WYOMING COUNTY 



Wyoming County lies in the western part of the state halfway 

 between Lake Ontario and Pennsylvania. It has an area of 

 384,640 miles. The approximate length from north to south is 

 24 miles, and from east to west 26 miles. 



The population is distributed as follows: 



Arcade 



Attica 



Bennington • . 



Castile 



Covington . . . 



Eagle 



Gainesville . . 

 Genesee Falls 



Java 



Middlebury . . 



POPUXATTON BY TOWNSHIPS 

 (Census of 1S15) 

 2,479 Orangeville . 



2,911 

 1,757 

 2,440 



981 

 1,169 

 2,475 



661 

 1,636 

 1,485 



Perry 



Pike 



Sheldon 

 Warsaw* . . , 

 Wethersfield 



Total . . . 



905 

 5,841 

 1,076 

 1,752 

 4,545 



895 



33,028 



•Warsaw, in the town of Warsaw, is the county seat. 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



This county was formed from Genesee in 1841, and named 

 from Wyoming in Pennsylvania. This is an Indian name sig- 

 nifying " on the large plain." The eastern tier of towns with 

 the exception of a portion of Castile belong to certain tracts of the 

 Morris reservation, and the remaining parts of the county to the 

 Holland Land Purchase. The Gardeau tract, containing 17,927 

 acres, lying on both sides of the Genesee River, was reserved for 

 Mary Jemison, or the " white woman," as she was commonly 

 called. This celebrated woman, who. was captured and adopted 

 by the Indians, lived for about seventy years at Gardeau, a few 

 miles below what is now Letchworth Park. 



Previous to the Revolution the tide of immigration had started 

 westward from the New England states. During that war it was 

 checked, but soon after its close, settlement of the present Wyo- 

 ming County had begun. 



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