Cadiz is a hamlet in the town of Franklinville in Cattaraugus County, NY. It was a station on what would become the Buffalo line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. An 1879 history of Cattaraugus County described Cadiz:
The village is located on the west side of Ischua Creek, one mile and a half south from Franklinville. The first settler at the corners was John Warner, in about 1808 or 1809. John McNall and Howland Washburn, about 1816, a little south on the road leading to the grist-mill. McNall built a saw-mill on the creek in 1818. Tilly Gilbert came into the settlement in 1825, built the first store, and erected a carding-machine. In 1826, John McNall built a tavern, and Elijah Hyde moved to this place and established a store in 1830. The village contains a post- office, a church (Methodist), store, grocery, school – house, saw- and planing-mill, cheese-box factory, cooper-shop, clothes-pin factory, blacksmith-shop, and about one hundred inhabitants.
I can find no photos of the station or even where it was located. It is listed as a flag stop in a 1908 timetable but a 1910 postcard shows the railroad tracks through the hamlet with no obvious station. It may have been a platform or even that the train just dropped people off at the point where the railroad crossed what is now the Salamanca Sugartown Road.
History
The first railroad through Cadiz was the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway, formerly the Buffalo and Washington Railway, who built their line in 1872. The line was operated by the BNY&P (1872 – 1887), the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (1887 – 1895), the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway (1895 – 1900), the Pennsylvania Railroad (1900 – 1968), the Penn Central Railroad (1968 – 1976), Conrail (1976 – 1999) and the Norfolk Southern Railroad (1999 – present).
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- Wikipedia. “Franklinville, New York“