CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY 



This county lies in the southeastern pari of the state, the state 

 of Pennsylvania bordering it on the south and west and Lake Erie 

 lying on the north. It has an area of 684.160 acres; from north 

 to south it extends approximately 37 miles, and from east lowest 

 32 miles. The population is shown in the following table: 



Population by Cities and Towns 



(Census of 1915) 



Dunkirk (city) . . 

 Jamestown (city) 



Arkwright 



Busti 



Carroll 



Charlotte 



"Chautauqua 

 Cherry Creek . . . 



Clymer 



Ellery 



Ellicott 



Ellington 



French Creek 



Gerry 



Hanover 



17,870 



37,780 

 843 

 2,351 

 1,714 

 1,308 

 3,933 

 1,630 

 1,341 

 1,876 

 5,216 

 1,317 

 941 

 1,194 

 6,465 



Harmony 

 K iantone 



Mina 



Poland . , 

 Pom fret 

 Portland 

 Ripley . . 

 Sheridan 

 Sherman 

 Stockton 

 Villenova 

 West field 



Total 



3,072 



641 



1,021 



1,442 

 7,535 

 3,352 

 2,482 

 2,077 

 1,732 

 1,830 

 1,148 

 4,707 



116.818 



* Mayville, in the town of Chautauqua, is the county seat. 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



Chautauqua County was formed from Genesee in 1808. Its 

 name is from the Seneca word meaning " one has taken out 

 fish there." It is probable that the first white man to reach this 

 part of the country was Stephen Brule, the interpreter for Cham- 

 plain, who visited this section in 1615. Not many Indian settle- 

 ments were then located within the present county limits. After 

 the Revolution, however, it became the home of the Senecas, who 

 were under the control of the very able and just war chief, Corn- 

 planter. It has been said that this famous chief "belonged to the 

 region as did Robin Hood to Sherwood Forest." 



In 1802 Greneral Paine, agent for the state of Connecticut, 

 opened a wagon road from Buffalo to Chautauqua Creel to enable 



Note : Dunkirk has at present a population of 19,300, and Jamestown, 

 38.900. 



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