1860 Residents, Landowners, & Business Owners

In 1996, the Niagara County Genealogical Society began reprinting a rare wall map (used for many years in the schools) of the county and its villages and hamlets. The reprints include twelve smaller maps, of individual villages, and one large county map. All the maps show many names of land owners and residents; some areas provide two different sets of names, one from the small map and one from the large.

Landowners listed are on the 1860 village map. The map has a business directory listed, which I suspect was a paid advertisement type of thing. Some names are listed more than once, indicating more than one establishment owned.

Villages and Hamlets

Town	Place Name
Cambria	PEKIN, a crossroad at the town lines of Lewiston and Cambria
Hartland	JOHNSONS CREEK MIDDLEPORT, situated so the northern half was in the town of Hartland, the southern half in the town of Royalton
Lewiston	LEWISTON PEKIN, a crossroad at the town lines of Lewiston and Cambria
Lockport	LOCKPORT RAPIDS
Newfane	CHARLOTTE OLCOTT
Niagara	NIAGARA FALLS
Pendleton	PENDLETON
Porter	RANSOMVILLE YOUNGSTOWN,
Royalton	GASPORT MIDDLEPORT, situated so the northern half was in the town of Hartland, the southern half in the town of Royalton ORANGEPORT REYNALES BASEN ROYALTON CENTRE
Somerset	SOMERSET CORNERS
Wheatfield	MARTINSVILLE NEW BERGHOLTZ NORTH TONAWANDA
Wilson	WILSON

Transcribed from a wall map and contributed 1996 by Gail Allore.

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