Washingtonville is a village in the town of Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York, United States.

In 1809, John Jaques, a boot and shoemaker, set up his shop in this tiny settlement of nine houses, then known as "Little York."

Its earliest known inhabitant was an Indian by the name of Moringamus, whose wigwam or tepee was once pitched in back of where the Coleman bottled-gas plant is located now.

Samuel Moffat built a trading post on the village square in 1811 at the junction of the New Windsor and Blooming Grove Turnpike with the Goshen Road.

The same year Samuel and John Jaques bestowed the village with a new name, Washingtonville, in honor of the late general and first president of the United States.

George Washington was said to have come through and watered his horse at the trough which had been located under an elm tree in the center of the village.

Washingtonville grew after 1850, when the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway built its branch through the village.

Incorporated in 1895, the village had become an important dairying center where two creameries, Borden's (later used as a bus garage for the Washingtonville Central School District) and the Farmers Cooperative Market on South Street, several groceries, a bank, feed and lumber dealers, wagon shops, furniture makers and a hub shop all prospered.

Borden's Creamery maintained a bottling plant and its refrigerator cars, loaded with milk, were shipped to Greycourt (Harriman) on either the Erie freight or passenger runs.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.54 square miles (6.6 km2).

Little Britain was adjacent to Stewart Air Force Base, and was only for children whose parents were in the military.

Prior to this the police department was stationed out of a small booth located in the center of the Village.

Today the department consist of 20 full and part time officers as well as 4 dispatchers / clerks and 1 crossing guard.

The village police dog is named Jax, after John Jaques founder of the Brotherhood Winery.