Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Newark, NY

Newark is a village in the Town of Arcadia in Wayne County, in New York's Finger Lakes region south of Lake Ontario.

With 9,017 residents in the 2020 census, Newark is the most populous community in Wayne County and serves as the county's industrial and retail center.

Newark owes its very existence to the Erie Canal: canal contractor Captain Joseph Miller Jr. bought 100 acres in 1820 and laid out the village, which was first called Miller's Basin.

The land was settled beginning in 1819, and the neighboring canal settlement of Lockville — settled around 1805 and named for the original canal's Locks 57, 58 and 59 — incorporated as the Village of Arcadia in 1839 before merging into Newark.

Newark itself was incorporated as a village on July 21, 1853, absorbing Lockville in the merger.

Erie Canal Lock 28B, built around 1913 with a lift of about 12 feet, still operates in the village, and Newark forms part of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.

In 2010 the village had 9,145 residents in 3,842 households.

Newark's population peaked at 12,868 in 1960, in its years as a bustling canal-and-factory village.

The Jackson & Perkins Company, one of America's most famous rose growers, was founded in Newark in 1872 by Albert Jackson and Charles H. Perkins, and its roses made the village a household name among gardeners.