History of Cattaraugus County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 115

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District No. 6, Simon Carpenter, commissioner, beginning at the forks of the Cattaraugus Creek, and running west- wardly on the south side of said creek to the town line of Samuel G. Sutton's land, and running up the creek to the town line near William Felch's.

District No. 7, John Haling, commissioner, beginning at the bridge near the house of James Coys and running eastwardly to the town line.

District No. 8, Warren Worden, commissioner, the road from Isaac K. Williams' to the creek near Hall's Mills, to west line of Archibald Randall's land, on lot 8, township 7, range 5.

District No. 9, Isaac Williams, commissioner, beginning at the west line of Archibald Randall's land, and running eastwardly to the east line of the town ; also, the road from the northeast corner of Benjamin Felch's land north to the creek road; and also a road from the house of Isaac H. Williams to the creek near Hall's Mills.

District No. 10, Daniel W. Cheney, commissioner, be- ginning at the northeast corner of township No. 6, and run- ning south to the southeast corner of said township.

District No. 11, John Grover, commissioner, beginning at the southeast corner of township No. 6, and running south wardly to the State road; and also a road from John Grover's west to the State road.

District No. 12, Andrew McBuzzell, commissioner, be- ginning at the State road, near Joshua Daniel's, and running east to the town line.

District No. 13, John Smith, commissioner, beginning at Salmon Clark's, thence south westwardly to the Sutton road; also the road beginning near James Phinney's, and running southeastwardly to the Lime Lake road.

At a special town-meeting held at Mr. Steele's house, April 25, 1821, the following additional town legislation was enacted :

" Voted, that fifteen dollars be paid for panthers caught within this town by any persons living in town, one dollar be paid on wild-cats, and seventy-five cents on foxes.

" Voted, that the town of Yorkshire should proceed against the town of Ishua for their rites and privelidges.

" Voted, that any person that shall drive cattle to this town for the purpose of pastureing them on the commons,

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shall be liable to pay one dollar per head for every such offense."

The following is a list of the supervisors, town clerks, and justices of the peace from 1821 to 1878, inclusive:

SUPERVISORS.

1821-22. Samuel G. Sutton. 1823-25. Benjamin Felch. 1826. Howard Peck.

1827. Benjamin Felch.

1828-30. Robert Steele. 1831. Benjamin Felch. 1832-33. Robert Steele. 1834. Solomon Love. 1835. George Graham. 1836-40. Lewis Marsh. 1841-42. George Graham.

1843-45. Seth R. Crittenden.

1846. George L. Collins. 1847-48. Seth R. Crittenden. 1849-53. George Graham. 1854. Lorenzo D. Cobb.

1855-57. Joseph H. Wright. 1858-59. Erastus Daley. 1860. George Graham. 1861. Charles T. Lowden. 1862-63. Perry Howe. 1864. Joseph H. Wright. 1865-66. Edwin M. Pierce. 1867-68. Aldis Spring. 1869. Lorenzo D. Cobb. 1870. Dwight J. Woodworth. 1871-72. Elliott A. Cobb. 1873. Solomon Howe. 1874-75. Gershom S. Rowley.

1876. Solomon Howe.

1877-78. Charles H. Miller.

TOWN CLERKS.

1821-25. Joshua Daniels. 1826. Nathan Follett.

1827-33. George Graham. 1834-35. Daniel Rich.

1835. Paschal P. Whitney. 1836-37. Benjamin Packard. 1838. George W. Thomas. 1839. John Willey.

1840. La Fayette Marsh. 1841. Benjamin Packard. 1842-44. La Fayette Marsh. 1845. Artemus Spring. 1846. Solomon Love.

1873-74. Wm. L. Whitman.

1847-48. Charles T. Lowden.

1875. Walter W. Cheney.

1876-78. Chester C. Pingrey.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE."

1821. Elijah T. Ashcraft.

William Warner. Robert Steele.

1849. Charles T. Lowden.

1827. George Graham.

1850. Aldis Spring.

1828. Augustus Crary.

! 1851. Samuel Persons.

