Lisle

History

The area that is now the town of Lisle was first settled around 1791. The town was formed from the town of Union in 1801. Later, parts of Lisle were used to form new towns in the county: in 1831, a division of Lisle into four parts created three new towns: Barker, Nanticoke, and Triangle. John D. Rockefeller's birthplace is located northeast of Lisle by a few miles in Richford, New York and his relatives lived in Lisle. Rockefeller's father lived outside the morals of the Lisle community since he had two wives. One reported original settlement, the Torry Lot, was located approximately within a one-mile radius of the hill on Hotaling's property (the first owner of a piece of the Boston Purchase). There apparently were some disputes with the local Indians, and Hotaling's son was killed by Indians. The original "Torry Lot" settlers burned their possessions and moved because their livestock died, and they deemed the area uninhabitable. The first white settlers around 1791 included Josiah Patterson, Ebenezer Tracy, Edward Edwards, David Manning, Eliphalet Parsons and Whittlesey Gleason. By 1830, Lisle was "congested" and had a population of 4,393 - more than any other town in Broome County. Lisle was a shopping mecca, and the wares produced at the numerous mills were being sold in the thriving "Center Lisle" (originally called Yorkshire). Lisle in 1835 had considerable distinction as a manufacturing town, at that time having in operation three gristmills, twenty sawmills, one oil cloth mill, three fulling mills, three carding mills, one trip hammer or forging mill, three tanneries and two places where potash was made. In January 1918, Florence B. Chauncey became the first woman in New York State to vote, at the Lisle Village Hall. A historical marker commemorating this…

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.19%, is water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  7,278
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  6,414
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  6,348
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  5,727
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  5,183
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  4,976
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  4,743
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  4,670