Lake View, New York
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Lake View, NY (Erie Co.) is a hamlet (but non-census-designated place) about 17 miles south of Buffalo, NY along Lake Erie.
It is bounded by 18 Mile Creek on the south (so named for the distance of its mouth from Buffalo), Pleasant Ave. on the north, Lake Erie on the west and the Village of Hamburg on the east.
Early settlers were Ebenezer Ames, Jacob Schoellkopf and Ebenezer Walden, a prominent Buffalo attorney and mayor who built the Lake View Hotel in 1880 to serve the many traveling salesmen who arrived on the seven daily trains on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (NY Central) to sell their wares in the surrounding countryside. The salesmen (called "drummers") would rent a horse and buggy from the livery stable behind the six-room hotel to make their rounds.
By 1890, two more railroads ran through Lake View - the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickleplate) and the Pennsylvania which brought economic prosperity to the small community. An electric trolley was also built called the Buffalo & Erie to facilitate travel to and from Buffalo and operated until the mid 1930s.
Lake View was the site of the creation by several attorneys from Buffalo of a summer resort colony called Idlewood in 1886, the Lake View Congregational Church in 1889, Lake View School in 1890, the Gatling Land Boom in 1893, the Day Bicycle Factory in 1895, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Churchin 1921 and the Lake View Fire Associaiton in 1923.
During WWII, two young woman named Winifred Stadler and Rita Fierle produced a newsletter called the Lake View Local which was sent to the town's men and women serving their country abroad.
In the late 1950s, the Lake View Community Association produced a cookbook called "The ABC's of Cooking" which contained many favorite tried and true recipes from the town's residents.
[edit] External links
- Lake View Times - Web-Related Resources for Lake View, NY and the Surrounding Area; includes noteworthy events, local links, old photos, community cookbook from the 1950s, a history of the area, maps and information on prominent citizens.
- Eighteen Mile Creek -- A stream that forms the southern border of Lake View and empties into Lake Erie; known for excellent fossil formations.
- History of Lake View - covering the years 1804 to 1924; Written in 1965 by Raymond V. Healy, BS, MS Ed
- Demographics for Zip Code 14085
| Municipalities and Communities of Erie County, New York (County Seat: Buffalo) |
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|---|---|
| Cities | Buffalo | Lackawanna | Tonawanda |
| Towns | Alden | Amherst | Aurora | Boston | Brant | Cheektowaga | Clarence | Collins | Concord | Eden | Elma | Evans | Grand Island | Hamburg | Holland | Lancaster | Marilla | Newstead | North Collins | Orchard Park | Sardinia | Tonawanda | Wales | West Seneca |
| Villages | Alden | Angola | Blasdell | Depew | East Aurora | Farham | Gowanda | Hamburg | Kenmore | Lancaster | North Collins | Orchard Park | Sloan | Springville | Williamsville |
| CDPs | Angola on the Lake | Billington Heights | Cheektowaga | Clarence Center | Eden | Elma Center | Harris Hill | Holland | Lake Erie Beach | North Boston | Tonawanda | Town Line | West Seneca |
| Reservations | Cattaraugus Reservation | Tonawanda Reservation |
