Editing Freeville, New York (section)

==History==
Freeville was in the former [[Central New York Military Tract]]. It was first settled by Daniel White, a Revolutionary War soldier who cleared land along Fall Creek and built a cabin there around 1798; by 1802 White had established a grist mill at the site.
 
In the early 1870s, Freeville was transformed from a quiet mill town into an important regional railroad junction when the [[Southern Central Railroad]] and the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira Railroad (acquired in 1884 by the newly created [[Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railroad]]) extended their lines through the village. Both lines were acquired in the mid-1890s by the [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]], which maintained passenger service at Freeville through the 1930s and freight service until the 1970s.

The Village of Freeville was incorporated in 1887.

[[George Junior Republic]], a youth center, originally called the Freeville Junior Republic, was founded just outside of the village in 1895; the name was changed in 1909.