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New York Counties
 Click Image to Enlarge New York CountiesThere are 62 counties in the State of New York. The first twelve counties in New York were created immediately after the British annexation of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, although two of these counties have since been abolished. The most recent county formation in New York was in 1912, when Bronx County was created from the portions of New York City that had been annexed from Westchester County. New York's counties are named for a variety of Native American words, British provinces, cities, and royalty, early American statesmen and generals, and state politicians. |
Lewis County, New YorkLewis County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameNamed in honor of Morgan Lewis, governor of New York from 1804 to 1807 Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryLewis County, was taken from Oneida in 1805, and named in honor of Governor Morgan Lewis. Centrally distant NW. from
New York 275, and from Albany 130 miles. Greatest length N. and S. 54; greatest breadth E. and W. 35 miles. The whole of
this county was included in the patent from the state to Alexander Macomb, and was sold by him to William Constable, and
by the latter in parcels: the portion ~vest of the Black river, to capitalists in New York city, among whom Nicholas
Low, Richard Harrison, and Josiah Ogden Hoffman, were principal purchasers; and the portion on the east of the Black
river, to a French company in Paris. From these sources the present possessors derived their title. The first
settlements commenced here in 1795, by pioneers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, who, with characteristic enterprise
and perseverance, entered the wilderness with a determination to surmount the most formidable obstacles. There were at
this time small settlements at Utica and Fort Stanwix, (now Rome,) whence the settlers made their way into this county,
by a line of marked trees, to the High Falls, on Black river; and thence floated with the stream to the town of
Lowville, where they established themselves. Their families followed in the succeeding winter, shod with snow shoes;
mothers making their way with infants in their arms, whilst their husbands and fathers trod paths through the snow for
their cattle and teams. It was not unusual, some time after, for farmers to go forty miles to mill, and to carry the
grist upon their shoulders. GeographyLewis County is located in northwestern New York State, slightly east of due north from Syracuse. The eastern
part of the county is in the Adirondack Park. A good portion of the Tug Hill Plateau is in the western part of the
county. The county is home to the Black River Valley. Neighboring Counties:
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local.
And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions,
reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history. Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally." |
