Perryville Falls is a privately owned tall waterfall near Perryville, New York, on the

Canaseraga Creek Canaseraga Creek is a stream that flows through Livingston, Steuben, and Allegany Counties in western and central New York. It is a tributary of the Genesee River, and its watershed is the largest sub-watershed of that river. The creek's name ...

Description

The falls are approximately tall and are located on the

southeast of Chittenango, New York, near the towns of

Sullivan, New York Sullivan is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 15,339 at the 2010 census. The town is named after General John Sullivan. The Town of Sullivan is located in the northwestern corner of the county. History ...

Lincoln, New York Lincoln is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 2,012 at the 2010 census. The Town of Lincoln is in the north-central part of the county. History The town was established in 1896 from a division of the Town of ...

, and

Fenner, New York Fenner is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 1,726 at the 2010 census. The Town of Fenner is in the north-central part of the county. The town is east of Cazenovia Lake. History The area was settled around ...

, as well as Perryville, New York. It is about northeast of

Chittenango Falls Chittenango Falls State Park is a state park located in Madison County, New York, east of Cazenovia Lake. The park features a waterfall that cascades over roughly 400-million-year-old bedrock. At the bottom of the falls Chittenango Creek flows ...

History

A visitor wrote in an 1871 sketch that "No one with any love of nature can afford to stop here without visiting Perryville Falls, for nature is generous in her wild and grand gifts." In 1890 a Justin explosive cartridge was tested at the falls in a rifle. In 1922 the '' American Journal of Botany'' reported that the area around the falls held populations of ''

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''. By 1966 they were described in '' The Post-Standard'' as "one of the few high falls not taken over by the state." In 1970 an eighteen year old man was seriously injured when he fell off a ledge on the falls. Such injuries became increasingly common throughout the 1970s; by 1977 nine people had injured by falling in the past decade and the falls were a common site of teen partying, underage drinking and

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. On May 4, 1977, the Sullivan town board voted to mark the area off with 'no parking' and 'no trespassing' signs and close an access road after multiple requests to do so by town residents.

References

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