1992 The New York State Convention of Universalists has donated the land and buildings on this site to the Town of Concord for use as a public library or for other municipal purposes of benefit to its citizens. This site was the home of the First . . . — — Map (db m80702) HM
Springville native - Griffith Institute 1889, Cornell U All American - 1894, won 313 college football games while coaching ar Cornell, Carlisle, Georgia, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Stanford and Temple from 1895-1938. Invented: single and double wing . . . — — Map (db m80748) HM
Bertrand Chaffee Hospital on site of Chaffee Homestead "Using Homestead now occupied by myself and wife on East Hill....they shall establish therin a hospital, to be known as Bertrand Chaffee Hospital." From will of Bertrand Chaffee Hospital . . . — — Map (db m80781) HM
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior and is the gateway to 24 others in Springville's historic downtown. — — Map (db m80636) HM
Godard Town Hall was gifted to the Town of Concord by local benefactress Calista Goddard in 1902, to be utilized for an opera house and office space. With the gift came the promise from the Town that the building always be for public use. The . . . — — Map (db m80750) HM
Dedicated to the memory of Barry A. Bidwell, John Ellis, Bruce A. Crosby, Jr., Dennis R. Heinz - men of the Springville area who gave their lives in defense of freedom in the Vietnam War, 1961 † 1975. — — Map (db m80739) WM
The first religious group in the Town of Concord was organized as a Congregational church in November 1816, by Rev. John Spencer. John Russell, Deacon. Presbyterian Form adopted 1841. Present church built 1847, burned 1921, rebuilt 1922. — — Map (db m80637) HM
Christopher Stone, in 1807, for $1575, bought 787 acres of land in this area, including some of the village of Springville. His was the first settlement on this site. His son, Lucius, was the first white child born, in 1809, in the Town of Concord, . . . — — Map (db m80654) HM
In 1920 on this site, 74 N. Buffalo Street., Springville resident George Schuster (1873-1972) operated a Dodge Motor Car dealership. In 1908 George Schuster drove a Thomas Flyer to win the 169 day, 22,000 mile "Great Auto Race" from New York City . . . — — Map (db m80642) HM
Operation Enduring Freedom
Brian Baker, Springville, NY
Dedicated to those who have proudly served and to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. — — Map (db m80707) WM
[front] Our Honored Dead [right] In memory of the defenders of our country 1861-1865 [back] By valor and sacrifice, through unmeasured suffering and death, they preserved the honor and integrity of the nation and maintained the principle of . . . — — Map (db m80640) WM
Site of 4.7 acre millpond, 1870-1950. Source of power, ice, recreation with a nearby factory which produced chairs, wagons, iron, cheese, flour, woolen goods. Its waters quelled the great fires of 1879, 1894, 1946. — — Map (db m80703) HM
Incorporated 1827, opened 1830. The first high school in Erie County, New York, it was named Griffith Institute in 1867 for Archibald Griffith, donor of a Scholarship Fund. Final classes at this site were held in 1970. — — Map (db m80794) HM
Western terminus and station site of 10.8 Mile Springville and Sardinia Narrow Gauge rail line built in 1878, ending the stagecoach era for Springville. It carried passengers and agricultural goods to Buffalo via Chaffee in just four hours. — — Map (db m80674) HM
Bright Past, Brilliant Future. You are in the center of the Village of Springville, incorporated in 1834 to provide services for the growing manufacturing activities within the Town of Concord. This location was the former site of the Leland House . . . — — Map (db m80769) HM
Ever protect the freedoms for which they fought. Herman Burns, Arthur Smith, Samuel Bifarella, Wilson Spaulding, Carl Felton, Evertt Warner, Harry Leader, Merrill Thellefsen, George Lohrey, Robert Andrews. — — Map (db m80741) WM
