page_title: Warsaw, New York
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Warsaw, New York / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 650 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2
context_page_description: Warsaw is a town in Wyoming County, in the U.S. state of New York. The population was 5,064 at the 2010 census. It is located approximately 37 miles east southeast of Buffalo and approximately 37 miles southwest of Rochester. The town may have been named after Warsaw, Poland.
  The Town of Warsaw is centrally located in the county and contains a village, also called Warsaw. The village is the county seat of Wyoming County.
context_section_description: The Town of Warsaw was founded in 1803 from the Town of Batavia (in Genesee County).  In 1812, part of Warsaw was used to form the new town of Town of Middlebury.  Again in 1814, Warsaw was reduced to form the Town of Gainesville.
caption: Perspective map of Warsaw from 1885 with list of landmarks by L.R. Burleigh. Inset image of Warsaw Salt Cos. Works
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