolutionary War, when post offices were being established, it was found that there had been a post office first established by the name of Brookfield in Madison County, N.Y., and so another name was given to this one.  At this time the village bacame known as Slate Hill.

The first Town of Wawayanda meeting was held in 1850 in D.C. Hallock's Hotel which was located on what is now the eastern corner of the intersection of Routes 6 and 284.  The hotel bacame Kinney Skinner's store and later, W.T. Green's uptown store until he closed it about 1945.  It now contains offices.  The hotel on the opposite corner was purchased by Dr. Frank D. Myers, Sr. about the turn of the century.  It was the office and home of two generations of Myers family country doctors until it was sold in 1957 to Roy Brundage.  It has remained a private dwelling ever since.