Gazetteer and Business Directory of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. For 1874-5 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Gazetteer and Business Directory of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. For 1874-5 (Classic Reprint) written by Hamilton Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gazetteer and Business Directory of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. For 1874-5 The Philadelphia Quakers established a mission on the Alle gany Reservation, in the present town of South Valley, as early as 1798. The first permanent settlement was made at Olean, by Major Adam Hoops and his brother Robert, from Albany, in 1804. For many years a large share of western emigration was made by the Allegany River and Pittsbur h, and being at the head of boat navigation upon the river, O can speedily became a place of importance. Upon the completion of the Erie Canal travel was diverted from this route and improvements advanced very slowly. The completion of the Erie and other railroads has done much toward developing the resources of the county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.