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By Cosmos Mariner, July 19, 2017
Town Line, N.Y. Marker (wide view; looking west along US Highway 20)
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1 ► New York, Erie County, Lancaster — Town Line, N.Y. —  |
| N.E. corner of the intersection was a school. In the summer of 1861 this mainly German Community voted 85 to 40 to secede from the Union. It was rumored that many men left to join the Confederacy. On October 1945 President Truman advised Town . . . — — Map (db m118941) HM | |||
| 2 ► New York, Erie County, Alden — Secession & Reunion — |
| It is believed that the residents of Town Line, NY met at the schoolhouse near this marker following the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 and voted 80-45 to secede from the Union. The story is undocumented and their reasons are unknown. . . . — — Map (db m118944) HM | |||