History of Tully
About Our Name - Following the Revolutionary War, the upstate New York area was
organized into Military Tracts. The surveyors were responsible for naming the areas and one
of the assistant surveyors, being a classical scholar and professor at Kings College (Columbia),
assigned names from Roman generals and statesmen and Greek men of letters. Tully is derived from
the middle name of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (Jan.3, 106 - Dec. 7, 43 BC) was Rome's most famous orator, lawyer,
and statesman, and achieved the highest political distinction by serving as consul in 63 BC.
His numerous essays, speeches, and letters have exerted an enormous influence upon subsequent
ages from ancient times to the present.
The first white settler was David Owen, who build a log cabin in 1795, and the first Annual
Town Meeting was held on April 4, 1803. By 1860 the population exceeded one thousand. Our
current population (2000 census) was 924 in the Village of Tully (0.6 sq. miles) and 2,709 in
the Town of Tully (25.9 sq. miles).
Prehistoric Beginnings - About 350 million years ago, the Tully bedrock was mostly
silty and sandy clay at the bottom of a shallow sea. This sea bottom also included some limy
layers that were destined to become known as the Tully Limestone. The great glaciers, beginning
about two million years ago, shaped the major features of Tully's current landscape, widening
and deepening the pre-glacial trending in a southwest direction, and forming deep "new" valleys
cutting across the original ones.
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