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A Gowanda Timeline
Snippets from the history of a small town.
1820 - The first cemetery in Gowanda is established. Ruth Aldrich, mother of Turner Aldrich, dies and is buried on a knoll west of Buffalo Street, near Seneca Street. Second to be buried is Noble Weller, a young schoolmaster fatally stricken with typhoid.
1848 - The Village of Gowanda encompasses 746 acres; the population is 844 with 187 families.
Sept. 14, 1861 - Company A of the 64th Regiment, New York Volumteers, is recruited and known as Gowanda Company throughout the Civil War; 115 men are in the company when it marches away to war.
1962 - Gowanda Ambulance Service Inc. forms.
1965 - Katherine Casey and Nancy Sage are recipients of the Research Participation in Science Program conducted by Roswell Par Memorial Institute.
1965 - Hamot Hospital School of Nursing in Erie, PA, and Gowanda State Hospital sign an affiliation agreement, Hamot nursing students will attend a 12-week course of study in psychiatric nursing.
1965 - The Gowanda School Board considers installing a tennis court.
1965 - The Hollywood Theater pipe organ is restored by members of the Association of Theater Organ Enthusiasts.