Water Valley is a small village in Erie County just outside of Hamburg, NY. It was a station on the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad which became the Buffalo and Southwestern Railroad which, in turn, became the Buffalo and Southwestern Branch of the Erie Railroad.
The station was located on the west side of the tracks just south of where South Creek Road crosses the tracks.
Cover: Detail of a 1905 topographic map showing the route of the Erie Railroad (green) through Water Valley and Hamburg, NY. Author’s illustration from a topographic map.