SANDY CREEK

In April 1803, two men with their families and household goods loaded on ox sleds made their way along the scarcely open State Road through Redfield and Boylston. At a point about opposite the locality he sought, one of the men, William Skinner, plunged into the pathless forest and headed for the bank of Sandy Creek, at the upper end of the present village of Lacona. The other man, Stephen Lindsay, went through Ellisburg, already sparsely settled, and finally stopped on the flat in the extreme northwest corner of the present town of Sandy Creek, about half a mile from the great pond. Other pioneers, members of the Noyes family, settled on the Ridge Road. Originally, Sandy Creek was in the town of Mexico, in the county of Oneida. It was also a part of the survey-township of Rhadamant, or No. 10, in the Boylston tract, and was the property of the heirs of William Constable, among whom H.B. Pierrpont was the principal. By 1825, the people began to think it was more desirable to have a local name for the little settlement where the Salt Road crossed Sandy Creek. Dr. Ayer and Anson Maltby proposed the somewhat pretentious name Washingtonville. Although the inhabitants endorsed it, the name never stuck.


Town & Village Historian
Charlene Cole
1992 Harwood Drive
Sandy Creek NY 13145


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