618    SENECA    COUNTY.

so gradual that nearly every part is arable. The streams are all small. Near the center of the town
is a cranberry swamp, occupying about 800 acres. The soil is a gravelly loam intermixed with clay.
Bearytown, (Fayette p.o.,) upon the line of Fayette, in the n.e. part, contains 3 churches, a
steam sawmill, stave factory, and 128 inhabitants, of whom 51 are in this town. Romulus
(p. v.) lies on the s. border. East Varicfe (p. o.) is a landing upon Cayuga Lake. MeDnffie
Town is a hamlet in the s. e. corner. Tai’icli is a p. o. The first settlement was made by
James McKnight, in 1789.¹ There are 3 churches in town; Bap., Presb., and M. E.

WATERLOO—was formed from Junius, March 26, 1829. It lies on the n. bank of Seneca
Biver, n. w. of the center of the co. The surface is almost one unbroken flat. A marsh extends e.
and w. through the town s. of the center, and another occupies the n. e. corner.² The bed of Seneca
Kiver, on the s. boundary, is almost level with the general surface. The soil is muck and clay
in the n. and e., gravel along the sr. border, and a sandy loam in the center and w. Waterloo,
(p. v.,) on Seneca Kiver, near the e. border of the town, was incorp. April 9, 1824. It is a station
upon the N. Y. C. R. R. and upon the Seneca Canal. A fall of 24J feet in Seneca River furnishes
an excellent water-power, which is mostly improved. It is a half-shire of the co., and contains the
courthouse, 6 churches, the Waterloo Union School, a bank, a large shawl factory,³ 3 distilleries, 2
malt houses, 3 flouring mills, 5 sawmills, 2 founderies and machine shops, 2 oil mills, and nume¬
rous other manufactories.⁴ Seneca River above the falls, being seldom frozen, is navigable through¬
out the year. This village is an important depot of lumber from the s. w. cos., and of coal from the
Susquehanna and Blossburg Mines. Pop. 3,050. South Waterloo, formerly called “Schoyes
is on the opposite side of Seneca River, in Fayette. Settlement was commenced by John Greene,
from R. I., in 1789.⁵ The first religious services were held about 1816.®

Acres of Land, Valuation, Population, Dwellings, Families, Freeholders, Schools, Live
Stock, Agricidtural Products, and Domestic Manufactures, of Seneca County.