Ellisburg, NY

Ellisburg is an incorporated town in Jefferson County, New York. The 2020 census counted 3,352 residents. The town is in the southwestern corner of the county and is south of Watertown. Ellisburg is named after early European-American landowners. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Ellisburg, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Ellisburg, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. Among the villages in the town is Ellisburg. The St. Lawrence Iroquoians had villages along the upper St. Lawrence River from the 1300s into the late 1500s. Later these peoples primarily traded with Dutch and English colonists in present-day New York, from Albany west along the Mohawk River.