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Jamestown is a city in southern Chautauqua County, New York, United States.The population was 28,712 at the 2020 census.Situated between Lake Erie to the north and the Allegheny National Forest to the south, Jamestown is the largest city in the county.
The district encompasses 103 contributing buildings in the central business district of Jamestown. The district developed between about 1873 and 1956, and includes buildings in a variety of architectural styles including Italianate , Gothic Revival , Second Empire , Romanesque Revival , Classical Revival , Renaissance Revival , and Art Deco .
NY 430 is ceremoniously designated as the Senator Jess J. Present Memorial Highway in honor of Jess Present, a New York State Senator from Jamestown. Municipalities NY 430 runs through include (from west to east) the villages of Sherman and Mayville, the hamlet of Maple Springs, the village of Bemus Point and the city of Jamestown. Besides NY ...
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Six years later, the remainder of current NY 394 gained a pair of designations as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York; however, by the mid-1940s, the Mayville–Jamestown stretch was solely designated as New York State Route 17J. In November 1973, NY 17 was realigned onto the new Southern Tier Expressway east of Jamestown.
The swamp was a refuge location for the Great Dismal Swamp maroons, including enslaved people in the Southern states before the American Civil War, and Native Americans who were escaping colonial expansion. [7] Prior to the maroons inhabiting the swamp, it was inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Native American coastal tribes.
Chautauqua County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 127,657. [2] Its county seat is Mayville, [3] and its largest city is Jamestown.
The Buffalo and South Western Railroad was short-lived and was leased by the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad on August 1, 1880, for an annual rental of 35 percent of the gross earnings for the line. On November 19, 1895, the Erie officially merged the Buffalo and South Western by virtue of owning 100 percent of the B&SW stock.