Lowville is a town in Lewis County, New York, United States. The population was 4,888 at the 2020 census, down from 4,982 in 2010. The town is close the center of the county and is southeast of the city of Watertown. The town of Lowville contains a village along with named Lowville, which is the county seat. The town is named after Nicholas Low, an further on landowner. Low was of Dutch descent, and had emigrated afterward his wife and three small kids from a rural village outdoor Amsterdam in 1778. Despite popular folk etymology, the proclaim Lowville has nothing to reach with its low height or the lowing cattle of the many easy to get to dairy farms.

Settled in 1798 by a company from Westfield, Massachusetts, the town was formed in 1800 from the town of Mexico in Oswego County. In 1803, part of Lowville was used to form the town of Harrisburg. The village of Lowville was incorporated in 1854 and was designated the county seat in 1864, succeeding Martinsburg.

Daniel Kelley, along afterward his six sons, settled in Lowville in 1798, moving from Middletown, Connecticut. With the encourage of others, Daniel put taking place a sawmill and a two-story house. One son, Datus, worked in the mill. In 1867, Datus’ daughter Emeline (Kelley) Huntington wrote: “By a Tiny brook which comes by the side of from the long hills which rise approaching like mountains on either side of the Black River, stands the thesame old mill where Father field the wheat and corn for the country people. Its wheel is dripping and clattering still, doing adherence as faithfully as of old. While the obsolescent miller who ‘picked the stones and calked the gate’ when the mill was new, has laid away his earthly casket in the little burying ground far afield from the approval of the water which is for eternity pouring higher than the mill dam.”

In 1810 Datus married Sara Dean and moved to Rockport, Ohio. Datus and Sara next bought Kelleys Island in Lake Erie (Ohio) and founded the community called Kelley’s Island.