1829. Barnard Wood.

1830. Arunah Hibbard.

1831. George Graham.

1853. Charles T. Lowden.

1854. Wm. W. King.

1855. Samuel Crocker.

1856. Lorenzo D. Cobb. Isaac White.

1857. Joseph H. Wright.

1858. Aldis Spring.

1837. Ira Bishop.

Hiram Thornton. 1859. Isaac White.

1839. George Graham.

1860. Lorenzo D. Cobb.

1840. Miles Carter.

1861. Buel G. Smith.

1841. Joseph Metcalf.

1862. Aldis Spring.

1842. Solomon Love. Samuel G. Sutton.

1863. Isaac White. 1864. Lorenzo D. Cobb. 1865. Buel G. Smith.

1843. George Graham.

1844. Rufus Crowley.

1866. Aldis Spring.

1845. Henry Stringham.

1867. Stephen Rich.

1846. Samuel G. Sutton.

1868. Lorenzo D. Cobb.

1847. George Graham.

1869. Buel G. Smith.

# Arunah Hibbard was the first justice elected by the people. Those holding the office prior to 1830 were appointed by State authorities, and there is nothing in the town records to show who they were, or when they were appointed, other than signatures attached to affida- vits, etc.

1870. Wm. W. King.

1875. Buel G. Smith.

1871. William B. Stacey. Eugene M. Whitney. 1876. Hiram G. Blood.

1872. George Williams.

1873. Stephen Rich, G. W. Tapple.

Warren Worden.

1874. Earl Silliman.

Henry L. Marsh.

1877. William C. Smith. 1878. William W. King.

At the annual town-meeting, of 1825, it was voted : " Aney person Drawing lumber across aney bridge in the Town of Yorkshire, with a chain, without aney Carriage under it shall pay the sum of one Dollar for every such offense."

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

No books or papers pertaining to the first highways or avenues of travel are preserved among the town records ; but it is to be presumed that the highway leading from Yorkshire Corners .to the foot of Lime Lake was the first laid out and improved. The abandoned road-bed of the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, upon which much labor and money was expended about 1858, intersects the town from north to south on the east side.

The Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad, which was completed in 1872, enters the town near the northeast corner, and running in a southerly course, passes Yorkshire Centre, through the east tier of lots of township 6, range 5, and leaves the town just west of the southeast corner. The town voted $18,000 to aid in its construction.

YORKSHIRE CENTRE,

situated east of the centre, on the south branch of the Cat- taraugus Creek and the outlet of Lime Lake, both of which afford good water-power privileges, is a station on the Buf- falo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad. It contains two church edifices (Baptist and Union), three religious societies (viz., Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, and Univers- alist), one hotel, four stores of general merchandise, one hardware store and tin-store, one drug-store, one furni- ture-store, one small grocery-store, one jewelry-store, one cheese-factory, one grist-mill, one saw-mill, one cheese- box and shingle-factory, one wool-carding establishment, a post-office, one district school, with two departments, two wagon-, three blacksmith-, two harness-, and two shoe- shops, a meat-market, four millinery and dress-making shops, one barber-shop, three physicians, three clergymen, and about 400 inhabitants.

Mason Smith and Lewis Marsh were the original owners of that part of the site which lies upon lot 6. The first clearing was made by Mason Smith, in 1821 ; Abel Gordon built the first log house, in 1822; and Henry I. Paddock built the first framed house, about 1825.

YORKSHIRE CORNERS

is situated in the northeast corner of the town, on Catta- raugus Creek, and one and one-half miles west of the station of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad.

It contains two churches (Free Methodist and Advent), two hotels, three stores of a general stock, one harness-store, one drug-store and groceries combined, one tin- and hard- ware-store, one furniture-store, post-office, one district school- house with two departments, one grist-mill, one saw-mill,

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1834. Arunah Hibbard.

1835. George Graham. 1836. Miles Carter.

1852. Solomon Lincoln. Isaac White.

1832. Barnard Wood. Reuben Hollister.

1833. Robert Steele.

1838. Samuel G. Sutton.

1848. Solomon Lincoln. James R. Barnes.

1849-50. George W. Bailey. 1851. Paschal P. Whitney.

