The Settlement of Knapp Creek

The Settlement of Knapp Creek, formerly known as Knapps Creek, was a genuine boomtown in the early days of the Bradford Oil Field, beginning about 1877. It was on a narrow gauge railroad and later an electric street car line. ...

In Memory of Those From Ellicottville

In Memory of Those from Ellicottville who served in World War I and World War II and especially the following who paid the supreme sacrifice

Egbert L. Barnhard •

William N. Burton •

Douglass D. Dineen •

Alton G. Eastman ...

Ellicottville Town Hall

Ellicottville, Cattaraugus County, N.Y.

was entered on the National Register of Historic Places

April 4, 1973

Marker is on Jefferson Street just north of West Washington Street (New York Route 242), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Evelynn M. Crandall

First woman to serve as a Chautauqua County Legislator

Evelynn M. Crandall

Elected from District 7

Years of service 1978-1981 & 1984-1989

Remembered for her dedication to local history

Marker is on Jamestown Road (U.S. 62) just west of ...

Kennedy Mills

First commercial enterprise in southeastern Chautauqua County

Doctor Thomas Ruston Kennedy built first mill October 1805 after purchase of 3000 acres in the area which became the Town of Poland

Marker is on Frewsburg Road (U.S. 62) 0.2 miles ...

Gertrude A. Williams

First woman justice of New York State Gertrude A. Williams

Years of service 1920 to 1924

Site of her former residence where she held court.

Marker is on Frewsburg Road (U.S. 62) just north of Grubb Hill Road, on ...

Old Ridge Road

Molded by the great glacier and long an Indian trail. Traveled by pioneers' oxcarts, covered wagons, stagecoaches. Town of Greece founded 1822.

Marker is at the intersection of West Ridge Road (New York Route 104) and Long Pond Road on ...

This Column Stands on Union!

Daniel Webster

In the years following the battle, this hill became sacred ground. A new patriotic spirit swept the nation in the 1820s. Americans looked to honor the sacrifice and service of their ancestors. For two decades, many men and women, ...

Hojack Railroad

Opened as Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg RR, 1876. Fruit shipments by rail made Hilton prosper & grow. Last train ran March 31, 1978.

Marker is at the intersection of East Avenue and Railroad Avenue on East Avenue.

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Women's Rights National Historic Park - Hunt House

Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social movement - women's rights.

Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and on front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started ...