. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. olserected a frame building at Clear Creek which was alsoa house of public entertainment. William Graves kept the first tavern in French Creek,he building the first grist mill in the town, both in 1822. The village of Vermont, now Gerry, in the town ofGerry, was originally known as Bucklins Corners, fromthe fact that in 1820 James Bucklin opened a hotel there. The first hotel mentioned in the town of Harmonywas opened in Panama, in 1827, and later Jesse Smithbuilt a tavern on the corner, which was a hotel site un-til the present brick b


. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. olserected a frame building at Clear Creek which was alsoa house of public entertainment. William Graves kept the first tavern in French Creek,he building the first grist mill in the town, both in 1822. The village of Vermont, now Gerry, in the town ofGerry, was originally known as Bucklins Corners, fromthe fact that in 1820 James Bucklin opened a hotel there. The first hotel mentioned in the town of Harmonywas opened in Panama, in 1827, and later Jesse Smithbuilt a tavern on the corner, which was a hotel site un-til the present brick building was erected. William G. Sidney kept the Cattaraugus House atCattaraugus, in the town of Hanover, selling to Mack, whose daughter Elizabeth was married atthe Cattaraugus House in 1807 to Judge Richard Smith,theirs the first marriage in the town. William Sears is credited with erecting the first Innin Kiantone, at what was then Sears, now the villageof Kiantone; later he built another tavern on his farm,and there resided until his


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