WAYNE COUNTY 

 This county lies west of the center of the state on the southern 

 shore of Lake Ontario. It has an area of 383,360 acres. From 

 north to south it extends approximately 19 miles and from east to 

 west 33- miles. The population is distributed as follows: 



Arcadia 

 Butler .. 

 Galen . . 

 Huron .. 

 Lyons* 

 Macedon 

 Marion . 

 Ontario . 

 Palmyra 



Population 



by Townships 





(Census 



of 1915) 





8,184 





2,243 



1,754 





1,639 



4,643 





5,757 



1,681 





2, 308 



6, 195 



Williamson 



3,762 



2,483 



Wolcott 



3,261 



2.435 









2,934 



4,197 



Total 



53,476 



'Lyons in the town of Lyons, is the county seat. 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



This county was formed from Ontario and Seneca in 1823, 

 and named in honor of General Anthony Wayne. The territory 

 now comprising Wayne County formed a portion of the transient 

 hunting grounds of the Cayugas and the Senecas. That part west 

 of the " Xew Pre-emption Line," which formed the eastern bound- 

 ary of the present towns of Sodus and Lyons, was included in the 

 Phelps and Gorham Purchase, and later in the purchase made by 

 Robert Morris. Through the above towns extended the strip 

 of land known as the " Gore," the ownership of which was dis- 

 puted for some years because of what was said to be an error in 

 surveying. (See page 57.) 



The first pioneers of the county, who came from Connecticut 

 and Long Island, settled near the present site of Palmyra. Near 

 this village was the home of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mor- 

 monism; and Mormon Hill, between the villages of Palmyra and 

 Manchester, is designated as the place where the plates containing 

 the Mormon Bible were found. 



The doctrine of spiritualism also had its beginning at Hyde- 

 ville, in the town of Arcadia. 



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