CATTARAUGUS COUNTY 



This county lies in the southern tier, and, with -the exception of 

 Chautauqua, is the most southwesterly county in the state. It 

 has an area of 859,520 acres. Its extent from north -to south is 

 approximately thirty-four miles, and from east to west thirty- 

 eight miles. The population according to the census of 1915 is 

 shown in the following table: 



Oloan (city) . . . 

 Salamanca (city) 



Allegany 



Ashfonl 



Carrolton 



Cold Spring .... 



Conewango 



Dayton 



East Otto 



Elko 



Ellicottville 



Farmersville . . . 

 Franklinville . . . 



Freedom 



Croat Valley . . . 



Hinsdale 



Humphrey 



Ischua 



Leon 



Population by Cities and Townships 



(Census of 1916) 



17.92.-) "Little Valley ... 



Lyndon 



Machiaa 



Mansfield 



Xapoli 



Now Albion 



Olean 



Otto 



Perrysburg 



Persia 



Portville 



Randolph '. 



Red House 



Salamanca 



South Valley . . . 

 Yorkshire 



8,370 



3,356 

 1,624 



1,260 



722 



1,142 



1,770 



1,062 



302 



1,844 



976 



3,174 



1 . 1 •_' 1 



1,513 



1,090 



62.-> 



775 



'.12:. 



Total 



1,836 



549 



1,575 



867 



783 



2,152 



1,324 



8.°.!) 



1,123 



1,800 



2,455 



2,578 



700 



414 



497 



1 ,639 



72.756 



Little Valley, in Hub town, is the county seat 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 

 Cattaraugus County was formed from Genesee in 1808. The 

 name is of Seneca origin, signifying "where oozed mud falls." 

 The territory was included in that ceded by the Six Nations to 

 the Holland Land Company. The first white settlement was 

 made in 1798, when the Philadelphia Quakers established a mis- 

 sion in the present town of South Valley. For three years these 



— Olean has at present «, - m of 20,500, and Salamanca, 



9,000. 



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