Elbridge was part of Military Township No. 5 (Camillus) created following the American Revolution and given to veterans in lieu of payment for service during the War for Independence. This tract comprised most of present-day Camillus and all of Van Buren and Marcellus in what is now the County of Onondaga in Central New York's Finger Lakes Region. The Town of Elbridge was formed in 1829 from the Town of Camillus.
The Town of Elbridge includes two incorporated villages: the Village of Elbridge (incorporated in 1848) and the Village of Jordan (incorporated in 1835).
a pioneer family, and receiving as good an education as the inferior schools of that day afforded. When twenty-one years of age he left his home, and with his pack upon his back came to the village of Elbridge. He first engaged in teaching in what is now district Ho. 11, town of Elbridge, at eight dollars per month, and among his pupils were James Rodger, of Jordan, Calvin Mclntyre, and John Cory. Upon the termination of his engagement he went to work in a jiail factory, and ho
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society met at the school house near Squire Munro's, their usual place of meeting up to this time, and voted to build a meeting house in the village of Elbridge, and also adopted a platform and constitution. The first edifice at Elbridge was accordingly erected in 1816. In 1858, it was superceded by the substantial and commodious church edifice now
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