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Waverly is the largest village in Tioga County, New York, sitting in the town of Barton in the Southern Tier, just southeast of Elmira.

The village got its name from Joseph "Uncle Joe" Hallett, founder of its first fire department, who dropped the second "e" from Waverley, the title of his favorite author Sir Walter Scott's novel.

Waverly was incorporated as a village on January 18, 1854, out of the southwest part of the town of Barton.

The land under Waverly was once a Susquehannock travel and trade corridor near where the Chemung River meets the Susquehanna River; early settler John Shepard bought 1,000 acres here and built a mill on Cayuta Creek in 1796, and the young settlement was known as Milltown and Factoryville.

Waverly became an important railroad junction after the Lehigh Valley Railroad reached it in 1869, and at the height of the railroad age about 41 trains a day entered the village.

Waverly was a regular stop on the Lehigh Valley Railroad's famous Black Diamond Express passenger train.

Waverly has no visible border with its neighbors: together with South Waverly, Sayre and Athens in Pennsylvania it forms the Penn-York Valley, known locally as "The Valley," one continuous community of nearly 30,000 people split by the New York–Pennsylvania state line.

Waverly's population peaked at 6,037 in 1950 during the railroad era and has declined steadily since, to 4,373 at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census Waverly had 4,607 residents in 1,877 households, and the village remains part of the Binghamton metropolitan area.

Waverly's Manoil Manufacturing Company became famous between 1937 and 1941 for its hollow-cast toy soldiers, known as "dime store soldiers," along with toy airplanes and cars.