Alton, New York

Alton is a hamlet in the Town of Sodus in Wayne County, New York, United States. Located at an inland crossroads approximately 6 miles (10 km) southeast of the Village of Sodus, the community developed in the early nineteenth century as agricultural settlement expanded into the interior of western New York following the Revolutionary War.

By the mid-nineteenth century, the hamlet functioned as a local service center for surrounding farms, supporting mills, religious congregations, and small mercantile establishments. Alton lies near the historic Ridge Road corridor and south of Sodus Bay, a natural harbor on Lake Ontario that shaped regional trade and transportation patterns. Just northeast of the hamlet is the former Shaker agricultural site later known as Alasa Farms, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.