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Collections relating to history of Wayne County, New York area and the Palmyra, New York. Most of these items are not on the internet and to get access to them go to the Historic Palmyra site, call or email. A small charge is made for any assistance. Highway use records from 1800s; Family bibles from 1790s; Day books from 1800–1900; Erie ...
Reconstructed Smith log cabin. Joseph Smith Sr., his wife Lucy Mack Smith, and some of their children moved from Norwich, Vermont, to Palmyra, New York, in 1816. [5] In 1818 or 1819, the family built a log home near property owned by the estate of Nicholas Evertson of New York City, but did not enter a purchase agreement for the land until a land agent had been appointed in 1820.
The district includes 207 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 7 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object. It encompasses Palmyra's commercial, civic, religious, and residential core. Most of the buildings were built between about 1830 and 1890, and is representative of a quintessential canal town in New York State.
Palmyra (/ ˌ p æ l ˈ m aɪ r ə /) is a town in southwestern Wayne County, New York, United States. The population was 7,975 at the 2010 census. The town is named after the ancient city Palmyra in Syria. The town contains a village also named Palmyra. The town is about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Rochester, New York.
Alvin Smith was born in 1798, the first surviving child of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. [1] During his youth, Smith worked as a carpenter's helper to assist the Smith family in saving up sufficient funds to make a down payment on a farm in Manchester Township, south of Palmyra, New York.
New York State Police have identified the motorcyclist killed Tuesday afternoon after colliding with a pickup in Palmyra, Wayne County.. The motorcyclist - Jeffery S. Wamsley, 62, of Palmyra - was ...