History:

On February 17,1802, the Town of Verona was formally established from a part of the Town of Westmoreland. At that time there were 102 families. A part of the Town of Westmoreland, the hamlet of Verona was then known as Hand's Village named for Captain Ichabod Hand, who had a public house there. No one seems to know how or when the village became known as "Verona".

The Erie Canal dissects the town. Many small communities grew up along its banks, among them Durhamville, State Bridge, Dunbarton, Stark's Landing, Verona Landing, Higginsville, Stacy Basin, Grove Springs and New London. It was in these places that the canallers found general stores, hotels, blacksmith shops, dry docks and other facilities to accommodate their life style. There were glass factories in both Durhamvilie and Dunbarton. A large and well known health spa was located on the present Spring Road in Verona hamlet. It was here that well-to-do clients came for the "water cure". Some for a week or two, others for the entire season.

At the present time, the Town of Verona is basically a bedroom community with citizens of the town finding employment in nearby Rome, Utica, Syracuse and until it closed at Oneida Ltd., in Sherrill. In the late 1960's there where 106 dairy farms in operation and in 2004 only 6 remain as productive dairy farms. All of the others have closed and much of the land sold as building lots or bought by the Oneida Indian Nation.

The Town of Verona is served by two fine school systems, the Oneida City Schools, as well as the Vernon, Verona and Sherrill School system.
There are active Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist and Catholic churches, as well as numerous fraternal and cultural organizations in the town.

The Town is also served by fire departments in several of the hamlets that make up the town.