Town file
Chadwicks, New York
Chadwicks, New York (Oneida County, New York) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 347, "The Word Of Death" (22 December 2022). Chadwicks is a small census-designated place in Oneida County, central New York, technically part of the town of New Hartford but with an identity of its own, a few miles from Utica.
- Town
- Chadwicks
- County
- Oneida County
- State
- New York
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 347
- Approximate location
- 43.029, -75.271
Episode 347 / 22 December 2022 / 175 min / full
The Word Of Death
"We are going all the way to Chadwicks, New York ... this is in Oneida County" about 0:04:28
The case: Murder of Lucas Leonard (October 11 to 12, 2015). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2022
- Population
- 1,179
- Median age
- 44.9
- Median household income
- $41,406
- Median home value
- $152,600
- Two-bedroom rent
- $776
- Religious
- 51%
- Property crime
- ▼ about one third
- Violent crime
- ▼ about half
History, in brief
- Chadwicks is a census-designated place that is technically part of the town of New Hartford. about 0:06:03
- New Hartford was settled in 1788 by Jedediah Sanger, who had been bankrupted in 1784 when a fire wiped out his farm in New Hampshire. about 0:06:50
- Sanger erected a saw mill and a grist mill, and manufacturing became the commerce of the area. about 0:07:19
- Carpets were made there for a long time; the first ingrain loom in the state was set up by an Englishman named Butterfield. about 0:07:32
- The first cut nails made in the state were produced there, from the iron hoops of wine and liquor casks. about 0:07:49
- There were also tanneries and paper and textile works in the town. about 0:08:02
- A road through the area connected the state from the city to Buffalo until the Erie Canal took the traffic, after which Utica became the big town and this place emptied out. about 0:08:08
- The church building, a former junior high, was built in 1916 and became the Word of Life building in the 1990s. about 0:25:33
The reviews read out
5 stars
"There is no better town in New York to witness the four seasons; full of amazing and friendly people who make you feel welcome, the best place to start a family and grow old."about 0:08:43
4 stars
"The community is mostly aged individuals like wine moms and conservative uncles, but you cannot really complain: the food is amazing and the town is just the right size."about 0:09:18
3 stars
"A relatively quiet town with a neighbourhood watch feel and a good place to raise children, but there is very little to do without travelling to Utica or New Hartford."about 0:09:51
1 star
"Utica has many gangs, so violence and shootings happen almost every day; the reviewer feels safe in New Hartford but not in Utica."about 0:10:38
1 star
"Would be a great church if it were not for the murdering hillbillies; not a recognised non-profit, just a family of murdering hillbillies who bully people into giving them money and doing free labour while cheating the government out of taxes."about 2:42:22
1 star
"Christian extremism claims more lives in America than Islamic extremism; beating a member to death because they wanted to leave the congregation is fanaticism at the worst degree, and this is not a Christian church."about 2:42:42
1 star
"Murderers, and I dare you to come for me, bastards."about 2:42:42
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Otisco, New York50 miles
- Walton, New York60 miles
- Delmar, New York78 miles
- Stillwater, New York83 miles
- Liberty, New York89 miles
- Hillsdale, New York105 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.