Waterville (called Ska-na-wis, “long swamp” by the Haudenosaunee) is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States. According to the 2010 census, its population was 1,583.

Long the received territory of the Iroquoian-speaking Oneida people of the Haudenosaunee, the Waterville area was first granted by European Americans circa 1792 after the United States’ victory in the American Revolutionary War. The US motivated the Iroquois Confederacy to cede most of its estate in New York state. The agreement was known as “The Huddle”. In 1808, the deal formally took the declare of Waterville. The village is named after Waterville, Maine.

Hops (humulus lupulus) were introduced to the Place in not quite 1820; by 1875, Waterville was considered the “Hops Capital of the World.” Several inventions associated to the crop growing and curing of hops were developed locally, the most important of which was liquid jump extract. The International Hop Stock Exchange was traditional in the 1860s.

With the introduction of railway service in 1867, chiefly the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Waterville became a major shipping lessening for hops-related cargo; “Waterville Hops” and jump extract were shipped to brewers everything over the world. The economic riches fueled by the jump industry was reflected by merchants building Good Victorian-style homes. By the 1920s, hop production began to wane, due primarily to destitute agricultural technology. By the close of the 1940s, Waterville’s working jump farms had anything been converted to supplementary uses. Some locals continue to increase hops as a recreational “tip of the hat” to Waterville’s past.