Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Clyde, NY

Clyde is a village in the Town of Galen, Wayne County, sitting on the Clyde River roughly midway between Rochester and Syracuse.

The site had a French trading post and blockhouse before the French and Indian War, and during the American Revolution it was a notorious smuggling spot known simply as 'the Blockhouse.'

Settlement began in 1811 on the south bank of the river, where the community was first called Lauraville, and the north side was surveyed in 1817 by Andrew McNab, a Scottish agent of the Pulteney Estate.

McNab named the river — and the village — after Scotland's River Clyde, which it reminded him of, and he christened the main street Glasgow Street.

Lauraville and Clyde were incorporated together as the Village of Clyde on May 2, 1835.

Clyde is an Erie Canal village: the Clyde River itself was incorporated into the canal's structure, the village lies within the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, and its canal heritage is marked at Lauraville Landing.

Early Clyde industries set it apart from other small upstate villages, including a glass works and a manufacturer credited with developing the first typewriter.

Clyde's Katherine Wykle, mayor from 1937 to 1945, was the first woman elected mayor in New York State.

Men from Clyde served in Company B of the 111th New York Volunteer Infantry, a regiment that suffered the second-highest regimental casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The Smith-Ely Mansion and the village's U.S. Post Office are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.