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Gazeteer of the State of New York
J. H. French, 1860

                             ERIE COUNTY

  [-290-]

        ELMA - was formed from Lancaster and Aurora, Dec. 4, 1857. It is an
     interior town, lying N.E. of the center of the co. Its surface is
     gently rolling, the summits of the ridges being 50 to 100 ft. above
     the valleys. Big Buffalo and Cazenove Creeks flow through the town.
     The soil is a clayey loam in the N. and a gravelly loam in the S.
     SPRING BROOK, (p.v.,) on Cazenove Creek, contains 2 churches and
     several manufactories.(4) Pop. 300. ELMA(5) (p.v.) has several
     manufacturing establishments(6) and 34 houses; and UPPER EBENEZER 27
     houses. The first settlement was made in 1827, by Taber Earlle.(7)
     There are 2 churches in town; Presb. and R.C.

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        (4) 2 sawmills, a shingle and turning mill, 2 gristmills, and a
            tannery.

        (5) Named from a very large elm tree near Elma Village.

        (6) 1 gristmill, 2 planing mills, and a chair factory.

        (7) Timothy Treat, Isaac Williams, Willard and Jas, Fairbanks, and
            Amasa Adams settled in the town in 1830, and Zima A. Hemstreet,
            Abraham Taber, and Jacob Pettengill in 1831. The first birth
            was that of H. Scott Fairbanks, in 1831; the first marriage,
            that of Gould Hinman and Louisa Adams, in 1835; and the first
            death, that of the wife of Isaac Williams, in 1830. The first
            mill was built by ____ Eastabrook, in 1824; and the first inn
            was kept by Taber Earlle, in 1829. Emily Paine taught the first
            school, in 1831.

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