BROOME COUNTY 

 Tliis county is Located in the Bouthern part of the state. Its 

 average extent from north to south i> approximately twenty-five 

 miles, and from easl to weal thirty-five miles. It has an area 

 of 151,200 acres. The population is shown in the following 

 table : 



Population r.v CITIES and Townships 

 (Census of L915) 



Maine 



Nanl icoke 



Sanford 



Triangle 



I fhion 



•Binghamton (city) 



Barker 



Binghamton 



( Ihenango 



( tolesville 



Conk] in 



Dickinson 



Kenton 



Kirkwood 



Lisle 



53,668 



987 



731 



1,273 



2,525 



94'2 

 1,222 

 1,240 



942 

 1.477 



Vestal . . 

 Windsor 



Total 



1,339 

 549 

 2,80. r > 

 1,633 

 L5,236 

 1,688 

 2.384 



90,641 



•Binghamton is the county seat, 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



Broome County was set off from Tioga in 1806 and named 

 for Lieutenant Governor John Broome. Binghamton received 

 its name from William Bingham, the proprietor of a large patent 

 of land. The Susquehanna valley, until after the Delawares had 

 been conquered by the Iroquois, was the frontier territory between 

 these two nations. For that reason there was no permanent 

 [ndian occupation until after the beginning of the eighteenth 

 century, when it was assigned to the Tusearoras. 



During the Revolution the Indian villages in this section, forty- 

 one in number, were destroyed by armies in command of Generals 

 Sullivan and Clinton. The Indians had adopted some of the 

 methods taughl them by the white missionaries and had learned 

 to depend more on agriculture than on hunting. They had not 

 only corn fields, but gardens and apple orchards, and sometimes 

 comfortable houses. The desirability and fertility of the land 



Note: Binghamton has at present a population of ahout 66,000. 



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