Sodom is a hamlet in Putnam County, in the U.S. state of New York.[1]
According to one account, the hamlet was so named on account of the rowdy character of its first inhabitants.[2] A variant name was "Southeast Center", also spelled "South East Centre".[1]
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- ^ a b c "Sodom". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Blake, William J. (1849). The History of Putnam County, N.Y.: With an Enumeration of Its Towns, Villages, Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, Ponds, Mountains, Hills, and Geological Features. Baker & Scribner. p. 292.
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