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Town of Cheektowaga, New York
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CHEEKTOWAGA comes from the Erie-Seneca Indian word, Ji-ik-do-wah-gah, or "place of the crabapple tree." The earliest Indian dwellers were Neuters, who lost their lands to the Seneca tribe of the League of the Iroquois. For almost a century, this area remained hunting and fishing grounds of the Six Nations. Of the few Indian villages along the Niagara frontier, one was located in central Cheektowaga. Ga-sko-sa-da, or Falls Village, sprawled along the Indian trail that was on the north bank of the Cayuga Creek, The village's long houses were built from Borden Road, near Broadway, along the creek bluff to Union Road.
When the Six Nations were defeated by the Americans during the Revolutionary War, they were forced to settle on Indian Reservations and give up the vast forest areas they had held. One of these reservations, the Buffalo Creek Indian Reservation, was located across central Erie County. The southern part of our township was originally part of that reservation, with William Street being part of the northern boundary.
The purchase of these vast Indian lands in Western New York, by the Holland Land Company, led to early settlement by people from along the Atlantic seaboard. One of those early New England settlers was Appollos Hitchcock, who in 1808 built his first home, a log cabin, in our present Cheektowaga near Borden and Broadway. Cheektowaga then was part of a huge town of Erie, in an immense County of Genesee. Appollos Hitchcock and his descendants successfully conducted a series of large farms, a mill and distillery in the Borden Road - Broadway area for over a century. They were active civic leaders in the Town's school and government affairs. Their gracious homes represented the success which had come from their efforts in making Cheektowaga a busy township.
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- MsPaulaGonzalez (delighted) : I truly love my community the neighbors here are great.I can usually find whatever it is that I am in need of without going to far away. The stores,the doctors,the barbers,small animal clinics,churches,theaters,you name it it's here. Thu Feb 19 02:16:22 UTC 2009
