Editing Deposit (village), New York (section)

== History ==
[[File:Deposit, N.Y. 1887. LOC 75694764.tif|thumb|left|[[Perspective map]] and list of landmarks from 1887 by [[L.R. Burleigh]]]]
The position of the village is at the boundary of White and Indian territory, as imposed by the 1763 [[Fort Stanwix]] Treaty. The village was incorporated in 1811 in Delaware County. Deposit is one of only twelve villages in New York still incorporated under a [[Municipal charter|charter]], the other villages having incorporated or re-incorporated under the provisions of [[Village (New York)|Village Law]].<ref name="villagehist">{{cite web|url=http://www.dos.state.ny.us/lgss/pdfs/Handbook.pdf#page=72 |title=Local Government Handbook - Village Government: Historical Development |format=PDF |pages=PDF page 72 |year=2008 |edition=5th |publisher=New York State Department of State |access-date=June 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326101146/http://www.dos.state.ny.us/lgss/pdfs/Handbook.pdf |archive-date=March 26, 2009 }}</ref>

While the [[dairy industry]] is now important, the name of the town is said to derive from its status as a [[lumber]] center, when it was the place at which logs were "deposited" for [[timber rafting]] south on the Delaware River.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=37|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=33}}</ref>