Editing Port Byron, New York (section)

== History ==
Settlers began arriving around 1797. Originally known as "King's Settlement", then Bucksville, finally, the name was changed to Port Byron in 1825 as it became a port on the [[Erie Canal]]. It has been suggested that the new name may have been chosen in reference to [[Lord Byron]], the English romantic poet who had died the previous year, however there is no definitive proof of this.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.portbyronhistorical.org/village-of-port-byron.html|title=Lock 52 Historical Society of Port Byron {{!}} Historical Society of Port Byron New York|website=www.portbyronhistorical.org|language=en-US|access-date=July 28, 2017}}</ref> Later, when the canal route was changed in 1856, the village was a railroad town. The village was incorporated in 1837.

The [[Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1998.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>
The New York Central Railroad named a Sleeper car after the town.