Niverville, New York

Niverville is a semi-rural hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in northern Columbia County, New York, United States.

The Niverville CDP includes the hamlet as well as all of the land surrounding Kinderhook Lake, extending east into the town of Chatham.

Located within the hamlet, Kinderhook Lake—originally called Wogasawoochuk or "Big Fish Lake" by the Mohican early Native American inhabitants—provided fertile, peat-rich soil that supported numerous orchards and farms.

The railroad restaurant known as the Van Hoesen House (not to be confused with the Jan Van Hoesen House some 20 miles south in Claverack) has since become the Niverville Pub, serving the area with live music entertainment on a regular schedule.

Lit by colored lights, the amusement park featured two Ferris wheels (one run by steam, the other by electricity), a carousel, a roller coaster, and other rides, as well as live vaudeville performances held in a dancing pavilion, an aquarium stocked with native fish, and a bathing beach alongside the lake's popular boating and fishing activities.

In addition, the Ladies host dinners, banquets, and other fundraisers for the purchase of Fire Department equipment.

[5] The area listed by the U.S. Census as Niverville extends east into the town of Chatham so that it surrounds Kinderhook Lake.

The lake is located along Valatie Kill, a southwestward-flowing tributary of Kinderhook Creek in the Hudson River Valley.

The Van Hoesen House, a.k.a. Kinderhook Station on the Boston & Albany Railroad, as seen in 2005