Wyoming County

Warsaw

Arcade, Attica, Castile, Gainesville, Perry, Pike, Portageville, Silver Lake, Silver Springs, Warsaw, Wyoming (and a whole lot of hamlets)

Established in 1841 from Genesee County.

• Portageville is on the southern tip of Letchworth State Park
  

• Silver Lake State Park

• Wyoming was among the first places to develop a natural gas industry
  

• Wind turbines are installed in Wethersfield
  

• Camp O'Ryan is an abandoned military base, but all the buildings have been demolished
  

• The twenty-first president spent part of his childhood in Perry
  

• Home of Mary Jemison, the White Woman of the Senecas
  

• There was some social unrest back in 1971
  

• Warsaw was home to the first anti-slavery society in the US (1833) and the first anti-slavery political party in the US.

• County Government
  

• Wyoming County on Wikipedia
  

• Demogaphic data
  

• Summary of Data and Trends

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2011-12-15 15:57:32   A lovely place. —RxScabin

2011-12-15 16:11:51   Added some interesting facts and updated another one. —RxScabin