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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 69 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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village of See also:Chautauqua See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., about 45 M. S.W. of See also:Buffalo, and 3 M. from See also:Lake See also:Erie. Pop. (1900) 4127; (1905, See also:state See also:census) 5148; (1910 census) 5285. Fredonia is served by the See also:Dunkirk, See also:Allegheny Valley & See also:Pittsburg railway, which connects at Dunkirk, 3 m. to the N., with the Erie, the Lake See also:Shore & See also:Michigan See also:Southern, the New York, See also:Chicago & St See also:Louis, and the See also:Pennsylvania See also:railways; and by electric railway to Erie, Buffalo and Dunkirk. It is the seat of a State Normal School. The See also:Darwin R. See also:Barker public library contained 9700 volumes in 1908. Fredonia is situated in the See also:grape-growing region of western New York, is an important See also:shipping point fc, grapes, and has large grape-See also:vine and See also:general nurseries. The making of See also:wine and of unfermented grape-juice are important See also:industries of the village. Among other manufactures are canned goods, See also:coal dealers' supplies, and patent medicines. The first See also:settlement here was made in 1804, and the See also:place was called Canandaway until 1817, when the See also:present name was adopted.

The village was incorporated in 1829. Fredonia was one of the first places in the See also:

United States, if not the first, to make use of natural See also:gas for public purposes. Within the village limits, near a See also:creek, whose See also:waters showed the presence of gas, a well was sunk in 1821, and the See also:supply of gas thus tapped was sufficient to See also:light the streets of the village. Another well was sunk within thevillage limits in 1858. About 1905 natural gas was again obtained by deep drilling near Fredonia and came into general use for See also:heat, light and See also:power. In the Fredonia Baptist See also:church on the 14th of See also:December 1873 a Woman's See also:Temperance See also:Union was organized, and from this is sometimes dated the beginning of the Woman's See also:Christian Temperance Union See also:movement.

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