Town of Portage - 1827 Livingston County, New York You are the 9452 visitor, since 11/03/97. French's Gazetteer of New York State, 1860 PORTAGE---was formed from Nunda, March 8, 1827. It is the S.W. corner town of the co., Its surface is hilly, the highest point, near Portageville, being about 200 feet higher than the R.R. The Genesee River forms the W. boundary of the town. Its banks are steep and rocky, 100 to 200 ft. high and in many places perpendicular, Coshaqua Creek flows through the E. part. The soil in the E. part is clay loam, and in the W. a sandy loam. Oakland, (p.v.) in the N.E. part, contains2 churches, a grist and saw mill, woolen factory, tannery, furnace, and 35 houses; Hunts Hollow (p.v.) 2 churches, a tannery, and 31 houses. Portage Station, on the B. & N.Y.C.R.R., is on the line of Wyoming co. Settlement was commenced by Jacob Shaver, on Lot 150, in 1810. The first church (Presb.) was formed at Hunts Hollow, about 1820. Cemeteries

Resources TOWN CLERK : Esther Howe, Portage Town Clerk, Hunt, NY 14846 TOWN HISTORIAN : Mary Ransom, 1283 Thompson Rd, Hunt, NY 14846 BOOKS Doty, Lockwood R., A History of Livingston County, New York, Geneseo,NY, E.E. Doty, 1876. Doty, Lockwood R., History of the Genesee Country, Chicago, S.J. Clark Publishing Co., 1925. Smith, James H., History of Livingston County, New York, Syracuse,NY, D.Mason & Co., 1881. CHURCHES Hunts Baptist Church, South Church St., Hunt, NY 14846 (585) 476-2486 LINKS Dansville Community Home Page. FOOTNOTES [PORTAGE] Name derived from the portage or carrying place around the falls of the Genesee River. (back) [in 1810.] Ephraim Kingsley and Seth Sherwood settled oon Lot 169 in 1811; Joseph Dixon, above Portageville. Col. Geo. Williams, Russell Messenger, and Sanford Hunt all settled about 1814. Horace Miller taught the first school, in 1817, The first inn was kept by Prosper Adams, in 1817; and the first store, at Hunts Hollow, by Sanford Hunt, in 1818. Russell Messenger built the first sawmill, in 1816, and the first gristmill, in 1817 (back) [about 1820.] There are 4 churches in town; Presb., Meth.Prot., Prot.E., and Bap. (back)