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COUNTY HISTORY
Chautauqua County was formed in 1808 from Genesee County. Available information includes:

• Detailed information on the history of Chautauqua County from the 1824 Gazetteer.
• Detailed information on the history of Chautauqua County from the 1860 Gazetteer.
• Individual Town listings from the 1824 New York State Gazetteer.
• Individual Town listings from the 1860 New York State Gazetteer.

SKETCHES of the HISTORY of CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY by Emory F. Warren, 1846

•   Scanned page images

HISTORY of CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY by Andrew W. Young, 1875
        View the entire contents of this book online - University of Michigan
          Another transcription of the entire book - Nathan Zipfel

• Churches
• Early Banking
• Portland
• Early Settlers: Lot Purchases & Family Histories

1881 CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY ATLAS - transcribed by Sue Gullo & Marsia Painter

• County History
• Personal Notices
• Township Histories

CENTENNIAL HISTORY of CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, 1904

• The Ellery Friends 
• Ellery Stories

BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA, 1891

• Scanned book
  

LEST WE FORGET, 1920

• Scanned book
  

A HISTORY OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, NY AND ITS PEOPLE, 1921

• Volume 1

• Volume 2

• Volume 3
  

TOWN HISTORY

Arkwright

• Arkwright Sesquicentennial - 1955 by John and Evangeline Griswold
• There-A-Bouts: Mills and Dams in Hanover and Arkwright 1804-1930 - 1984 by Ernest F. Donahue
• Town(e) Family of Arkwright � Aaron Town Diaries 1877-1878 � Sheryl Lucas & Nathan Towne
• Arkwright Town 100 Years Old - Grape Belt 1929 - from Nathan Towne
• Chicken Tavern - Dunkirk Evening Observer 1932 - from Nathan Towne
• Chicken Tavern - Buffalo Evening News 1979 - from Nathan Towne

Busti    

Carroll

• Harry Saxton & Early Kennedy History

Charlotte    

Chautauqua    

Cherry Creek

• Pioneer Residents Extracted from Historical and biographical sketch of Cherry Creek

Clymer    

Dunkirk    

Ellery

• Long Point, Ellery
• Ellery Stories, 19?? from the Jamestown Newspaper

Ellicott 
EARLY HISTORY of the TOWN of ELLICOTT by Dr. Gilbert W. Hazeltine, 1887

• Our Country's Defenders
• Prendergast Academy & "Juty" Smith
• Quaker School & the Murder of Mrs. Cornell

• Holley Day Book, 1819-1822

Ellington    

French Creek

Gerry    

Hanover

• ONCE UPON A TIME by Marion Thomas, 1976

• Silver Creek, 1948 Lake Shore News Supplement for the 100th anniversary of Incorporation.
  All Articles &  Photos from  the Supplement are available.

• Blue Eagle Tavern, 1978

• There-A-Bouts: Mills and Dams in Hanover and Arkwright 1804-1930 - 1984 by Ernest F. Donahue

• Grove L. Heaton stories about Hanover from Douglas H. Shepard
  

Harmony

Jamestown
JAMESTOWN PAST and PRESENT, 1913

• Oldest Streets in the City

Kiantone    

Mina    

North Harmony

Poland    

Pomfret

• Greene Shoemaker Ledger, Doug Shepard, 1872-1873
  

Portland

•    Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland, H.C Taylor, 1873.
  

Ripley    

Sheridan    

Sherman

Stockton

• Barefoot 25 Miles, 1886  (Wendy Straight, having come from Richard Hunt of Laona, 2011)

Villenova    

Westfield
PORTAGE TRAIL HANDBOOK

• The Button Family

NEWS & MAGAZINE ARTICLES

• Destruction of Forestville, 1870
  
• Old Settler's Reunion, 1873
• B47 Plane Crash into Wright Peak of Adirondacks, 1962
• Dr Storms Plane Crash [1, 2], and obituary, 1963
• Early Home Textile Production, 1982
• Family Century Farms from the Jamestown Post-Journal

E-BOOKS (Books On-line)

• Books On-line at the Digital Book Index - a great link provided by Yvelle Zak, Elkridge, MD

Updated 15 DECEMBER 2017