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Plaque commemorating the first settlers in Wayne County: “LANDING OF FIRST SETTLERS In May 1789, Nicholas and William Stansell and John Featherly, Their Wives and Children, Coming From the Mohawk Valley by Water Piloted by Hendrick Wemple, Pioneer Indian Trader Debarked and Tied Their Bateaux to an Elm Tree Which Stood on the North Bank of the Clyde River About Seven Rods East of This Bridge These Three Families Settled on the High Land One Half Mile Directly South of This Spot” Monument erected by the Lyons Civic Club.
- Arcadia
- Butler
- Galen
- Huron
- Lyons
- Macedon
- Marion
- Ontario
- Palmyra
- Rose
- Sodus
- Savannah
- Walworth
- Williamson
- Wolcott
(* Listed on New York State and National Registers of Historical Places)
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