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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...from Buffalo to the site of Westfield; this was in the month of July, 1799-There was nothing but an Indian path from Buffalo to Westfield. This path crossed the creek at Westfield, a little below the bridere. We took this Indian path to the Old French Road. "The Old French Road commenced on the west side of the Chautauqua Creek, at its mouth opposite Barcelona. At this end of the Old French Road, a stone mason work was erected, and laid in mud or mortar. It was three or four feet high, circular, three or four feet across, with a circular hole in the top for a kettle; there was no kettle there; a fire could be built in this mason work. It was built evidently for cooking purposes. I, and the Indian, followed the Old Portage Road from the mouth of Chautauqua Creek, to Chautauqua Lake. From the mouth of Chautauqua Creek, it passed up on the west side of the creek, about three miles to where the road to Mayville from Westfield now crosses the creek. Here I saw dugways upon both sides of the creek. It then meandered along over bad ground to the dividing ridge; then turned to the right to the Chautauqua Creek and then to the left, to this side of the Mountain House (Button's Inn), where we came to an old log causeway, over a bad piece of the ground, about a mile this side of the Mountain House. The present road is pretty much over this old log causeway. The Old Portage Road then kept on over bayous and swamps, although no other causeway had been built over these places, bearing a little to the east of the present road. Here in Mayville the road passed about seventy rods easterly from my dwelling house and so on easterly to Main Street through Mayville, terminating at the foot of Main Street. At the termination of the road at Chautauqua Lake, there was another...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130456641
- ISBN 13 9781130456646
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages124
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