1852-53. Charles T. Lowden. 1854. Joseph H. Wright. 1855-56. Stephen Holmes. 1857. Charles T. Lowden. 1858. Nathan T. Thomas. 1859. Joseph H. Wright. 1860-61. George W. Whiting. 1862-63. Joseph H. Wright. 1864. Truman Cole. 1865-66. John B. Foote. 1867-71. Joseph H. Wright. 1872. H. M. Pomeroy.

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one plow-manufactory and iron-foundry, one cheese-factory, a meat-market, two wagon- and three blacksmith-shops, millinery, dress-making, etc., and about 300 inhabitants. Isaac Williams and his sons were the first settlers here, and here were established the first mills, tavern, store, black- smith, and other shops in the town.

WEST YORKSHIRE,

on Cattaraugus Creek, about the centre of the north border of the town, contains a grist-miHl, tannery, post-office, wagon- shop, blacksmith-shop, shoe-shop, and about 50 inhabitants. James Boyce, John Pierce, and James Smith were the first settlers in this locality.

SOCIETIES.

Yorkshire Lodge, No. 80, A. O. U. W., was instituted February, 1877, with about twenty-five charter members and the following officers : D. J. Woodworth, M. W .; W. T. Pierce, Recorder ; E. A. Cobb, Receiver.

Among the present officers are D. J. Woodworth, Past M. W .; W. T. Hughes, Recorder ; E. A. Cobb, Receiver ; H. J. Beardsley, Financier. Present membership, 45.

Ivanhoe Council, No. 72, Royal Templars of Temper- ance, was organized at Yorkshire Centre, November, 1878, with twenty-nine charter members and the following board of officers, viz. : A. J. Langmade, S. C .; S. Brownell, V. C .; F. Howell, P. C .; S. Harmon, C .; F. Worden, H .; C. Vedder, D. H .; Mrs. Krehheil, R. C .; F. Regan, F. C .; Mrs. F. Regan, T .; Mrs. F. Howell, E. G .; E. Runyan, S.

SCHOOLS.

"The undersigned commissioners of common schools for the town of Yorkshire, for the year 1822, having attended to the duty of ap- portioning the money allowed by law for the support of common schools, find on examination that there is but one school district in said town entitled according to law to any of said money ; that the apportionment of money for said town is $12, and that school district No. 4 is entitled to the aforesaid sum of $12.

" JACOB COCHRAN, "SAMUEL G. SUTTON, "WIGGIN M. FARRAR,

" Commissioners of Common Schools.

" YORKSHIRE, 24th April, 1822."

In comparison with the foregoing, the following statistics, taken from the report of the county school commissioners for the year ending Sept. 30, 1878, are herewith appended.

The number of school districts are 12, with 11 school buildings, valued, with sites, at $7371 ; volumes in library, 354, valued at $125; number of teachers employed, 13; amount paid for teachers' wages, $2445.43; number of weeks taught, 328; amount of public money received from State, $1374.47; amount of money received from tax, $1068.59.

CHURCHES.

It is stated that the Methodists formed a society at York- shire Corners in 1814, but no records or other evidence can be found to prove it as a fact.

Rev. Judah Babcock, a Free-Will Baptist preacher, held meetings in the houses of Benjamin Felch and Isaac Wil- liams in 1817.

The Patchenites also flourished here, to some extent, in the days of their ascendency in this and adjoining towns.

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF YORKSHIRE, AT YORK- SHIRE CENTRE,

was organized at the school-house in Yorkshire Centre, May 13, 1855, by Rev. E. W. Bliss, with the following con- stituent members : Erastus Wheatley, Samuel Morse, Seth Pomeroy, Moses F. Durfey, Truman Cole, Samuel Crocker, Stephen Langmade, Abram Howell, Samuel H. Howell, Henry Howell, Caroline Wheatley, Ruth Morse, Catherine Pomeroy, Sarah Durfey, Octavia Cole, Joanna Crocker, and Aseneth Langmade.

At a council of ministers and delegates of surrounding churches, held June 6, 1855, it was recognized as an inde- pendent church, and the right hand of fellowship extended.

