Windham, New York, United States

🇺🇸 Windham is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The town has two nicknames: "Land in the Sky" and "Gem of the Catskills". Windham is in the west-central part of the county on the northern boundary of the Catskill Park.

History The region was first settled around 1780. The town was formed from the town of Woodstock in 1798 while still part of Ulster County. After the formation of Greene County, several other towns were formed from parts of Windham. These towns include Hunter and Lexington (1813), Prattsville (1833), and part of Ashland in 1848. In 1900, the town's population was 1,240.

In 1937, Camp Highland, a Nazi summer camp for German-American boys, ran at a site near Windham, NY.

The major source of income in Windham is the Windham Mountain ski resort, formerly called "Ski Windham". This ski area brings a lot of its skiers up from the New York City area as well as other areas in the Northeast. In August 2010, Windham hosted the 2010 World Cup Mountain Bike Race, the first time its finals occurred on American soil in 20 years of competition. In August 2014, Windham again hosted the World Cup Mountain Bike Race, as the only US stop of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.

In August 2011, Hurricane Irene dumped more than 10 inches of rain into the Batavia Kill creek in just a matter of a couple of hours in a devastating flood.

Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 45.4 square miles (117.6 km²), of which 45.3 square miles (117.3 km²) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km2, or 0.22%) is water.

The town is in the Catskill Mountains and partly within the Catskill State Park. Batavia Kill, a tributary of Schoharie Creek, flows to the west through Windham.

Communities • Batavia Kill − A stream flowing through the southern part of the town past Maplecrest and Windham. • Brooksburg − A hamlet in the Catskill Park. • East Windham − A hamlet on the eastern town line on Route 23. • Hensonville − A hamlet in the southern part of the town and the location of the town government. It was named after John Henson, a postmaster, having been called previously "Baileys Four Corners". • Mitchell Hollow − A location in the town. • Nauvoo − A location in the town. • North Settlement − A hamlet on the western town line, north-west of Windham village. • Maplecrest − A hamlet in the Catskill Park near the southern town line, originally called "Big Hollow". • Windham − The hamlet of Windham in the south-western part of the town on Route 23. It was originally called "Batavia" until that name was taken for a location in Genesee County, New York circa 1802. It was also called "Windham Centre" and "Osbornville".