WAVERLY  , a

village of Tioga county, New York, U.S.A., about 18 m . S.E. of Elmira, on the Cayuta Creek, near the Chemung and the Susquehanna rivers, which unite several miles S. of the village . Pop . (1890) 4123; (1900) 4465, of whom 295 were foreign-born; (1905) 4915; (1910) 4855 . It is served by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Erie and the Lehigh Valley railways . With South Waverly (pop. in 1.910 ro84)—separated from Waverly only by the state line and really a part of the village—Sayre, and Athens, Pennsylvania, it is connected by electric railway and the three form practically an industrial unit . Waverly is also connected by electric line with Elmira . The village is a railway centre of some importance, distributes coal from the Wyoming Valley mines, and ships the dairy products of a large farming district and small fruits and garden products . Waverly was settled about 1804 by settlers from Connecticut and the Hudson River Valley, and was incorporated as a village in 1854 .