Moses S. Durfey and Erastus Wheatley were the first deacons. Their house of worship was erected in 1856, and dedicated December 9 of the same year. It cost $2000, and has sittings for 325 persons. Rev. William J. Ker- mott, a licentiate, was the first pastor, and has been fol- lowed in the pastoral duties of this church as in the order named by Revs. N. F. Langmade, T. T. Horton, J. W. Snyder, Clinton Colegrove, Charles Berry, Darwin Wood, N. F. Langmade, and Jotham S. Johnson, the present pastor. Present membership, 59. Number of pupils in Sabbath-school, 50. Mrs. Myra Stevens, Superintendent.

THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF YORKSHIRE, AT YORK- SHIRE CENTRE.

This society was organized in the school-house at York- shire Centre, by Rev. Gideon S. Gowdy, Jan. 3, 1856, and was composed of 22 members, as follows : Hiram Thornton, Jacob Murphy, Buel G. Smith, John H. Bowers, Mason Smith, Ezekiel Pierce, Alonzo Cobb, Henry Howe, N. T. Harvey, William Quint, Willis Phinney, J. Dwinnell, Jerry Fox, Samuel Eastland, Franklin Poor, Henry Olcott, Na- than Hadley, Nathan H. Ferrin, Lewis G. Bentley, E. J. Strong, Harry Nourse, and S. S. Langmade. The church proper was regularly organized in 1858, with 23 members, but the records of proceedings, etc., are not accessible.

In 1858 this church, in conjunction with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Yorkshire, erected a church edifice, which has sittings for 300 persons, and cost $2500. Rev. G. S. Gowdy was the first pastor. He has been followed by Revs. O. B. Clark, E. Hathaway, B. Hunt, and George Adams.

The congregation numbers 20 families at the present time. No pastor. The union Sabbath-school of the two churches has a membership of 60; J. A. Wiltsie, Superintendent; W. B. Stacey, Assistant Superintendent.

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF YORKSHIRE, AT YORKSHIRE CENTRE,

was formed in 1857, by Rev. S. Y. Hammond. Among the first members were John Strong, Henry Dow, and John Cheney. They were organized as part of the Machias charge. In 1873 they became an independent church, and had as pastors Revs. Charles Patterson, John Brush- ingham, J. W. Gamble, and - Latham. In 1877 they were again incorporated with the Machias Church. Rev. M. D. Jackson, pastor. Present membership, 31.

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THE FIRST FREE METHODIST CHURCH IN YORKSHIRE, AT YORKSHIRE CORNERS,

was organized in the school-house, at Yorkshire Corners, by Rev. Henry Hornsby, June 8, 1868, with fourteen mem- bers, viz., Lyman Parker, Alvira Parker, Jonas R. Olmsted, Miranda Olmsted, Hannah Bowen, Eveline Pomeroy, Emily Goodspeed, Stephen Daniels, Andrew Mccutchen, Jane Mccutchen, Mary Harriot, Elisha Pomeroy, Lois Till- inghast, and John W. O'Neil. They bought the Odd- Fellows' Hall in 1868, and the same year reconstructed it as a church edifice and parsonage, at a total cost of $2100. Rev. William Cusick was their first pastor, and he has been followed by Revs. Thomas Catton, M. E. Brown, William Manning, M. C. Burritt, George H. Joslyn, William In- galsby, A. H. Bennett, and M. E. Brown. Present mem- bership of the society, 13. Number of pupils in Sabbath- school, 20. Miss Emma McIntyre, Superintendent.

