Lake View, New York
Lake View is a hamlet in Erie County, New York, United States. Lake View is in the town of Hamburg.
Geography
It is 15 miles (24 km) south of Buffalo along Lake Erie. It is bounded by Eighteen Mile Creek on the south, Pleasant Avenue on the north, Lake Erie on the west and the village of Hamburg on the east.
History
Early settlers were Ebenezer Ames, Jacob F. Schoellkopf, a successful entrepreneur in western New York,[1] and Ebenezer Walden, 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.[2] 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[3] which brought economic prosperity to the small community. An electric trolley called the Buffalo & Erie was built 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 Community Church in 1889,[4] Lake View School[5] in 1890, the Gatling Land Boom[6] in 1893, the Day Bicycle Factory in 1895,[7] Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in 1921,[8] and the Lake View Fire Association in 1923.[9]
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church and the congregation from St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church were merged and officially renamed Blessed John Paul II Parish on September 1, 2011. Upon the canonization of John Paul II on April 27, 2014, the parish assumed the name of St. John Paul II R.C. Church.[10][11]
During World War II, two young women named Winifred Stadler and Rita Fierle produced a newsletter called the Lake View Local[12] 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"[13] which contained many favorite recipes from the town's residents.
Notable people
- William Stachowski, former New York state senator
- Francis J. Pordum, former New York state assemblyman
- Ebenezer Walden, former mayor of Buffalo, New York
References
- ↑
- ↑ "Ebenezer Walden". The Buffalonian. 2001. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
- ↑ "Lake View, New York". Western New York Railroad Archive. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
- ↑
- ↑ "Lake View School Reunion 1993". 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
- ↑ Andrle, Chris (2008). "The Gatling Land Boom of 1893". Buffalo Local History. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑ "A Pictorial History of the Lake View Volunteer Fire Association". 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
- ↑ http://www.usccb.org/about/leadership/holy-see/canonizations-john-xxiii-john-paul-ii.cfm
- ↑ http://www.buffalodiocese.org/Home/tabid/37/ctl/Detail/mid/1885/itemid/1117/Default.aspx
- ↑ "Lake View Local". Lake View Times. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
- ↑ "The ABC's of Cooking". 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
External links
- Lake View Times, web-related resources for Lake View 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.
- Lake View Community Church since 1891
- Emergent Christian Youth of Lake View
- Lake View Community Association since 1922
- Eighteen Mile Creek, a stream that forms the southern border of Lake View and empties into Lake Erie
- More on Eighteen Mile Creek, home to 385-million-year-old Middle Devonian fossils
- History of Lake View, covering 1804 to 1924; written in 1965 by Raymond V. Healy
- Demographics for ZIP code 14085
- Census of Lake View 1930
- Railroad stations
Coordinates: 42°42′40″N 78°56′09″W / 42.71111°N 78.93583°W