Ashville, NY

Ashville, NY is a village in Chautauqua County. It was a station on the Erie Railroad, originally the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad.

An 1875 inventory of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad listed that station in Ashville as having a 16×66 foot 1 1/2 story wooden frame station that had a passenger room, a freight office, and a baggage room with a shingle roof. It was on more than 2 acres of property owned by the railroad and included a cattle pen and chute and a handcar shed.

The village was also served by the Chautauqua Traction company, which arrived in 1904.

A 1904 map showing the route of the Erie Railroad, in green, running west from Jamestown through the villages of Celoron, Lakewood, and Ashville, NY. The Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie Railroad, in blue, is shown running along the north side of Chautauqua Lake. Author’s illustration from a 1904 topographic map.