THE ADVENT CHURCH OF YORKSHIRE, AT YORKSHIRE CORNERS,

was organized with 63 members in 1868, during a revival that was held in a tent by Revs. Clinton Colgrove, Wil- liam A. Fenn, and Jonas Wendell. Mr. Colgrove, an elo- quent divine, and formerly of the Baptist Church, had begun preaching here in the school-house three years pre- viously, and continued his labors with this church until 1875. The first members of this church were Deacon Watson, Philander Cook, Victoria Wood, E. W. Earle, Anson Jones, Gertrude A. Shaver, Charles E. Reynolds, Marshall McGee, Mrs. M. Magee, J. P. Robinson, Weber L. Peirce, Mrs. W. L. Peirce, Clara Brand, William New- ton, Angenette Newton, Caroline A. Wetherbee, Lettie Newton, Andrew Ely, Martha Ely, Mark Peirce, Clinton Colgrove, Lavina Hill, John Nichols, Addison Colton, Mary A. McIntosh, Mrs. C. E. Reynolds, J. M. Pomeroy, Mary E. Pomeroy, Anna Hughes, Elisha Cline, George Williams, Lucy Williams, Mrs. Nelson Wade, Amanda Pomeroy, Joseph Rice, Mrs. Anna Walker, Grace Franklin, George Marsh, Delphina Marsh, Lucy Hopkins, Elarcia Colgrove, E. F. Cook, Mrs. L. V. Cook, John Case, Eliza Case, Mary Case, Alice Wade, Lelia Holman, Samantha Cook, Chauncey Rogers, Mary Peet, Mrs. Mary A. Boss, Rosa Boss, Ann Goodenough, Hannah Carpenter, Mrs. Alder Crosby, George Hitchcock, Simeon Williams, Ralston S. Barto, Mary E. Barto, Elder Jacob Blain, Lewis Bentley, and Elizabeth Hughes. Their church edifice was erected in 1869, has sittings for 300 persons, and cost $3300. The church has a present membership of 20, a small Sabbath- school. No pastor.

MILITARY RECORD.

The following-named pensioners for Revolutionary and other military services were residents of Yorkshire in 1840, viz. : Elisha Randall, aged seventy-nine ; Jacob Winters, fifty-four ; Bishop Coston, eighty-one; William Gould, eighty-eight ; Abner Reckard, seventy-six ; and Elisha Plumb, aged fifty-three years. Without doubt there were other heroes of the Revolution here, who had died prior to the above-mentioned date, but such records have not been kept. Of the veterans of 1812 we have learned of none

other than Col. Arunah Hibbard and John Brown, one of the earliest settlers.

During the war of the Rebellion the town did her whole duty. She put into the field 158 men, and paid in bounties to these soldiers the sum of $32,900; the county paid in addition, $10,200; making a total of $43,100.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

GEORGE GRAHAM, ESQ.

Among the pioneers and prominent citizens of the town of Yorkshire whose life and services entitle them to notice on the pages of local history, few, if any, better deserve to have their memories perpetuated than our subject. Coming to Yorkshire as he did when the now thriving and pros- perous town was a wilderness, uncultivated, and barren of

George Graham

agricultural implements, he witnessed much of its growth and prosperity, and was himself an important factor in its development. For more than forty years he filled some office of trust in the town, and his good common sense and more than average intelligence were largely felt in the ma- terial and intellectual progress of the community in which he lived so long and so well.

George Graham was born at Concord, N. H., Oct. 5, 1801. He was the son of Asa Graham, an active and in- fluential citizen of Concord. About the year 1820 he accompanied his son George to Yorkshire, but never became an actual settler there.

On the 13th of January, 1825, George Graham returned to Concord, and was there united in marriage with Lucia Thorn, who, immediately after the performance of the in- teresting ceremony, returned with her husband to their new

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home in the Western country, as Cattaraugus County was then considered. They commenced housekeeping in the March following their wedding, and where for upwards of forty-five years they passed life's fleeting hours together; and on the 7th of March, 1871, she died full of years, and after the fulfillment of the noblest relations of woman,- those of wife and mother. A little less than two years later, and on the 12th of February, 1873, Mr. Graham followed his exemplary companion to the grave, and, sleep- ing the last long sleep together, we can but wish them a blissful eternity after the resurrection.

This worthy couple had ten children, namely, Joseph G., born Oct. 14, 1825; Flora Taylor, May 12, 1861, de- ceased; Sarah L., born Sept. 22, 1826, unmarried ; Rozilla A., born June 8, 1828, married Jeremiah F. Jackman, Feb. 20, 1851, resides in Erie Co., N. Y .; Rachel M., born Nov. 14, 1830, unmarried ; John C., born Jan. 15, 1833, married Teressa Jacobs, Dec. 15, 1861, resides in Iowa; George H., born March 5, 1835, married Ellen M. Morse, March 24, 1861 ; Lucia E., born March 14, 1837, married Solomon Howe, Oct. 7, 1869; Walter A., born April 30, 1839, married Altie E. Nye, Sept. 29, 1866; Mary J., born Feb. 4, 1842, died Jan. 20, 1845; Mary L., born May 15, 1844, unmarried.

