Group Information- Members: 28
- Category: New York
- Founded: Sep 9, 2005
- Language: English
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To share information on the Town of York, Livingston County, New York
French's Gazetteer of New York State, 1860
YORK---was formed from Caledonia and Leicester, March 26, 1819. A part of Covington was annexed in 1823. It lies on the W. border of the co., N. of the center. Its surface is undulating, with a general inclination to the E. Brown and Calder Creeks flow E. through the central and N. parts. The soil in the center and S. is a clay loam, and in the N.E. part a sandy and gravelly loam. York Center (York p.o.) contains 4 churches and 321 inhabitants; Fowlerville (Inverness p.o.,) in the N.E. part, 2 churches, a machine shop, and 369 inhabitants; Griegsville, (p.v.,) in the S. part, a church and 22 houses; Piffardina, (Piffard p.o.,) in the S.E. part, on the G.V. Canal, a church and 23 houses. Settlement was commenced in the N.E.part, by several Scotch families, about the year 1800. The first church (Scotch Ref.Presb.) was formed in 1816
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