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===European settlement=== French explorer [[Étienne Brûlé]] was probably the first European to visit the area, meeting with the Susquehannocks and travelling down the Susquehanna River in 1615. In the wake of the [[Beaver Wars]] of the mid-Seventeenth Century, the area came firmly under the control of the [[Iroquois]], until the [[Sullivan Expedition]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] broke their power. The [[Battle of Newtown]] (August 29, 1779), the only major battle of that expedition, occurred approximately {{convert|13|mi|km}} west of the current location of Waverly. John Shepard was one of the more prominent early white settlers, buying {{convert|1000|acre|ha}}, including all of what would become Waverly, and building a mill on the banks of [[Cayuta Creek]] in 1796.<ref name="tiogahistory.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tiogahistory.org/Site/Barton.html|title = Barton}}</ref> The settlement would soon become known as Milltown, just across the border in Pennsylvania. A second mill site on the creek north of the border would soon be known as '''Factoryville''', now East Waverly. An adjacent smaller community named Villemont also became established. At the beginning of the railroad age the community began to thrive. From 1849 to 1851, the [[Erie Railroad#New York .26 Erie Railroad|New York & Erie Railroad]] reached the vicinity, opening a rail connection eastward to [[New York City]] via [[Binghamton]], and westward to [[Lake Erie]] via [[Elmira, New York|Elmira]]. In 1854, Waverly was incorporated as a [[Administrative divisions of New York#Village|village]].<ref name="tiogahistory.org"/> Waverly increased its viability and became an important railroad junction, when construction of the [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]] from [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]] reached northward to this village in 1869 and effectively linked both railway operations. This also helped spur the economic development of Waverly's southern neighbor [[Sayre, Pennsylvania]], home to Lehigh Valley Railroad's locomotive yard and shops. At the height of the railroad age, approximately 41 trains entered the village per day and the population of the village was nearly triple what it is today.
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