Erie Canal Lock 25 is located off Mays Point Road (CR 105A) in the hamlet of Mays Point.
The town is part of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor. The town was created from the eastern part of the Town of Junius in 1829. James Magee, a prominent physician for many years, came in 1811.
Other early settlers were Asherr Halsey, Lewis Winans, Asa Smith and Caleb Woodworth. The first outside settler, Ezekiel Crane, arrived about 1794. A tract at the hamlet of Tyre was granted to Revolutionary War Colonel James Livingston. The region was in the Central New York Military Tract, reserved for veterans, but a reservation was established at the northern end of Cayuga Lake for natives who returned to the area. Route 414 to the town border have a ZIP Code of 13165 for Waterloo. A small section of addresses west of N.Y. The primary postal district covering the area is ZIP Code 13148 for Seneca Falls. There is no post office in the Town of Tyre. Government offices for the Town of Tyre are located in the new town hall on New York State Route 318 just west of the hamlet of Magee, New York. The Town of Tyre is located in the northeastern part of the county, northeast of Geneva. The town is named after the Lebanese city of Tyre. The population was 1,002 at the 2020 census. Tyre is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States.
