Port Dickinson, New York

Port Dickinson is a village in Broome County, New York, United States.

It takes its name from having once been a prosperous port on the now-extinct Chenango Canal, and in honor of United States Senator Daniel S. Dickinson.

The Bevier-Wright House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

It is bordered on the west by the Chenango River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, and on the east by the Canadian Pacific Railway, beyond which is additional unincorporated land in the town of Dickinson.

An earth levee along the Chenango River and Phelps Creek and the channel excavation of Phelps Creek in 1943 by the US Army Corps of Engineers helped reduce the devastation that was brought on by earlier floods of the Susquehanna River basin.

In 1949, the US Army Corps of Engineers excavated a 1,300-foot (400 m) pilot channel and removed foundation pilings along the Chenango River.

34.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The Jeanne and John D. Wilfley Community Park is a reclaimed flood plain adjacent to the Chenango River.

However, in 2000, with the news of Mayor Wilfley retiring, the village renamed the park in his honor.