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Buffalo Cemeteries, An Account of the Burial Places of Buffalo
From the Earliest Times
Read Before the Buffalo Historical Society, February 4, 1879
by WILLIAM HODGE
Pub. Bigelow Brothers, Buffalo, N.Y.; 1879

  [10-11]

                         THE BIDWELL FARM BURYING GROUND
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        There was a place on what was known as the "BIDWELL Farm" where the
     dead were buried before the "Guide Board Road" (or North street)
     ground above mentioned was opened. It will be of interest to say, just
     here, that the "Guide Board Road" spoken of above and on page 8, was
     in the early days, the only wagon approach to Black Rock from the
     eastward; communication with Buffalo being mostly by the way of the
     beach of the lake, until Niagara street was opened, about the year
     1809; a guide post stood for many years at the southwest corner of
     Main street and this road, pointing the traveler's way to the aspiring
     village of Black Rock; hence the name of the road. The BIDWELL farm
     was situated on the old "Gulf Road," answering to what is now Delevan
     avenue. This road crossed Main street just south of the bridge over
     CONJOCKETY creek, and passing east, in a few rods crossed the creek
     bed, or gulf, and from this circumstance obtained its name. The farm
     lay quite a distance west of Main street, back of the village of Black
     Rock, and in the burial place here set apart, interments were made
     from 1811 to 1825.

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