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  History of Lyons, New York, USA

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• The first white settlers, the Featherly and Stansell families, made their way to what was to become Lyons in May 1789.
  
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• In 1796 Charles Williamson gave the settlement the name of Lyons, because the topography was similar to Lyon, France.
  
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• 1811 - The Town of Lyons is formed.
  
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• (Lyons) - Peppermint was the cash crop for many farmers in the mid 1800’s. Hotchkiss, Hale and Parshall are synonymous with the distillation of peppermint oil.
  
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• 1854 - Lyons
  Lyons, a pleasant post-village, capital of Wayne county, New York, situated in the township of the same name, on the Erie canal, and on the direct railroad from Syracuse to Rochester, 44 miles E. by S. from Rochester. It contains a bank, 2 newspaper offices, a fine union school house, which cost...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - The Village of Lyons is incorporated.
  
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  Water Street, Lyons, N.Y.
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•  1888 - Perpetual Motion
  David Jennings, of Lyons, N.Y., who has spent twenty-one years and $30,000 in experiments, claimed on the 30th ult. to have discovered a means of perpetual motion.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  April 7, 1888
  
  
•  1895 - Blizzard - THE STORM STILL HOVERS OVER THE UNITED STATES. IT IS SEVEREST IN THE EAST. TRAFFIC ALMOST ENTIRELY AT A STANDSTILL -- RAILROAD TRAINS BLOCKADED -- BUSINESS PARALYZED -- PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH AT SEVERAL PLACES...
  ...Sixty Miles An Hour.
  Lyons, N. Y., Feb. 9. - The wind is blowing at the rate of 60 miles an hour with no abatement in sight. Apple and onion shippers are growing nervous fro fear their stocks in the cold storage houses will freeze. They are putting in kerosene oil heaters to get the temperature ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Lyons
  Lyons, a post-village, capital of Wayne co., N.Y., in Lyons township, on the Erie Canal and the Clyde River, at the confluence of Canandaigua Outlet with Mud Creek. It is also on the New York Central Railroad, 45 miles W. of Syracuse, and 36 miles E. by S. of Rochester. It contains a fine stone...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1896 - The Hotel Baltzel Burned
  LYONS, N Y, Jan. 8 The Hotel Baltzel, the largest hotel in Wayne county, was partially destroyed by fire. During the fire Josie Fitzgerald of Port Byron, the cook and Lillian Dippy of this place, a dining room girl, jumped from the third story window to the ground, a distance of 40 feet. Miss...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  "Dam", Lyons, N.Y.
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  Methodist Episcopal Church, Lyons, N.Y.
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  Canal Street
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  Electric Light Plant and Race, 1906
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•  1907 - FELL BETWEEN CENTRAL TRACKS
  Lyons Man Escapes Being Run Down by a Train.
  
  LYONS, May 1. - Patrick Murphy, a New York Central engine fire cleaner, had a narrow escape from being ground up by the Fast Mail this afternoon. Murphy had hoed out an engine and was crossing track No. 2 when he happened to see the Fast Mail almost...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  William Street, 1907
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  Bird's Eye View from Elmers Hill
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  Wayne County Court House
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  Evangelist Lutheran Church
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• 1916
  Lyons, a banking post-village, capital of Wayne co., N.Y., in Lyons township (town), on the Erie Canal and on the Clyde River, at the confluence of Canandaigua Outlet with Mud Creek. It is also on the New York Central and Hudson River and the West Shore Rs., 36 miles E. by S. of Rochester. It...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• (Lyons) - In December 1920, the large school on the corner of William and Lawrence Streets burned to the ground, resulting in the death of two students.
  
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