LEWIS COUNTY 



This county lies mostly in the valley of Black River, north of 

 the center of the state, and separated from Lake Ontario by 

 Jefferson- and Oswego counties. It covers an area of 812,800 

 acres, extending from north to south 45 miles, and from east to 

 west 32 miles. 



The population of the various townships is shown in the fol- 

 lowing table: 



Population by Townships 



(Census of 1915) 

 2, 972 Montague 



Croghan . . . 

 Denmark . . . 



Diana 



Greig 



Harrisburgh 

 High Market 



Lewis 



Leyden 



Lowville* 

 Lyonsdale . . 

 Martinsburg 



2,116 



2,439 



758 



677 



390 



733 



1,663 



4,104 



1,024 



1,761 



New Bremen 

 Osceola .... 

 Pinekney . . . 



Turin 



Watson .... 

 West Turin . 



Total 



489 

 1,660 



467 



804 

 1,108 



771 

 2,011 



25, 947 



Lowville, in the town of Lowville, is the county seat. 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



Lewis was formed from Oneida in 1805 and named in honor 

 of Governor Morgan Lewis. It lies entirely within the Macomb 

 purchase, and a small part of the John Brown tract is included 

 in the eastern part of the county. 



Many of the stockholders who outlined the first schemes of 

 settlement in this county were persons of wealth, anxious to find 

 a safe asylum from the French revolution then raging, and some 

 of them attempted to establish homes. The class engaged in 

 this enterprise, however, were not the kind to succeed in a forest 

 settlement, and, after two or three years, their beginnings at 

 High Falls, Beaver River, and Carthage were broken up. 



The first settlers in the county who came to remain arrived in 

 1794 from New England and located in Leyden. The fame of 

 the Black River country spread through Massachusetts and Con- 



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