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History
Chemung County was formed from 520 square miles of Tioga County in 1836. In 1854, Chemung County was divided and 110 square miles became Schuyler County, reducing Chemung to 410 square miles, its current size.
In the late 1870s, the Greenback Party became prominent in Chemung and nearby counties in western New York. Here it was primarily allied with labor in a critique of capital, reaching its peak in 1878, the year following the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Scranton General Strike in Pennsylvania. There were also strikes that year in Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo, starting with the railroad workers. In Steuben and Chemung counties, Greenbackers were elected to county councils in 1878 instead of Democrats, and others were elected from there and nearby counties to the state legislature, gaining votes of more than 25 percent in several of the Southern Tier counties. It gradually declined after that, due to internal dissension and the strength of the two major parties.
Adjacent Counties
- Schuyler County
- Tompkins County
- Tioga County
- Bradford County
- Tioga County, Pennsylvania
- Steuben County
Cities, Towns & Villages
- Ashland
- Baldwin
- Big Flats
- Catlin
- Chemung
- Elmira (County Seat)
- Elmira Heights
- Erin
- Horseheads
- Millport
- Southport
- Van Etten
- Veteran
- Wellsburg
Links
National Register. of Historic Places
Chemung County Library Genealogy Collection
