The population was 2, at the census. The village is named after Morgan Lewis , an early 19th-century governor of New York. The Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park lies at its southern border. Lewiston is situated on the Niagara River , just across the river from Canada. Over a roughly 12, year span, the falls have eroded nearly seven miles south from Lewiston to their present location in Niagara Falls , creating the seven-mile long Niagara Gorge.
Lewiston lies halfway between the world-famous Niagara Falls and historic Fort Niagara in Youngstown. Niagara Falls is approximately a ten-minute drive to the south. Several other festivals, such as the Harvest and Hops Festival, take place during the year.
Various cultures of Native American tribes inhabited the Lewiston area for thousands of years, with the earliest known artifacts dating to B.
By the 14th century, Iroquoian -speaking peoples inhabited the area. Before the midth century, they had coalesced into the Five Nations, the historic Iroquois tribes of the Haudenosaunee based in present-day New York.
In the early 18th century, they were joined by the Iroquoian Tuscarora from the South, who centuries before had migrated from the Great Lakes area to North Carolina. In , the Iroquois accepted the Tuscarora as the Sixth Nation of the confederacy.
