Lyons Falls, NY

Lyons Falls is a village in Lewis County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 570 residents. The village is on the border of the towns of West Turin and Lyonsdale. Lyons Falls is at the junction of state Routes 12 and 12D, approximately 14 miles south of Lowville, the county seat. A newcomer can read Lyons Falls through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Lyons Falls comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The village was at the northern end of the Black River Canal, when it was completed in 1858. The Forest Presbyterian Church, Gould Mansion Complex, and The Pines are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The village is situated at a 70-foot waterfall on the Black River, which flows northward through the village and is joined from the east just above the falls by the Moose River.