On Como Park Boulevard at Park Street, on the right when traveling east on Como Park Boulevard.
The Bellevue Neighborhood was one of the earliest settlements in Cheektowaga, when the Ely family settled there and established one of the first saw mills in Cheektowaga along Cayuga Creek. These family members were abolitionists and maintained an . . . — — Map (db m82326) HM
On William Street at Starlite Avenue, on the right on William Street.
The defeated Indian League of the Iroquois received a large reservation across Erie County, at the end of the American Revolution. William Street forms part of the north boundary of this Buffalo Creek Indian Reservation. The final sale treaty, . . . — — Map (db m74063) HM
On Union Road (New York State Route 277) south of Genesee Street, on the left when traveling south.
Our Lady of Christians started as a shrine in 1851. Fulfilling a vow he made during an Atlantic storm in November 1836. German immigrant Joseph Batt gave land and built the shrine. In October 1890, this church became the first parish in . . . — — Map (db m81469) HM
Near Union Road (New York State Route 277) 0.5 miles north of Wells Avenue.
The area of Cheektowaga known as Forks, New York is located in the middle of the town at the junction of Broadway & Union Roads. A major railroad station was at this location and in the 1920s the present Town Hall was built. Behind the now . . . — — Map (db m103646) HM
On Aero Drive south of Ellicott Creek Road, on the right when traveling south.
Garrison Cemetery has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m226754)
On Pine Ridge Road at Victoria Boulevard, on the right when traveling south on Pine Ridge Road.
On this property in 1883, at an outdoor picnic of Buffalo Businessmen, Gerhard Lang proposed the toast "To Grover Cleveland, our next President." This launched the campaign which led to the election, in 1884, of Grover Cleveland as the 22nd . . . — — Map (db m82307) HM
On Ellicott Road at Union Road (New York State Route 277), on the left when traveling north on Ellicott Road.
Heroic Dead 1917 World War 1918 Town of Cheektowaga, N.Y. Andres, John; Benzel, William; Duly, John R.; Geier, Harvey H.; Hoerner, Jacob J.; Holtz, John W.; Klaffka, John C.; Latzer, Wendelin; Ostrowski, Frank; Racinowski, Stanley; Szydlowski, . . . — — Map (db m106530) WM
On Mapleview Road at Corey Court, on the right when traveling north on Mapleview Road.
Cleveland Hill Union Free School District. In memory of the fifteen children who perished and the many others who suffer as a result of the tragic fire that occurred at this site on March 31, 1954. — — Map (db m203722) HM
On Broadway (New York State Route 130) east of Ellicott Road, on the right when traveling east.
On this site was located one of the early toll booths for the Buffalo - Batavia Plank Road laid out by Joseph Ellicott, and the plank road towards Lancaster and Alden. The toll was later moved west about 400 feet. It was abandoned in the early . . . — — Map (db m81421) HM
On Como Park Boulevard at Indian Road, on the right when traveling west on Como Park Boulevard.
Site of Underground Railway Station ——•—— Sterling Ely, and his brother, L. Sheldon Ely, both Abolitionists, operated an Underground Rail- way Station, between the years 1850 and 1863. At least 26 escaping black . . . — — Map (db m82308) HM
On Broadway (New York State Route 130) at Union Road (Route 277) on Broadway.
The original site of Forks Hose Company #2 established Oct 11th 1911 and later the site of the Forks Hotel, famous for Eddie Fechter's magic. — — Map (db m81420) HM
On Aero Drive south of Ellicott Creek Road, on the right when traveling south.
Dedicated, June 17th. 1962,
to the valor of the American
and British soldiers, and
the peace which has
long endured.
V.F.W. Post 2429
Commander
Charles J. Weber — — Map (db m226773) WM
This tablet is erected by the Buffalo Historical Society in honor of the American and British soldiers of the War of 1812 who died in the military hospital at Williamsville, New York and were buried here in 1814 and 1815. — — Map (db m74884) HM WM
