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County history this week

May 11

— 1791 – A monumental real estate transaction: Massachusetts deeded the “pre-emption rights” (the authority to extinguish Native land claims) for all of Western New York to financier Robert Morris.

1897 – Efforts began to drain the Conewango Swamp, changing the landscape forever.

1945 – Carl J. Lundstead and 16 others gathered in Lakewood to establish American Legion Post 1286.

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