APRIL 15
1791 – Col. Thomas Proctor, a federal Indian negotiator, visited Kiantone.
1814 – New York State's common school system was formally established by law.
1853 – Kiantone's "Spiritualist Springs" was officially dedicated.
1870 – Bathing in the Chautauqua Lake Outlet, geese ...
APRIL 8
— 1879 – Silver Creek Union School organized.
— 1920 – Roger Tory Peterson's "bird epiphany" in Jamestown—start of his lifelong intense interest in birds. He was 12.
— 1964 – J. R. H. Co. incorporated, forerunner of the developer of Cockaigne Ski Lodge in Cherry Creek. ...
March 26
— 1947 - The Ellington Free Methodist Church was dismantled.
March 27
— 1894 - The steamboat Vincent burned in Mayville.
— 1938 - Famed Swiss balloonist Jean Piccard visited Jamestown.
— 1963 - A bomb threat was reported at Dunkirk High School.
March 11
1894 – Chautauqua Lake experienced its earliest recorded ice breakup.
1944 – Mrs. Bertha L. Hamilton left a bequest of half a million dollars to establish a home for “dumb animals” in Ripley.
1983 – The first meeting of Unitarians in Fredonia was held, leading to the ...
March 5
— 1884: A corporation was formed in Ohio to build the Beta Theta Phi clubhouse, Wooglin on Chautauqua Lake.
— 1899: Brooks Memorial Hospital opened in Dunkirk.
— 1949: The last passenger train departed from Mayville.
— 1958: Duplex Manufacturing in Sherman burned down, ...
February 25
— 1870: Albert Root, formerly of Ripley, was killed and scalped in Pine Bluff, Wyoming while attempting to recover stolen cattle.
— 1964: Work was abandoned on Chautauqua County’s deepest well in Ellery, which had reached a depth of 7,692 feet.
February 26
— 1896: ...