Articles

George W. Woodruff was born and raised in East Otto, Cattaraugus County, NY, and was an active participant in WWI.  He was reported killed in action, but it wasn’t meant to be.  So, how did that come about?

Mr. Lorenzo Stratton, of Little Valley, has been experimenting for a few years past, with a view to test the practicability of domesticating elk; and for this purpose encloseda tract of hilly land, well wooded for ranging and browsing.

"Stained Glass Artist's Leaded Glass Came Knife: The knife is a Don Carlos Model made in Solingen, Germany by Friedrick Herder".

Written by Patrick J. Cullen.

The Cutlers of Cattaraugus County, New York:  A History and Chronology

Written by Brad Lockwood and Dean E. Case, who also provided photos of Cattaraugus Cutlery Workers and JBF Champlin

The history of American cutlery cannot be told without Cattaraugus County. Remarkably, this one county has been home to at least two dozen cutlery operations (see partial side list) with no less than 70 established companies within a 50 mile radius of Little Valley, New York, Cattaraugus County’s Seat, and a town once known as “The Village of Knives.”

Cattaraugus Village and Rich Valley - Submitted by Patrick Cullen

The Battle of Cattaraugus
During the American Revolutionary War, in 1779, General George Washington adopted a strategy of reducing the assets of the British by attacking the American Indian tribe's villages who sided with them.  Nearly all of New York State's Iroquois Indian Tribes fell into that category.

A small plot marked by a stark white wooden cross in the secluded Horsehoe Cemetery in Carrollton contains the 600-year-old remains of an Iroquois recovered during an archeological excavaion in Nittany, PA.

The US has not always been a nation of right-handed drivers.  Earlier in the history of the US carriage and horse traffic traveled on the left side of the road as it did in England.  By the late 1700, so it is told temsters driving large wagons pulled by several pairs of horses began prompting to shift to the right side. A driver would sit on the rear left horse in order to wield his whip with his right hand.  To see opposite traffic clearly, the teamsters traveled on the right side.