It covers an area of 340 acres. At one time this body of water was a dense wilderness. They notched trees crossing what is now the reservoir, so that his brother who followed could locate them. They later built the old Ensign homestead which was the home of four families, with 3 fire places down stairs , and the same upstairs. The Eaton Reservoir lies partly in this town.
Limestone exists only in the form of boulders.
There are some quarries. The soil is generally a gravely loam, well adapted to the purposes of the dairy industry. The Syracuse and Chenango Valley Railroad crosses the south-west portion of the town, and was completed in 1872, Eriveille being situated on this line. The first merchant was Josiah Hayden who built in 1807 a store later known as George Moore s store. Soon afterward it was used for a school house as Dr. John Herffron taught school there in 1810.