Lake View, New York

Lake View is a hamlet (but non-census-designated place) in Erie County, New York, USA. Lakeview is in the Town of Hamburg.

Geography

It is about convert|17|mi south of Buffalo along Lake Erie.

History

Early settlers were Ebenezer Ames, Jacob Schoellkopf and Ebenezer Walden, [cite web| url=http://www.buffalonian.com/history/industry/mayors/Walden.htm| title=Ebenezer Walden| work=The Buffalonian| year=2001| accessdate=2008-09-02| ] a prominent Buffalo attorney and mayor whose family 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 (later part of New York Central Railroad) 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 (the Nickel Plate Road) and the Pennsylvania Railroad [cite web| url=http://wnyrails.org/cities/lakeview.htm| title=Lake View, New York| work=Western New York Railroad Archive| accessdate=2008-09-02| ] 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 [cite web| url=http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/lakeviewschool.htm| title=Lake View School Reunion 1993| date=2007-09-30| accessdate=2008-09-02| ] in 1890, the Gatling Land Boom [cite web| url=http://www.andrle.com/chris/gatling.htm| title=The Gatling Land Boom of 1893| work=Buffalo Local History| date=2008| author=Andrle, Chris| accessdate=2008-09-02| ] in 1893, the Day Bicycle Factory in 1895, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in 1921 and the Lake View Fire Association [cite web| url=http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/lvfahistory.htm| title=A Pictorial History of the LAKE VIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION| year=2007| accessdate=2008-09-02| ] in 1923.

During WWII, two young woman named Winifred Stadler and Rita Fierle produced a newsletter called the Lake View Local [cite web| url=http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/LVL/index.htm| title=Lake View Local| work=Lake View Times| accessdate=2008-09-02| ] 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" [cite web| url=http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/cookbook/abcsofcooking.htm| title=The ABC's of Cooking| date=2007| accessdate=2008-09-02| ] which contained many favorite tried and true recipes from the town's residents.

References

External links

* [http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/lakeviewtimes.htm 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.
* [http://www.classicbuffalo.com/WNYOutdoors/EighteenMileCreek.htm Eighteen Mile Creek] - A stream that forms the southern border of Lake View and empties into Lake Erie; known for excellent fossil formations.
* [http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/history.htm History of Lake View] - covering the years 1804 to 1924; Written in 1965 by Raymond V. Healy, BS, MS Ed
* [http://www.city-data.com/zips/14085.html Demographics for Zip Code 14085]
* [http://seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/1930census-names.htm Census of Lake View 1930]