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Fredonia, NY
Fredonia is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 9,871 as of the 2020 census. Fredonia is in the town of Pomfret south of Lake Erie. The village is the home of the State University of New York at Fredonia (in the northwest part of the village). Fredonia is one of only twelve villages in New York still incorporated under a charter, the other villages having incorporated or re-incorporated under the provisions of Village Law. History The village that is now Fredonia was most likely first occupied by early Mound Builders, then the Erie people (13th to 17th centuries), then the Iroquois (specifically, the Seneca).Daniel D., ''Architecture in Fredonia, New York, 1811-1997'', p. 26, White Pine Press (1997) () In 1791, Robert Morris purchased the Fredonia land from Massachusetts and sold it to the Holland Land Company. Parcels were sold to pioneers around 1800, and the first settlers came around 1803 or 1804. Among the first settlers included Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village (New York)
The administrative divisions of New York are the various units of government that provide local government, local services in the American New York (state), state of New York. The state is divided into boroughs of New York City, boroughs, counties, cities, towns, and villages. (The only boroughs, the five boroughs of New York City, have the same boundaries as their respective counties.) They are municipal corporations, chartered (created) by the New York State Legislature, as under the Constitution of New York, New York State Constitution the only body that can create governmental units is the state. All of them have their own governments, sometimes with no paid employees, that provide local services. Centers of population that are not incorporated and have no government or local services are designated Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Hamlet, hamlets. Whether a municipality is defined as a borough, city, town, or village is determined not by population or land are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mound Builders
Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning. It does not refer to specific people or archaeological culture but refers to the characteristic mound earthworks that indigenous peoples erected for an extended period of more than 5,000 years. The "Mound Builder" cultures span the period of roughly 3500 BCE (the construction of Watson Brake) to the 16th century CE, including the Archaic period ( Horr's Island), Woodland period ( Caloosahatchee, Adena and Hopewell cultures), and Mississippian period. Geographically, the cultures were present in the region of the Great Lakes, the Ohio River Valley, Florida, and the Mississippi River Valley and its tributary waters. Outlying mounds exist in South Carolina at Santee and in North Carolina at Town Creek. The first mound building was an early marker of political and social complexity among the cultures in the Eastern United States. Watson Brake in Louisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separated from its chaff in preparation for mill (grinding), grinding. History Early history The Greek geographer Strabo reported in his ''Geography'' that a water-powered grain-mill existed near the palace of king Mithradates VI Eupator at Cabira, Asia Minor, before 71 BC. The early mills had horizontal paddle wheels, an arrangement which later became known as the "Norse wheel", as many were found in Scandinavia. The paddle wheel was attached to a shaft which was, in turn, attached to the centre of the millstone called the "runner stone". The turning force produced by the water on the paddles was transferred directly to the runner stone, causing it to grind against a stationary "Mill machinery#Watermill machinery, bed", a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gas Pipeline
A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption. The latest data from 2014 gives a total of slightly less than of pipeline in 120 countries around the world. The United States had 65%, Russia had 8%, and Canada had 3%, thus 76% of all pipeline were in these three countries. The main attribute to pollution from pipelines is caused by corrosion and leakage. ''Pipeline and Gas Journal''s worldwide survey figures indicate that of pipelines are planned and under construction. Of these, represent projects in the planning and design phase; reflect pipelines in various stages of construction. Liquids and gases are transported in pipelines, and any chemically stable substance can be sent through a pipeline. Pipelines exist for the transport of crude and refined petroleum, fuels—such as oil, natural gas and biofuels—and other fluids including sewage, slurry, water, beer, hot water or steam for shorter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadaway Creek
Canadaway Creek is a stream in Chautauqua County, New York, which empties into Lake Erie in Dunkirk (town), New York, Dunkirk, New York. Non-natives settled on the creek first in 1804, in what was first called "Canadaway" and became Fredonia, New York. References Rivers of Chautauqua County, New York Tributaries of Lake Erie {{NewYork-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural Gas
Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium. Methane is a colorless and odorless gas, and, after carbon dioxide, is the second-greatest greenhouse gas that contributes to global climate change. Because natural gas is odorless, a commercial odorizer, such as Methanethiol (mercaptan brand), that smells of hydrogen sulfide (rotten eggs) is added to the gas for the ready detection of gas leaks. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that is formed when layers of organic matter (primarily marine microorganisms) are thermally decomposed under oxygen-free conditions, subjected to intense heat and pressure underground over millions of years. The energy that the decayed organisms originally obtained from the sun via photosynthesis is stored as chemical energy within the molecules of methane and other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eason