In politics, Mr. Graham was first a Whig, and afterwards a Republican, which latter he remained until his death. He held the office of supervisor for about ten years, and was a justice of the peace for twenty-four years. He held also several minor town offices, all of which he filled with fidelity to the trusts imposed in him and with general ability. He resided in the old homestead (now occupied by his unmar- ried daughters) nearly fifty years, and every one knew him as an honest man and a good citizen.

SOLOMON HOWE

comes of Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, Moses Howe, of New Hampshire, having served in several of the struggles with Great Britain that culminated triumphantly by the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. The father of Solomon was Aaron Howe, who was born in the State of New Hampshire, and subsequently resided in Madison and Tompkins Counties, and finally in Cattaraugus County, where he died in the year 1836. His widow survived him until March 6, 1870, when she too went to her eternal rest, full of years and respectability.

Solomon Howe was born in Groton, Tompkins Co., N. Y., May 4, 1818. At the age of twelve years his parents removed to the town of Yorkshire, Cattaraugus Co., where he still resides. The facilities for education were limited, and school-houses few and far between, so that he received but a small modicum of learning. The little he did get, however, he has greatly increased by subsequent reading and observation.

Mr. Howe has been twice married : first, to Minerva

Gould, of New Hudson, Allegany Co., N. Y., in 1845. She died June 27, 1865. His second wife was Lucia E., daughter of George Graham, Esq., a respected pioneer of Yorkshire, Oct. 7, 1869. They have two children,-Or- mond, born Nov. 20, 1870, and Minerva, born June 28, 1872. Both are living.

In politics, Mr. Howe is a Democrat of the Jacksonian school. He has been frequently elected to town offices, and often honored by his party with nominations to county

Solomon How

offices, but owing to the overwhelming Republican majority, although always running ahead of his ticket, it has been impossible to secure an election. In 1873 he was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors, and again to the same position in 1876. He has also held several minor offices in the town government. In 1869 he received the Democratic nomination for Assembly, but was defeated by George N. West. In the fall of 1872 he was nominated by his party for the office of County Superintendent of the Poor. In both instances he received a flattering recogni- tion, running from one hundred to one hundred and fifty votes ahead of his ticket. He made an honest and capable supervisor, and did his duty faithfully and well in all the offices of trust to which he has been elected.

Mr. Howe is generally considered a man of more than average intelligence, and what is of equal if not of greater importance, of uncompromising honesty. In the various relations of life he strives to do his duty, and that he has succeeded is shown by the popularity he enjoys, both at home, where he is well known, and abroad, where his repu- tation s-ands deservedly high.

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ALLEGANY. BY CYRUS G. McKAY, EsQ.

THIS town was formed from Great Valley as Burton, April 18, 1831. Its name was changed March 28, 1851. Humphrey was taken off May 12, 1836. It lies upon the south border of the county ; it is comprised of townships 1 and 2 of the fifth range, according to Joseph Ellicott's survey, and contains 44,989 acres. It is bounded north by Humphrey, east by Hinsdale and Olean, south by Pennsylvania, and west by Carrolton and Great Valley. The surface is a hilly upland, broken by the deep valley of the Allegany River, which flows from east to west through the centre of the town. The hills have steep declivities, and their highest summits are 700 to 900 feet above the valleys. The principal streams on the north side of the river are Five-Mile and Nine-Mile Runs; on the south are Two-Mile and Four-Mile Runs and Chipmunk Creek. The soil is a shaly and sandy loam on the hills, and in the val- leys it is a clayey and gravelly loam.

Rock City, five miles south of Allegany village, is al- ready famous as a place of resort for parties seeking pleas- ure, and those wishing to view the grand and picturesque scenery with which the place abounds. There are rocks of immense size, towering up to a great height, and having apparently been sundered by some unaccountable convulsion of nature; there are alleys and streets, and apartments which are roofed over with rocks, one of which rooms is large enough for a party of 25 or 30 persons. These towering rocks, composed of light conglomerate sand-rock intermixed with white, flinty pebbles, are very hard and solid, indented with seams, which have the appearance of having been caused by the beating of storms for ages, or of the rocks having been washed by the dashing waves of a sca which, ages ago, submerged all this region.

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