Newark (New York)

Newark is located in Wayne County of the State of New York, about 50 km southeast of Rochester on Erie Canal a Village in the southern part of the Town of Arcadia. with just under 10,000 residents. For administrative unit Village of Newark include some surrounding settlements, including the eponymous for the Town of Arcadia Village Arcadia.

The village was founded in 1819 as Miller 's Basin as a work settlement for the portion of the Erie Canal in today's settlement area; the name comes from Captain Joseph Miller, who was responsible as a subcontractor for this section. The workers' settlement was Lockville few hundred meters away at about the same set up for a different channel section. On July 21, 1853, both settlements came together and made ​​up the administrative unit Village of Newark.