ACRA, New York 12405
Located in Green County, New York.
It is a hamlet west of Cairo. Acra has a populations of 454.
This village lies along the Mohican Trail to the northwest of
Cairo village and has a wide view of the surrounding country and the Catskills.
The first church was the Presbyterian, a few years later sold to the Baptist.
Its first inn or tavern was built by Moses Olmsted, and its first store by
Joseph Lyon.
John Howell, a friend of Judge Daniel Sayre, and great-grandson of
Edward Howell, founder of Southampton, came to Green County in 1794, bought a
farm and built the Howell homestead on the road from Acra to Centerville, and
was founder of the First Presbyterian church in Acra, in 1795. He died in 1815,
aged seventy-one years. His wife
Mehitable died three years later.
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