David Eason (April 3, 1771 – April 8, 1853) was an American politician, judge, sheriff, and early settler of Chautauqua County, New York. He was the county's first sheriff (1811–1814) and served in both the New York State Assembly (1821–1822) and New York State Senate (1822–1823). Biography Eason was born on April 3, 1771, and was from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and was an early settler of Chautauqua County, New York. He first settled in Canadaway (now Fredonia) in the summer of 1803 and built the first home, a log house, in the village on the bank of the creek. In the spring of 1805, he married Margaret Woodside. In 1806, Eason was elected a Fence Viewer along with George Whitehill and Basil Burgess of the Town of Canadaway. Eason, along with Perry G. Ellsworth, were the first two commissioner justices in 1806. Eason sold his farm to Hezekiah Tower in the winter of 1806–1807 and moved to nearby Westfield and purchased land from John McMahan, who had originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zattu Cushing
Zattu Cushing (June 11, 1771—January 11, 1839) was an American shipbuilder and judge. He was the first settler of Fredonia, New York and the first judge of Chautauqua County, New York (1811―1824). Biography Cushing was born on June 11, 1771, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was the son of Nathaniel Cushing, a shipbuilder, and his wife Lydia Cooke. He worked at a shipyard in Boston. At age 21, he moved to Saratoga County, New York and became a farmer, later moving to Paris Hill on Oneida County, New York. He married Rachel Buckingham. Cushing visited western New York before he settled, purchasing a 306-acre tract of land from the Holland Land Company in what is now the center of Fredonia, New York. He sold his property in New England and brought his family to Western New York in 1805. He purchased an additional 557 acres and built a log cabin. His wife Rachel died in 1816 and he married secondly to Eunice Elderkin. In 1811, Chautauqua County was formed, and he was appointed firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland Land Company
The Holland Land Company was an unincorporated syndicate of thirteen Dutch investors from Amsterdam,Kirby, C.D. (1976). ''The Early History of Gowanda and The Beautiful Land of the Cattaraugus''. Gowanda, NY: Niagara Frontier Publishing Company, Inc./Gowanda Area Bi-Centennial Committee, Inc. headquartered in Philadelphia, who purchased large tracts of American land for development and speculation. Their primary purchase was that of the western two-thirds of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in 1792 and 1793, an area that afterward was known as the Holland Purchase. Additional lands were purchased in northwest Pennsylvania.Chazanoff, pp. 15–17 Aliens were forbidden from owning land within New York State, except by special acts of the New York State Legislature, so investors placed their funds in the hands of certain trustees who bought the land in central and western New York State.Chazanoff, pp. 68–70 The syndicate hoped to sell the land rapidly at a great profit. Instead, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to its south, New Hampshire and Vermont to its north, and New York (state), New York to its west. Massachusetts is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, sixth-smallest state by land area. With a 2024 U.S. Census Bureau-estimated population of 7,136,171, its highest estimated count ever, Massachusetts is the most populous state in New England, the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 16th-most-populous in the United States, and the List of states and territories of the United States by population density, third-most densely populated U.S. state, after New Jersey and Rhode Island. Massachusetts was a site of early British colonization of the Americas, English colonization. The Plymouth Colony was founded in 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Morris (financier)
Robert Morris Jr. (January 20, 1734May 8, 1806) was an English-born American merchant, investor and politician who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and was one of only two people to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States, U.S Constitution; the other being Roger Sherman. From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the "Financier of the Revolution." Along with Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, he is widely regarded as one of the founders of the financial system of the United States. Born in Liverpool, Morris was brought to North America by his father when he was 13 years old, quickly becoming a partner in a successful shipping firm based in Philadelphia. In the afterma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Pine Press
White Pine Press is an American, nonprofit, literary press located in Buffalo, New York, publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and world literature in translation. The press was founded by poet, translator, editor and publisher Dennis Maloney in 1973. Notable authors published by White Pine Press include James Wright, Jacqueline Johnson, Robert Bly, William Matthews, Sonia Sanchez, Christopher Merrill, David St. John, Marjorie Agosín, Matsuo Bashō, Pablo Neruda, and Peter Johnson. White Pine Press titles have been reviewed in venues including ''The New York Times,'' ''Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, '' ''Booklist,'' and many others. The press has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) serves to foster and advance the arts, culture, and creativity throughout New York State, according to its website. The goal of the council is to allow all New Yorkers to benefit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
