. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. le late in December, 1918,but owing to infirmities could not ascend thestairs leading to the board room. He did,however, attend the annual banquet of theboard, and made a characteristic speech, whichhe regarded as his farewell to official countylife, although he was continued assistant clerkas long as he lived. The village of Fredonia lies in the heart ofthe grape belt. The first settlement in Fre-donia by a white man was made in 1804, nearthe Beebe place, on Risley street. The Indianshad named the stream which flowed by hiscabin Gon-no
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. le late in December, 1918,but owing to infirmities could not ascend thestairs leading to the board room. He did,however, attend the annual banquet of theboard, and made a characteristic speech, whichhe regarded as his farewell to official countylife, although he was continued assistant clerkas long as he lived. The village of Fredonia lies in the heart ofthe grape belt. The first settlement in Fre-donia by a white man was made in 1804, nearthe Beebe place, on Risley street. The Indianshad named the stream which flowed by hiscabin Gon-no-do-wao, meaning in the Senecatongue, flowing through the hemlocks; hepronounced it Can-a-da-wa, and this was thename of the little settlement beside the streamwhich flowed beneath the hemlocks, until thefirst newspaper, The Chautauqua Gazette,appeared in 1817, dated at Fredonia. In 1829the village was legally incorporated, then contained from 600 to 700 inhabi-tants and was the largest village in Chau-tauqua county. Concerning the name Fre-. TOWNS—POM FRET 219 donia, the following is taken from MorsesUniversal Geography, published in Bostonin 1812. The name Fredonia is not mentionedin the first edition published in 1789, nor inan edition published in 1804. This extract isfrom the sixth edition: Fredonia, a generic name proposed to be given tothe territory now called by the descriptive name of theUnited States of America, including the annexed terri-tory of Louisiana. Its extreme length is upwards of2,000 miles. Extreme breadth 1,500 miles. It is esti-mated to contain two million square miles or aboutfour-fifths as many as all contained in all is twice the size of the Chinese Empire, which sup-ports upwards of 300 millions of inhabitants, andRussia excepted, is by far the largest territory onearth whose inhabitants live under the same govern-ment. The Mississippi river divides Fredonia nearly in thecenter from north to south. She has a sea coast ofmany t
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