Village of Liverpool Clerk Archival Records Listing

The Village of Liverpool was established in 1830. It is approximately 1 square mile. Liverpool is in the heart of Central New York and is on the shore of Onondaga Lake. Natural brine springs run along the lake and have attracted generations of people who followed the game trails. Civilization was made up of mainly the Iroquois Indians as far back as 1500. The Canadian French Jesuits came in 1656 and set up short-lived missions. After the Erie Canal and the Oswego Canal were built, Liverpool became a port town of Yankee settlers, Irish canal workers, and a later wave of German immigrants. In the year 1931, after the 1918 closing of the Oswego Canal, Onondaga Lake Park was built and occupies much of the abandoned canal bed. When you visit Liverpool, you will be reminded of its heritage by the19th century buildings, which still stand today.