Ellisburg (Town)

Ellisburg (Town of)

The Town of Ellisburg was formed in 1803. Named after early European-American landowners. Among the villages in the town is Ellisburg. Located n the southwestern corner of the county and is south of Watertown.

Early Settlement

(The following excerpt taken from Our County And Its People: A Descriptive Work on Jefferson County, New York; Edited by Edgar C. Emerson, The Boston History Company,1898.)

Ellisburg, as has been mentioned, was first settled by Lyman Ellis in 1797, but soon afterward, during the same year, Caleb Ellis came, and also a company of men engaged by the pioneer to build a saw and grist mill on Sandy Creek, and a dam across the stream. Caleb Ellis's family, Robert Fulton, Elijah Richardson, Hezekiah Pierce, Chauncey Smith, William Root, Vial Salisbury, Isaac Waddle, Abram Wilcox and two men named Thornton came to the town in the spring of 1798.

Communities and locations in the town

Belleville – a hamlet in the north part of the town on NY-289 at County Road 75, next to Sandy Creek; formerly an incorporated village.
Cobbtown – a location southeast of Pierpont Manor.
Cobblestone Corners – a location in the southern part of the town at the junction of County Roads 87 and 89.
Ellisburg - a village near the center of the town, served by NY-289.
Giddingsville – a hamlet on U.S. Route 11 in the northeastern part of the town by Sandy Creek.
Hammond Corners – a location at the junction of County Roads 75 and 78, north of Woodville.
Hossington – a hamlet near the northern town line on County Road 91.
Jefferson Park – a lakeside hamlet northwest of Ellisburg village.
Mannsville - a village in the southeastern part of the town on US-11 at County Road 90.
Montario Point – a lakeside hamlet in the southwestern corner of the town.
North Landing – a hamlet on NY-3 west of Ellisburg village. The Amos Wood House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.[9]
Pierrepont Manor – a hamlet east of Ellisburg village on US-11, first settled circa 1805; birthplace of baseball player Frank Smith.
Rural Hill – a location in the northwest part of the town on County Road 79, named after early settlers, the Hill brothers; once known as "Buck Hill".
Saxe Corner – a hamlet northeast of Ellisburg village.
South Landing – a hamlet southwest of Ellisburg village on NY-3.
Taylor Settlement – a location in the northeastern part of the town on County Road 91.
Wardwell Settlement (or Wardwell) – a hamlet in the northeastern part of the town at County Roads 85 and 91, named after early landowner Colonel Wardwell.
Woodville – a hamlet northwest of Ellisburg village and located on the north branch of Sandy Creek; the community was originally called "Wood's Settlement" after an early pioneer family.