FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 

 BEGINNINGS OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY — Concluded. 



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COUNTY. 



TOWN. 



FIRST 



SETTLEMENT. 



FIRST 

 SAWMILL. 



BUILT BY. 



Wayne, 



Huron, 



1796 



1809 



Elihu Spencer. 



Wayne, 



Lyons, 



1789 



1800 



John Perrine. 



Wayne, 



Ontario, 



1806 



181I 



Freeman Hopkins. 



Wayne, 



Palmyra, 



1790 



1795 



Joel Foster. 



Wayne, 



Rose, 



1805 



1811 



Elijah Howe. 



Wayne, 



Savannah,* 



1808 



1824 



Royal Torrey. 



Wayne, 



Sodus, 



1795 



1800 



Captain Williamson. 



Wayne, 



Williamson, 



1803 



1806 



Jeremiah Selby. 



Wayne, 



Wolcott, 



1807 



1813 



Elisha Plank. 



Westchester, 



Scarsdale, 



170I 



1668 



William Saxton. 



Wyoming, 



Arcade, 



1808 



1811 



Maj. Moses Smith. 



Wyoming, 



Bennington, 



1802 



1808 



Chauncey Loomis. 



Wyoming, 



Castile, 



1808 



1811 



Robert Whalley. 



Wyoming, 



Covington, 



1807 



1812 



Sprague & Spaulding. 



Wyoming, 



Eagle, 



1808 



1811 



Amos Huntley. 



Wyoming, 



Gainesville, 



1805 



1809 



Wheelock Wood. 



Wyoming, 



Genesee Falls, 



1804 



1815 



Mumford, Smith & McKay. 



Wyoming, 



Middlebury, 



1802 



1809 



A. Worden. 



Wyoming, 



Orangeville, 



1805 



1810 



Robert Hopkins. 



Wyoming, 



Pike, 



1806 



1809 



Eli Griffith. 



Wyoming, 



Sheldon, 



1804 



1806 



AVilliam Vary. 



Wyoming, 



Wethersfield, 



1810 



1812 



Calvin Clifford. 



Yates, 



Barrington, 



1800 



1806 



William Cummins. 



Yates, 



Benton, 



1789 



1790 



Dr. Caleb Benton. 



Yates, 



Italy, 



1793 



1795 



Asahel Stone, Jr. 



Yates, 



Jerusalem, 



1789 



1795 



Daniel Brown. 



Yates, 



Middlesex, 



1789 



- 



John Walford, Jr. 



Yates, 



Potter, 



1788 



1792 



Arnold Potter. 



Yates, 



Starkey, 



1800 



1807 



Timothy Hurd. 



*The stream, Crusol Creek, upon which the first sawmill was built, diminished, as the forests about 

 its sources disappeared, so that in about twenty years the mill lost its power. There is now no water 

 power afforded by any stream in the town. 

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