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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALAMANCA , a See also:

village in Cattaraugus See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in the township of Salamanca, about 52 M. S. by E. of See also:Buffalo. Pop. (1900), 4251, of whom 789 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910, See also:census), 5792. Salamanca is served by the See also:Erie, the Buffalo, See also:Rochester & See also:Pittsburg and the See also:Pennsylvania See also:railways, and by interurban electric lines connecting with See also:Olean, N. Y., See also:Bradford, Pennsylvania, and Little Valley (pop in 1910, 1368), the county-seat, about 8 m. N. The village is built on both sides of the Allegany See also:river. The agricultural and See also:industrial development of the region has been retarded by its being within the Allegany See also:Indian See also:Reservation (allotted originally to the See also:Seneca See also:Indians by the Big See also:Tree Treaty of 1798 and still including the valley of the Allegany river for several See also:miles above and below Salamanca); but See also:land is now held under a 99 See also:year See also:lease authorized by See also:Congress in 1892. The village is a railway centre and See also:division terminal, and has repair shops of the Erie and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railways. The first See also:settlement in the See also:district (which was included within the " See also:Holland See also:Purchase " of 1792-1793) was made in 1815 near the site of See also:West Salamanca (pop. in 1910, J30), 1 a M. W. of Salamanca, and in the same township.

Salamanca (until 1873 known as See also:

East Salamanca) was incorporated in 1879, taking its name from the township, which was erected in 1854 as See also:Buck Tooth Township and in 1862 was renamed in See also:honour of a See also:Spanish banker who was a large stockholder of the See also:Atlantic & See also:Great Western railway, built through the township this year, and later merged with the Erie railway. See See also:History of Cattaraugus County, New York (See also:Philadelphia, Pa., 1879).

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