For many people, myself included, one of the draws to this area was its unique history, and how that history melds with the present to create an inviting sense of place.

Cambridge is fast becoming a destination location for southern Washington County. The Bean Heads Coffee House building is located in the heart of this development, creating a remarkable opportunity for you, that special someone who is eager to recreate their lives in a vital, human-scaled community.

Cambridge NY is a quaint town, there still is plenty to see and do here. There are museums and art galleries, there is art center, Hubbard Hall Projects, where you can take in a critically acclaimed concert or play in a majestic historic opera house, you can visit the New Skete Monastery and their renowned dog training facility, or go to the Nuns of New Skete and experience, simply, the best cheesecake ever- so good it gets delivered across the nation and is even served on Amtrak’s cross-country dining cars!

You can also shop for hand made gifts in the Valley Artisans Market, tour the eight area covered bridges (including Vermont bridges in nearby Bennington), canoe or tube down the famous Battenkill River (did I mention world class fly fishing?) and, while you are here, stay in the many wonderful Bed and Breakfasts, like the Rice Mansion Inn (where you can steep yourself today in a near perfect vision of yesteryear).

To me, one of the most remarkable things about The Cambridge Valley and its environs is the beauty of the human-scale landscapes that the first farmers created by clearing land of stone and tree. The toil and struggle of our ancestors’ graces us today with the gentle aesthetic magnificence of stonewalls and open vistas.

Cambridge is a welcoming, exciting place with a laid back and accessible sense of community.

Although farming gives the community its rural character, it also has one of the top public schools in the Capital District in both academics and athletics. Several internationally known manufacturing companies call Cambridge, NY their home, as do renowned writers, artists and artisans. Cambridge, NY is a place that attracts a very creative class of people who chose to live a simpler, healthy lifestyle.

Freight Yard Restoration Project

Recently, a diverse group consisting of Cambridge area residences along with local organizations, businesses and government have raised almost a million dollars to restore a historic freight yard in the center of the village into a tourist destination. Our village has one of the few intact historic Freight Yards left in the Northeast, the place where the Cambridge Plow and Rice’s seeds were shipped to market on ribbons of steel!

In November 2005, U.S. Representative John E. Sweeney (R-Clifton Park) secured a $600,000 grant for the Cambridge Freight Yard Revitalization Project (FYP), "Our region's has always been an area of rich cultural heritage and economic potential," said Rep. Sweeney. Sarah Ashton, Executive Director of the FYP has secured our designation as an economic development zone with Capital Zone Credits available for those investing in the site. The FYP is also the New York State beta site for a new, environmentally and economically friendly innovative septic system. This will allow businesses to expand with little disruption to the roadways and existing business traffic flow.