Clymer is a village in the southwest corner of Chautauqua County. It was a station on the Chautauqua Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The first railroad in Clymer was the Buffalo and Oil Creek Cross Cut Railroad, which was built in 1865.
A 1952 paper entitled “Clymer and its People – Then and Now” by Mrs. Effie W. Ruslink commented that:
Clymer was bonded for $20,000. shortly after the Civil War to assist the Buffalo and Oil Creek Cross Cut Railroad. The Company had received a charter in 1865 to connect Brocton with Corry, a distance of 43.2 miles. On June 8, 1878 the railroad was abandoned, but on January 7, 1879 it resumed operations and has been one of the greatest factors in the development of Clymer.